When successful investment guru Herman Pretorius walked into the Icon office building in Cape Town in July 2012, he had only one thing on his mind: escape. His death and the murder of his partner would seemingly provide the way out he had so desperately sought, but for thousands of other South Africans, it was Read more
A Pyramid of Death the Multiple Crimes of Herman Pretorius – Episode 101 Read More »
In 1996, Robert Knuckle and journalist Ed Arnold published the true crime book, The Flying Bandit. The book tells the story of Gilbert Galvan Jr, a career criminal, who escaped from a US prison and fled to Canada only to embark on one of the most prolific bank robbery sprees in the country’s history. Now,
Bandit is Out Now! Catch Him If You Can. Read More »
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
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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 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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