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Killer Cop's Chilling threat
Two days before he murdered her daughter a police sergeant phoned Mavis Sokutu to tell her: "You will hear about your daughter's death soon." Full Story...

After killing the daughter the policeman went on to hijack three cars, shot two other people, one of them a police officer, before he turned the gun on himself.

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Pupil Stabbed to Death

A 17-year-old pupil at the EE Monese Secondary School in Senekal was expected to appear in the local magistrate's court on Thursday for allegedly stabbing a schoolmate to death in class. News report

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Man Killed- wife injured during robbery

A businessman was killed and his wife wounded by armed robbers who opened fire on them during a robbery at their tuck shop in Palmridge, east of Johannesburg
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R300 million ($39 million) missing from Social Development Department

An investigation commissioned by KwaZulu-Natal's Social Development Department had revealed corruption involving R300 million
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Trucker killed after hijacking

A 45-year-old truck driver was shot and killed after his truck was hijacked near Vosloorus
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