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Following the harsh words of a Humansdorp magistrate as she denied bail to a man and his stepson on Wednesday, both charged with a host of sexual-related crimes, an Eastern Cape mother has been arrested.

First he abandoned his formal bail application, then he brought another one in August — but in a surprising turn of events, Sfundo Yekani made a startling confession in court admitting to killing the six-year-old son of his former lover.

Despite having previously told the court that she killed her boyfriend’s child out of revenge after he allegedly forced her to abort a previous pregnancy, court documents have contradicted Lesley-Ann Damon’s argument.

A mouse, a knife, a faulty TV decoder plug and a fit of temper — one or more of these bizarre factors led to the death of a mother at the hands of her husband.

Less than six months after she was denied bail after she allegedly made a startling confession to police about how she had murdered her boyfriend’s nine-year-old daughter with a shoelace, Lesley-Ann Damon appeared briefly in the Gqeberha high court on Monday.

A Rocklands man whose penis was cut off allegedly by the mother of a five-year-old girl who was raped and murdered, received a tongue lashing from a high court judge after he changed his legal representation for the fourth time on Thursday.

A Kariega woman appeared briefly in the Gqeberha commercial crimes court on Wednesday after handing herself over to the Hawks for allegedly defrauding a Technical Vocational Education and Training institution in the Garden Town of more than R1m.

A former Fidelity security official has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for her role in a brazen cash-in-transit heist.

So angry that he was being kept from seeing his child, Xolani Mkayi put on high heels and a wig, and then gunned down his ex-wife at her father’s funeral.

Upset that animated characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pluto were given sexual identities by Disney+, Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr made his feelings known on Facebook.