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At 117 years old and still kicking, “Oom Jan” Steenberg of Colchester was celebrated as the guest of honour at the finale of the annual Senior Citizen of the Year (SCOTY) awards.

Ashamed and angered after losing his job and suspecting that his former girlfriend was spreading rumours about him and had cheated on him, Sfundo Yekani wanted to hurt the mother of three so badly that he killed her son. Yekani, 33, admitted to strangling Thabang Klaas, 6, out of revenge.

A senior correctional services official who allegedly introduced murder accused Arnold Terblanche to a man pretending to be a high-ranking police officer to help with his legal woes is on “alternative placement” pending an internal investigation.

A New Brighton traditional healer took the stand in the Gqeberha high court on Thursday testifying in his own defence for his alleged hand in the murder of SANDF officer Phumza Skade.

The sole-surviving robbery accused in the bloody shootout at a Gqeberha bakery has claimed cellphone and vehicle tracking placed him near the scene of the crime because he had been driving around looking for the firearm his cousin — killed in the crossfire — had stolen from his father.

More than R552,000 in cash and a car — alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche did not spare a cent as he allegedly tried to bribe his way out of jail.

A decision by the defence to alleviate the pressure on the magistrate hearing alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche’s bail application based on new facts resulted in the matter being postponed to Friday.

A man who bludgeoned an 80-year-old to death with an iron and subsequently staged a scene to distance himself from the murder, confessed to his crimes on Monday.

Aware that they were being robbed after five men entered the Le Bon Bakery in Central brandishing firearms, the manager kept her composure and did what she was instructed to do.

Details of how alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche conspired to have his co-accused murdered and bribed officials, including judges, are expected to be heard on Tuesday when the state will read into the record an affidavit by the investigating officer.