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Jacaranda FM launches True Crime South Africa podcast in Afrikaans

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Jacaranda FM listeners (and other Afrikaans speakers) will now be able to listen to Mzansi’s most listened to true crime podcast, True Crime South Africa, in Afrikaans. Jacaranda FM has partnered with Nicole Engelbrecht – True Crime South Africa podcaster – to bring her wildly successful podcast to the Afrikaans community. Nicole Engelbrecht started her True Crime South Read more

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The Murder of Captain Anna-Marie Potgieter Episode 87

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When the body of Child Protection & Sexual Offences investigator Captain Anna-Marie Potgieter is discovered her colleagues arrest a man, believed to be her killer, within 48 hours. Potgieter, a member of the Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit, had earned the respect of her colleagues by “giving her life to the police”,

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The Murder of David Olyne Episode 86

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When the badly beaten and burned body of 23-year-old David Olyne was discovered at an abandoned pump station just outside Bella Vista in Ceres in the Western Cape, it immediately became clear his murder had been a rage-filled attack. Olyne was buried at his home in Williston, Northern Cape. He had worked at the Family

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The Serial Crimes of Brydon Brandt Episode 84

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When Brydon Brandt was arrested in 1997 in connection with the death of his friend and roommate, police had no idea they had arrested a serial killer. Within hours of the suspect being apprehended, he confessed to a string of unsolved murders — and it became clear he had specifically targeted sex workers. While this

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The Murder of Michaela Williams Episode 83

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When Steven Fortune was released on parole for the brutal rape and attempted murder of an eight-year-old child, his victim’s mother was assured that the department of correctional services was keeping an eye on him. This would prove to be wholly untrue when 12-year-old Michaela Williams disappeared from Pelikan Park in January 2020 and was

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