Eighteen-year-old Johan Nel was well known in Skierlik, an informal settlement near Swartruggens in the North West. The young man would visit the community regularly to sell chickens he reared on his parents’ Swartruggens smallholding. So on January 14 2008, when Nel pulled his father’s bakkie up to the local spaza shop, got out and Read more
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In 1991, four provinces across South Africa experienced disturbingly similar murders across a short space of time. Soon, police recognized that they were on the hunt for, not just one serial killer, but a pair of them. Though the thought of one serial predator on the prowl is frightening enough, when the rarest phenomenon happens
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In 1927, South Africa was introduced to a new type of crime – spree killing – when Stephanus Swart went on a rampage that would scar his community for decades. Police pursued Swart one day after he fired a shot at his neighbour, Mr Lourens, on 3 May 1927 for no apparent reason. Stephanus Andries
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