01 August 2025
HUSBAND SENTENCED TO 27 YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT FOR RAPE AND ASSAULT OF HIS WIFE
Groblershoop, Northern Cape – The Groblershoop Regional Court has sentenced a 49-year-old man to an effective 27 years of direct imprisonment for the rape and assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm (GBH) of his wife.
01 AUGUST 2025
LIFE AND 15 YEARS IMPRISONMENT FOR ROBBERY AND MURDER
The Ulundi Regional Court has sentenced Simphiwe Mdletshe (34) to life and 15 years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to the robbery and murder of a metered taxi driver in October 2024. The incident took place along the R66 road in Ulundi.
01 AUGUST 2025
LIFE AND 20 YEARS FOR RAPE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER
The Dundee Regional Court has sentenced a 44-year-old man to life imprisonment and 20 years imprisonment for the rape and two counts of attempted murder he committed in April 2023. The accused and the complainant were in a love relationship, and they lived together at the complainant’s home.
31 July 2025
NPA WELCOMES FORFEITURE OF DANIEL HUGO SMIT’S VEHICLE TO THE STATE
Cape Town, South Africa, The National Prosecuting Authority welcomes the forfeiture to the State of Daniel Hugo Smit’s vehicle, which he used to pursue Jerobijn Van Wyk, knock him over and kidnap him before brutally murdering him. The order was granted following the Asset Forfeiture Unit’s (AFU) decision to apply for a preservation and a forfeiture order as it believed the vehicle was an instrumentality of the offences he was convicted of and sentenced on 05 November 2024.
30 JULY 2025
SETH NTHAI PLEADS GUILTY AND IS SENTENCED FOR SOLICITING BRIBE
Johannesburg – Senior Counsel, Seth Nthai, has been convicted and sentenced by the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division in Johannesburg, after pleading guilty to corruption charges. Nthai admitted to soliciting a R5 million bribe from Italian businessman Mario Marcenaro during a meeting in Sandton on 10 October 2009. The bribe was intended to influence the outcome of the Piero Foresti and others vs the Government of the Republic of South Africa international arbitration case.
30 JULY 2025
MAN SENTENCED TO LIFE FOR RAPE OF MINOR WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Pretoria, Gauteng – The Pretoria Magistrates’ Court has sentenced Thabo Xolani Masoka (32) to life imprisonment for raping an 11-year-old girl with Down syndrome. Masoka resided in the same block of flats as the victim and her mother.