Look: Durban pupil raises funds for leukemia awareness

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Skye Meaker is not your average teenager - last year he won the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his portrait of a leopard.

Bail judgment expected in Pete Mihalik murder case

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Judgment in the bail application of three men accused of carrying out a hit on top advocate Pete Mihalik is expected to be delivered in the Cape Town Magistrate's ...

New insulin pump has hugely helped this SA family deal with type 1 diabetes

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The latest Medtronic insulin pump is streamlining diabetes management, and lessening the burden on families trying to cope with type 1 diabetes.

WATCH: Bo-Kaap residents describe horror knife attack on French UCT student

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A 20-year-old French woman studying at UCT is recovering in hospital after she was stabbed and mugged in the historic Bo-Kaap.

Bo-Kaap safety in spotlight after French tourist's brutal stabbing

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Residents of Cape Town's historic Bo-Kaap say muggings in the famous suburb, formerly known as the Malay Quarter, have become a daily occurrence.

'I guess she was killed in random attack': Rob Packham takes stand

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A composed Rob Packham took to the stand where he emphatically denied any involvement in the murder of his wife Gill Packham.

Cape pastor sentenced to 50 years behind bars for rape, murder

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A former Cape Flats pastor convicted of murder, rape, crimen injuria and theft was sentenced to an effective fifty years in jail on Monday

WATCH: Rob Packham asked a colleague to lie for him, court hears

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Murder-accused Rob Packham allegedly asked a work colleague to lie about his whereabouts on the day his wife disappeared

Cape pastor expected to enter into plea bargain for rape, murder

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The former pastor was arrested in 2017 for the murder of Aniesa Bardien, 36, after she broke off their engagement.

Judge crushes murder accused Rob Packham's bid for bail appeal

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Western Cape High Court Judge Elizabeth Baartman has refused alleged wife murderer Rob Packham's application for leave to appeal the cancellation of his bail.

Axe murderer Henri Van Breda to appeal sentence by next week

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Lawyers for Henri Van Breda will file papers petitioning the SCA to grant leave to appeal his conviction and sentence by Monday next week.

Novella family insists 'Diego is not the devil'

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The family of convicted murderer Diego Dougherty Novella says he is not the "devil" or the "playboy billionaire the media has made him out to be".

Van Breda case fits like a puzzle - judge

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'One rarely gets a case as strong as this against the accused'

Emotions run high as Gabriela's heartbroken mom testifies in Novella case

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The mother of murder victim Gabriela Kabrins Alban has described her heartbreak and desire to die after losing her only child.

Convicted murderer Diego Novella was an outcast, court hears

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A psychologist testifying in the trial of convicted murderer, Guatemalan national Diego Novella, described him as the "black sheep" of the family.

Judge loses his cool as Novella murder trial drags on

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Western Cape High Court Judge Vincent Saldanha demanded progress in the trial of Guatemalan murder accused Diego Novella.

Novella must be placed in hospital section of Pollsmoor - judge

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Judge Saldanha said Diego Novella must be placed in the hospital section of Pollsmoor and the administration of his medication should be checked on.

Trial postponed as psychiatrist set to assess Novella

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The trial of Guatemalan murder accused Diego Novella has again been stalled as a private psychiatrist will only be able to assess him on Wednesday.

Marli #VanBreda will never be the same again, says State

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Marli Van Breda has to grow up alone with the knowledge that her own brother killed her family, argued the State.

#VanBreda ruling: Testimony accepted Henri's wounds were self-inflicted

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Judge Siraj Desai has accepted key testimony by Dr Marianne Tiemersma that triple axe murder accused Henri Van Breda's wounds were self-inflicted.

#VanBreda ruling: 'No security breach evidence, conduct inexplicable'

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Western Cape High Court Judge Siraj Desai is delivering judgment in the trial of Henri Van Breda who pleaded not guilty to the axe murders of his parents and his ...

Van Breda murder case postponed, Desai still the judge

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The Western Cape High Court has postponed judgment in the trial of triple murder accused Henri Van Breda to May.

#VanBreda: Judgment set down for April 23

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The mammoth trial of 23-year-old triple murder accused Henri Van Breda is finally drawing to an end after 66 days.

#VanBreda: Judge pinpoints 'highly frenzied, personal nature of attacks'

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This is what "concerns" Judge Siraj Desai as he weighs up versions of State and accused as trial of triple murder accused Henri van Breda nears end.

#VanBreda: Judge concerned by 'highly frenzied nature of attack'

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The nature of the attacks on the Van Breda family had been "highly frenzied" and personal in nature, carried out with intent to kill.