16 MAY 2025

FOUR MEN SENTENCED TO EIGHT LIFE TERMS AND 60 YEARS FOR MURDER AND ARSON

Stilfontein, South Africa- The Stilfontein Regional Court sitting in Klerksdorp has sentenced Mbulelo Suswana (34), Sandile Oliphant (25), Matjaleng Mbipha (27) and Tebogo Moshane (23) to two life imprisonment each for their involvement in the brutal murders of Xolile Nxamakele, aged 28, and Nkululeko Paraffin, aged 25. Additionally, each accused was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment for arson. The four were further declared unfit to possess firearms.

16 MAY 2025

NPA WELCOMES SCA DISMISSAL OF DR MAGUDUMANA’s DEPORTATION APPEAL

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissing the deportation appeal by Dr Nandipha Magudumana which was delivered today, 16 May 2025. We have also noted the minority judgment upholding the appeal. In June 2023, Judge Loubser dismissed Dr Magudumana’s application for her arrest and deportation from Tanzania in April 2023 to be declared unlawful and set aside.

16 MAY 2025

ZIMBABWEAN NATIONAL SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR RAPE

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) welcomes the sentence of life imprisonment for rape handed down by the Pretoria Magistrates’ Court to a Zimbabwean national, Mulero Nyangero (32), from Pretoria West. He was further sentenced to 5 years' direct imprisonment for robbery with aggravating circumstances. The court ordered that the sentences should run concurrently, and he be declared unfit to possess a firearm.

15 May 2025

RAPIST SENTENCED TO EIGHT LIFE TERMS FOR CRIMES COMMITTED IN 2010

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14 May 2025

PARENTS SENTENCED FOR KILLING THEIR 1-YEAR-OLD CHILD

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) welcomes the sentences handed down by the Pretoria North Magistrates' Court to a couple from Soshanguve: Joseph Molwana (25), a Mozambican national, and Zanele Njobe (20).

13 MAY 2025

TWO LIFE TERMS AND 13 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR GRANDMOTHERS’ KILLER