One week ago, four young brothers from Polokwane were kidnapped on their way to school. Their father, a wealthy businessman, awaits a ransom demand as it seems clear that the Moti family have been targeted by an organized crime ring. In this minisode, we discuss kidnapping for ransom in South Africa. Content hosted by iono.fm Read more
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Between 1996 and 1998 a serial predator was stalking Thohoyandou, Limpopo. He started out with murders framed as robberies, but soon moved on to his real target young lovers meeting up for secret tryst. Content hosted by iono.fm SHOWNOTES: Host: Nicole Engelbrecht Producer: Nicole Engelbrecht Music: Snippet from Prime Circle’s Evidence We would love to
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Focus on femicide and female victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse is often significant, but then the victim is a man, it’s difficult to get the public and sometimes even the justice system to treat the crime with the same level of seriousness. In this week’s spotlight minisode, we discuss the recent second season
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On the 19th of July 2008, a young man stumbled into Westville, Durban police station. Mathias AKA Mathew Naidoo informed the police officers on duty that their presence was required at his girlfriend’s home in Thames street – her parents were dead. Riekie and Johnnie Lotter had been receiving death threats for several months and
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In this week’s minisode we discuss a family murder in Oranjeville, the conviction of baby Orderick Lucas’ murderer, and the escape from custody of Mohammed Nasir, who is accused of murdering his wife and 8-month-old baby. Oranjeville Family Murders The bodies of 80-year-old Johannes Van Vuuren and 58-year-old Dorothia Van Staden were discovered in Oranjeville,
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