Dillon Morakile has appeared in the Galeshewe District Court, on a charge of robbery with aggravating circumstances. The 27-year-old is accused of having robbed the Post Office Branch in Mankurwaneng, near Kimberley. It is alleged that on the day of the commissioning of the crime, the accused together with his accomplice, entered the Post Office and pointed employees with firearms.

The  High Court of South Africa Gauteng Local Division, Johannesburg granted all four police officers that were accused of killing Mthokozisi Ntumba during protests by Witwatersrand University students in March 2021 a discharge, in terms of section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act. 

The Pietermaritzburg High Court sentenced Shane Steven Boucher (38), to an effective 25 years imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty to the murders of Rita Westfahl (76), and her daughter, Carol Lesley Westfahl (58), in May 2022. Boucher also pleaded guilty to theft. Boucher knew the women for 15 years, as they lived near his mother’s house in the Oribi area, outside Pietermaritzburg.