Lynn Williams

Four Lesotho nationals who murdered a Bonnievale farmer were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Western Cape High Court on Thursday.

Three of the seven accused charged with a string of hit murders related to life insurance payouts were granted bail in the Kariega Magistrate's Court on Thursday.

Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Gary Van Niekerk emerged victorious in his legal battle against the City Manager Noxolo Nqwazi, that played out in the Gqeberha High Court on Wednesday afternoon.

Police in Gqeberha are still searching for the suspects who severed an 61-year-old man's ear, during a home invasion in Despatch. Police spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu says the man's wife was awoken by noises and a flashlight shining in their yard in the early hours of Friday morning.

The man who brutally murdered a Gqeberha physiotherapist, Marolien Schmidt, did so for the mere R600 he gained from selling her cell phone.

The wife of an Eastern Cape farmer appeared briefly in the Kariega Magistrates Court earlier today in connection with her husband's murder. Natasha Van Eck allegedly shot her husband, Gideon, in self-defence at the couple's farm just outside of Kariega, in November last year.

The Magistrate in the R24 million fraud trial against Nelson Mandela Bay's City Manager, Noxolo Nqwazi, and her co-accused have turned down an application to recuse herself as the presiding officer in the case.

A couple on the verge of divorce' elaborate murder plots to have each other killed, each relying on the woman's drug-addicted boyfriend who eventually allegedly sided with her husband, was laid bare in the 26-page charge sheet, in the Vicki Terblanche murder trial.

The case against a Paradise Beach father and his stepson, accused of more than 700 charges, including rape, incest, sexual grooming, bestiality, and the sexual exploitation of children, was called before the Gqeberha High Court on Wednesday.