Crime & Courts

Kelly Khumalo allegedly weaponised the law in her bid to get back at her former boyfriend, South African TV personality and musician, Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye, as they fought to have charges against him dismissed, his lawyers have claimed.

In the affidavit, purportedly written by former VBS chairperson, Tshifhiwa Matodzi, Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema and his deputy, Floyd Shivambu, are implicated in the looting of VBS through Sgameka Projects (PTY) LTD, a company registered under the name of Shivambu’s younger brother, Brian Shivambu.

A court in Kenya has awarded 10m shillings ($78,000; £61,000) in compensation to the widow of a prominent Pakistani journalist who was shot dead by police at a roadblock nearly two years ago.

Portia Modise, the former captain of South Africa's football team, has appealed to fans to help get her car back after she was hijacked outside her home in Soweto.

Controversial South African TV personality and musician Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye looks to have avoided another stint in prison after all charges were withdrawn by the state in the Joburg Magistrates Court on Thursday, 4 July.

Amapiano music blared from speakers while friends popped champagne on his casket as they bade farewell to Zimbabwean businessman Evans Katumba, who was kidnapped and later killed in South Africa in March this year.

SOUTH AFRICA - Songbird Kelly Khumalo has thanked fans for standing steadfastly behind her as the inquest into the death of the late South African footballer Senzo Meyiwa continues, with the judge presiding over the case saying it is now dragging ‘like the Orient Express.’

SOUTH AFRICA - What was meant to be a sedate pre-trial hearing in the Free State High Court in South Africa got an injection of life from convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester, after he claimed that he feared for his life and thus wanted to be sentenced to death immediately as the state had made his life a living hell in prison.

Notorious South African forex dealer Themba “Grootman” Selahle has been told by the courts to stop uploading X-rated content of his ex-girlfriend Gcinile Twala.

HARARE - A Rwandan national, Samuel Habimana, was brutally murdered in his home by armed robbers in Harare on Friday night. The incident has sent shockwaves through the Rwandan community, with many believing it was an assassination orchestrated by the regime of President Paul Kagame in Kigali.