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The National Prosecuting Authority says the death of the last apartheid-era security policeman implicated in the abduction and murder of the Cradock Four, is a setback for their quest to ensure justice for apartheid-era crimes.

A 26-year-old Eastern Cape man is in custody for the brutal murder of his 90-year-old grandmother who died in a house fire in Zisoyini Location at Butterworth.

Since 1995, South Africans who gained citizenship in another country lost their South African citizenship automatically. A case brought by the Democratic Alliance challenging this has been successful in the Supreme Court of Appeal.

The criminal trial of Eastern Cape Community Safety Director, Neil Naidoo, who is facing corruption charges among others, is set to start in January next year.

Nine women, including model and presenter Janice Dickinson, have filed a sexual assault suit against the disgraced former comedian  after Nevada abolished its statute of limitations for civil cases.

A man from North West accused of Tax fraud amounting to R19 million appeared in the Leeudoringstad Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Fifty-nine-year-old Jacobus Opperman and the corporate body he represents, are facing 93 charges of fraud and 29 of contravening the Tax Administration Act.

A former prison warder convicted of the murder of his ex-wife tried to hang himself in the holding cells moments before hearing his sentence of life imprisonment in the East London `High Court on Wednesday.

A dog from Mossel Bay that went missing after its owners were involved in a fatal car crash in on Tuesday was found during a dramatic rescue effort in a mountainous area near Meiringspoort.

Six members of the so-called Chitiyo rhino-poaching gang received lengthy jail sentences in a landmark judgment in the Makhanda High Court on Wednesday.