In 2015, visitors to Rhodes Park in Kensington, Johannesburg, approached the multi-acre greenbelt with caution — but during the day it was often filled with picnicking families and groups of youngsters enjoying the fresh air who didn’t always leave as soon as dusk fell. On October 17 that year, though, that would all change. Two Read more
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In this special crossover episode, Nicole Engelbrecht interviews author Ted Botha about his new true crime book Daisy De Melker: Hiding Among Killers in the City of Gold. This is a crossover to the interview I conducted on Jonathan Ball Publishing’s podcast Pagecast. Subscribe to Pagecast for more bookish content here. Content hosted by iono.fm
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In the early hours of 14 April 2013, the badly beaten body of a young woman was discovered on the streets of Woodstock. At the same time, on the other side of Cape Town, in a place that may have been a completely different world, a wealthy artist drove a brand-new Porsche into his garage
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In 1999, 14 year old Valencia Farmer went out with friends and never came home. She was stabbed 42 times and gang-raped in a derelict house near her Eerste River house on Sunday and left for dead. Valencia died in the Tygerberg Hospital about a day after she survived the attack in a derelict house
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What would you do if you were wrongly accused, worst still, wrongly convicted of a murder you had no involvement in? In 2003, Thembekile Molaudzi was faced with this exact predicament as he and several other men were handed down life sentences for a crime they did not commit. Content hosted by iono.fm SHOWNOTES:
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