Sbongile Nonyana brings you the latest crime news from South Africa.
Potchefstroom – Police have arrested eight people following a violent mob justice incident in Magogong village. The suspects, seven men and one woman aged 29 to 45, allegedly attacked a traditional healer after the body of a young girl was found in a pit on 20 October. Following her funeral, community members suspected the healer’s involvement and targeted her. The group reportedly kidnapped and assaulted her son before setting her house on fire. The healer escaped the flames but was fatally attacked by the mob. The suspects appeared in the Taung Magistrates’ Court on 28 October.
Polokwane – Limpopo police arrested Latifa Adams, 64, and Koashik Ishra Mistry, 54, for selling illegal medicines valued at R43,000. Police said neither could provide documents allowing them to dispense or sell the substances. They appeared in the Polokwane Commercial Crime Court, where they were each granted R5,000 bail. The case was postponed to 27 November for further investigation.
Welkom – Police are searching for five men who carried out a robbery in the town on 15 September. The suspects, all wearing blue overalls, entered a store and demanded cash from the owner. They fled with an undisclosed amount, and police have since launched a manhunt to track them down.
Polokwane – Tinashe Mapuweyi, 20, and Risca Malatji, 29, were sentenced to life in prison by the Polokwane High Court for killing security guard Masenyi Daniel Khosa, 68, in 2021. The court handed down an additional 15-year sentence for robbery. Mapuweyi also received a sentence for being an illegal immigrant. The pair left Khosa pinned under concrete lintels, and his body was found by colleagues the next day.
Pretoria – The North Gauteng High Court sentenced a 23-year-old woman to 25 years in prison for orchestrating a brutal family massacre in Mmakau in 2016. At just 15 years old, she hired her two cousins to murder her family, including her police constable father, her nurse mother, her pregnant 19-year-old sister, and her six-year-old brother. She and her cousins were convicted of four counts of murder.
Madikana – Limpopo police are on the lookout for a suspect in connection with the death of a 16-year-old Grade 10 learner from Mohodi, whose body was found in bushes on 19 October with no visible injuries. The last person seen with the victim was a male resident from Koning Krans Village.
Pictured above: Police.
Source: File
