Stranger danger is a cliche for a reason.
A decline in social conditions like poverty and unemployment further exacerbates violence and has a direct bearing on the lives of children.
Silvia López Gayubas, 48, was found bound, gagged and stabbed in the boot of a car on Wednesday night.
Nadine Terblanche and her nine-year-old son Ruandré Vorster were brutally murdered in their home in Randhart, Alberton, in November last year.
Kirsten Kluyts was brutally murdered on October 29, while she was jogging at George Lea Park in Parkmore, participating in a MyRun event.
This story of a 40-year-old NHS surgeon who was killed in South Africa on August 3 is gut-wrenching.
There is grief, but there is also the urgent reckoning with the questions of how to keep women safe from the hands of abusive men.
A sicko self-described as the “Zombie Hunter”, who would drive around in a car spattered with fake blood, has been sentenced to death for the brutal murder of two women around 30 years ago.
The gruelling reality is that Jeremy Gordin was senselessly and brutally murdered, seemingly over a TV and his car, which were the only items stolen on that fateful day.
Dr Jaco Putter, a beloved Pretoria doctor was allegedly murdered in his Nieuw Muckleneuk home recently.
Shaye Groves, who was found guilty of viciously stabbing her boyfriend to death, had a soft spot for serial killers.
All four victims were stabbed to death as they slept in an off-campus house on King Road, located near the university’s sorority and fraternity houses.