On the 17th of October 2013, 15-year-old Lee Adams set off to the local store to buy a loaf of bread. When he didn’t return home and then, a horrific discovery was made in a local abandoned school, the Adams family was about to thrust into a torrent of grief and devastation. Fifteen-year-old Lee Adams Read more
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On the 18th of October 2007 South African music icon Lucky Dube was murdered in a botched hijacking. The 43-year-old musician was shot by three gunmen as he dropped off his son in the Rosettenville suburb of Johannesburg. Born in 1964 to an impoverished family in northeastern Mpumalanga Province, Lucky Dube released his first album
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On the 5th of July 2018, Hlompho Mohapi Koloi set out for a job interview. She would never return home. The investigation into her murder would reveal not just the coldblooded reasons behind her own death, but also how a man the community trusted had been fooling them all along. In July 2018, 25-year-old mother
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For almost a year between 2005 and 2006, Moffat Park was terrorised by a serial killer. The man who moved unseen among the community became a phantom to feared as victim after victim fell at his hands, but when his masked was pulled off, the very mundane truth of his identity would perhaps be even
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On March 1 2021, the Saldanha Bay harbour was swarming with police officers. The object of their attention was a fishing and small-cargo vessel – The Windward – which had docked in Saldanha two months earlier. Aboard the boat, special operations officers would uncover the Western Cape’s largest haul of cocaine up to that point
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