COURT FINDS THAT NO ONE CAN BE CRIMINALLY CHARGED FOR THE HIGHGATE HOTEL MASSACRE

02 December 2025

COURT FINDS THAT NO ONE CAN BE CRIMINALLY CHARGED FOR THE HIGHGATE HOTEL MASSACRE

“Even though the Highgate attack counts among the most devastating incidents of its nature at the time, we are no closer to complete answers more than 30 years later. The attack was meticulously planned and callously executed with the precision of highly trained operatives,” Judge Denzil Potgieter concluded at the closing of the inquest into the 01 May 1993 Highgate Hotel massacre.

LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR MURDERERS

 28 NOVEMBER 2025

LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR MURDERERS

Three men, Sibongiseni Mtshali (54), Thuthukani Mbuyisa (45) and Nhlanhla Makhoba (34) were sentenced to a term of life imprisonment each by the Nquthu Regional Court for the murder they committed in May 2022 in the Luvisi area.

FREE STATE FATHER SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR RAPING DAUGHTER 

28 NOVEMBER 2025 

FREE STATE FATHER SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR RAPING DAUGHTER 

Ficksburg, Free State - A 45-year-old father from Meqheleng near Ficksburg in the Eastern Free State has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape of his 6-year-old daughter by the Ficksburg Regional Court. The court heard that on 4 September 2024, the victim was at home with her mother and father, and the mother left the child with the father when she left for work, leaving the child with her father. 

LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR MAN WHO RAPED ELDERLY WOMAN 

28 NOVEMBER 2025 

LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR MAN WHO RAPED ELDERLY WOMAN 

A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nquthu Regional Court following his conviction for the rape of a 61-year-old woman in the Mondlo area in May 2024. 

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