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  • It’s Sunday, 11 November 2012, when three people stroll into the Pretoria Art Museum on Wessels street in Pretoria, and stroll out again with six of South Africa’s most historic and valuable art works. Two days later, four of those pieces would be discovered in the most unlikely place…


    Thanks to my interviewees from Stephan Welz & Co: https://www.swelco.co.za/

     

    Sources:

    https://theworld.org/stories/2012-11-12/south-african-art-heist-thieves-steal-2m-worth-paintings-pretoria-art-museum

    https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2012-nov-12-la-fg-wn-south-africa-art-theft-2-million-20121112-story.html

    https://ewn.co.za/2012/11/14/Mystery-still-surrounds-art-heist

    https://ewn.co.za/2012/11/13/Police-hunt-for-artwork-thieves

    https://ewn.co.za/2012/11/12/Cameras-may-help-catch-R15m-art-thieves

    https://ewn.co.za/2012/11/13/Police-probe-art-heist-tip-offs

    https://ewn.co.za/2012/11/13/Stolen-iconic-art-will-likely-turn-up---SAHRA

    https://ewn.co.za/2012/11/11/Robbers-strike-Pretoria-museum

    https://www.whistleblowing.co.za/art-theft-in-pretoria-informer-and-whistleblower-help-police/

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/top-sa-artist-behind-r175m-theft-1422232#.UKM4xWdacmh

    https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2012/11/pretoria-art-museum-in-south-africa.html

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-20311861

    https://www.sartle.com/blog/post/from-botched-restoration-to-selfie-destruction-5-of-the-worst-art-fails

     

     

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  • August 30th 2019 was a regular day for Leighandre Jegels and her mom Ryta. The two were making their way to a boxing gym in East London, when a car started driving erratically behind them. In it was Bulelani Manyakama, Leighandre's abusive ex-boyfriend...


    Domestic abuse resources:

    https://genderjustice.org.za/helpline-numbers/

    https://help.unhcr.org/southafrica/welcome/violence/

    https://www.saferspaces.org.za/organisation/entry/rise-against-domestic-violence-sa

    https://www.powa.co.za/POWA/ or 011-642-4345

    https://genderjustice.org.za/

    Tears foundation:  Text *134*7355# or email [email protected]

     

    SOURCES:

    https://www.iol.co.za/sport/opinion/baby-lee-such-a-sad-tragic-violent-loss-32553068

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/eastern-cape/leighandre-jegels-murder-accused-has-died-31719068

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-08-31-sa-world-champion-fighter-shot-dead-by-her-police-officer-boyfriend/

    https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2021-09-01-jegels-anniversary-invokes-painful-emotions/

    https://ewn.co.za/2019/09/14/leighandre-baby-lee-jegels-to-be-laid-to-rest

    https://www.all4women.co.za/1844257/news/south-african-news/slain-sa-boxing-champion-leighandre-baby-lee-jegels-laid-to-rest

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8qnOWEu9WA&t=464s

    https://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/2019-09-12-tears-flow-freely-for-champ-baby-lee/

    https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-09-11-fare-thee-well-leighandre-baby-lee-jegels-champ-forever/

    https://twitter.com/DrJessTaylor/status/1304327594989494273

    https://www.healthyplace.com/blogs/verbalabuseinrelationships/2012/07/how-abusers-gain-control

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  • It became known as the case of the body in the boot, abandoned in the parking lot of Montecasino, but there's a man behind that headline. In the wake of his wife's unexpected death, Dustan Blom meets exotic dancer Maruschka Robinson. He takes pity on her, offers her a lifeline, but Maruschka responds by taking advantage and - ultimately - his life.


    SOURCES:


    https://www.news24.com/News24/My-brothers-murder-has-left-us-shattered-Bloms-sister-20150818

    https://ewn.co.za/2015/08/20/Montecasino-killers-showed-no-remorse

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-star-south-africa-early-edition/20150821/281547994635253

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-star-south-africa-early-edition/20140117/281698317604539

    https://ewn.co.za/2013/11/08/dustan-blom-suspects-racked-up-r100000-bill

    https://www.news24.com/news24/cops-have-confession-for-montecasino-murder-20140326

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2014-03-26-montecasino-murder-fraud-cases-in-court/

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2013-10-03-body-in-boot-case-stripper-in-dock/

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2013-11-13-montecasino-boot-murder-uncovers-major-fraud-syndicate/

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-star-south-africa-late-edition/20140709/282574491181927

    https://www.news24.com/News24/Blom-a-broken-man-after-wifes-death-court-told-20150415

    https://www.news24.com/News24/Dustan-Blom-died-of-asphyxiation-forensic-pathologist-20150420

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/montecasino-murder-plotted-for-weeks-1851553

    https://truecrimesouthafrica.com/blog-the-body-in-the-boot/

    https://fourwaysreview.co.za/201043/verdict-on-the-body-in-the-boot/

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-star-south-africa-early-edition/20150416/281535109519363



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  • It’s February 21st, 2018, just after midnight, when three vehicles pull up outside the Ngcobo police station. One of them is a police van, but the gunmen that climb out are anything but police. They head into the station and gunfire shatters the quiet calm of a small village police station. As the new day dawned on the village of Ngcobo, six people have been fatally shot… and a standoff with the Mancoba Seven Angels Ministry is shaping up.


    SOURCES:

    https://www.news24.com/citypress/News/crl-goes-after-cult-like-churches-but-laments-a-lack-of-state-support-20180301

    https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/angels-of-death-its-been-a-year-but-the-pain-is-still-fresh-for-families-of-ngcobo-massacre-20190221

    https://ewn.co.za/2018/02/26/4-appear-in-court-over-ngcobo-police-killings

    https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2018-03-01-mancoba-4-of-7-killed-by-cops-innocent/

    https://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/2021-02-22-ngcobo-massacre-ghosts-still-walk-as-court-case-drags-on-past-third-anniversary/

    https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2020-03-02-mancoba-seven-angels-trial-judge-calls-on-police-to-use-modern-technology/

    https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/tag/ngcobo-police-station/page/2/

    https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ngcobo-church-suspects-court/

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-05-ngcobo-shooting-suspects-in-court-for-mzimkhulu-double-murder/

    https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2018-02-26-church-battlefield-prophesied/

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-03-15-police-scrub-away-mancoba-seven-angels-graffiti/

    https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2018-03-03-root-of-evil-in-police-massacre/

    https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/seven-angels-cult-members-in-court-for-police-station-massacre-20181105

    https://www.gov.za/speeches/home-affairs-conducts-audit-members-mancoba-seven-angels-ministry-documentation-4-mar-2018

    https://www.dailysun.co.za/News/pics-videos-seven-angels-trial-starts-20190903

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-02-26-ngcobo-killings-church-brother-turns-on-brother/

    https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/ngcobo-residents-still-feel-unsafe-three-years-after-massacre-of-police-officers/

    https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/mancoba-cult-kingpin-appears-in-court-on-rape-charge-20181101

    https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2018-02-26-we-didnt-know-say-church-followers/

    https://www.news24.com/News24/murdered-ngcobo-police-officers-identified-20180222

    https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/seven-angels-cult-leader-could-walk-free-as-npa-withdraws-rape-charges-20181206

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAwcmWthPa4&feature=youtu.be

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  • This is the first episode of It Happened Here for 2022. In the spirit of the new year, I’m declaring this the start of a new season. Yes, the numbering won’t make tonnes of sense, but neither does much in life so we’re just going to run with it. This episode covers the plot to murder one of South Africa's most lauded musical talents, Taliep Petersen - a plot cooked up by his own wife, Najwa.


    Please consider supporting The District Six Museum: https://www.districtsix.co.za/


    SOURCES:

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/amp/sunday-times/lifestyle/2007-06-24-taliep-petersena-tale-of-two-wives/

    http://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAWCHC/2008/64.pdf

    https://icaci.org/files/documents/ICC_proceedings/ICC2009/html/refer/20_5.pdf

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2020-05-15-podcast-a-killer-beside-me-the-murder-of-taliep-petersen/

    https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2008-05-06-najwa-petersen-was-demonic/

    https://www.mgia.co.za/taliep-kept-stabbing-secret-court-told/

    https://www.news24.com/news24/najwa-bad-blood-rumours-20071021

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/najwa-to-tell-her-story-400294

    https://mg.co.za/article/2008-04-10-how-detective-became-suspicious-of-najwa-petersen/

    https://mg.co.za/article/2008-07-30-najwa-fired-fatal-shot-lawyer-charges/

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/najwa-intruder-put-a-gun-on-my-head-410233

    https://mg.co.za/article/2008-12-02-court-finds-najwa-guilty-of-murder/

    https://www.news24.com/news24/weeping-najwa-called-me-20080424

    https://www.dailyvoice.co.za/news/taliep-petersens-killer-denied-parole-d7627ede-d682-4c46-927d-5faff90d7415

    https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/news/najwa-petersen-eligible-for-parole-in-20-months-accomplice-before-parole-board-this-week-3f5bc4a8-8876-4803-8f05-8be605e88a24

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/western-cape/correctional-services-confirms-taliep-petersens-killer-has-been-released-on-parole-9d9a181b-2322-49e5-b7e7-fee73246b22d

    https://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=17860#:~:text=District%20Six%20was%20the%20first,New%20Musical%2F1999%20in%20London.

    https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/08/guardianobituaries.obituaries

    https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2020-09-07-iconic-district-six-museum-faces-threat-of-closure-unless-love-letters-from-the-public-can-save-it/

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  • In January 2018, near New Hanover, a small burning patch of sugar cane caught the attention of a farmer out walking with his grandson. As he got closer, he realized that there was more to the fire. There were drag marks in the soil, the smell of petrol, and just a foot or into the field was a horrific sight, a charred body of a woman, one arm lifted up over her head – in what her mom will later describe as the dying swan pose. One hand remained untouched by the fire, her fingertips still glinting with sparkly nail polish. 


    www.patreon.com/ithappenedhere 


    SOURCES:

    https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-06-21-siam-lee-murder-rape-accused-dies-before-trial/

    https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2019-06-21-siam-lee-murder-rape-accused-dies-before-trial/

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/siam-lee-accused-also-raped-me-14452585

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/ex-fiancee-of-alleged-siam-lee-murderer-sounded-warning-seven-months-ago-12836671

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/the-sunday-independent/20180422/281496456884723

    https://www.iol.co.za/sunday-tribune/news/mixed-emotions-as-siam-lees-suspected-killer-reported-dead-27250682

    https://bradnathanson.co.za/2018/01/31/meet-the-private-eye-who-helped-find-siam-lees-alleged-killer/

    https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/pi-company-under-scrutiny-in-siam-lee-accused-bail-application-20180307

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2018-01-27-siam-lees-alleged-killer-linked-to-old-murder/

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/investigator-reveals-siam-lees-final-moments-as-murder-accused-dies-28767152

    https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/siam-lees-mother-cries-as-details-of-her-daughters-murder-emerge-in-court-20181114

    https://northglennews.co.za/150395/durban-high-court-siamlee-murder-trail-adjourned/

    https://northglennews.co.za/148170/siam-lee-murder-trial-adjourned-durban-high-court/

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  • The subject of today’s episode is Nkululeko Habedi – also known by his musical persona or nickname “Flabba.” Flabba’s case attracted a lot of media attention, because he was already famous as a member of the South African hip-hop collective Skwatta Kamp, and for his work as a solo artist. On the evening of March 8 2015, Flabba, his girlfriend Sindi and some of their friends, are all set for a night out at one of Joburg’s swankiest spots – The Sands, in Sandton. But the night would end in his death - a death that sparked a national debate about self defence versus premeditated murder...



    Sources:

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/i-was-there-the-night-flabba-was-killed-1911965

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/murder-shattered-flabbas-family-1995987

    https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/music/skwatta-kamp-hip-hop-shugasmakx-new-album-the-clap-song-flabba-nish/

    https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/entertainment/2015-03-14-flabba-crazy-gifted-loving2/

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/opinion-and-analysis/2015-03-15-obituary-nkululeko-flabba-habedi-rapper-who-found-art-in-the-ghetto/

    https://www.enca.com/south-africa/flabbas-girlfriend-tempers-were-high-fatal-stabbing

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2015-09-23-sindisiwe-and-flabba-how-love-affair-went-wrong/

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/if-flabba-didnt-die-sindi-would-be-dead-1949559

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/sindis-rights-infringed-says-lawyer-1915866

    https://roodepoortrecord.co.za/2015/09/17/day-8-flabba-trial-and-i-stabbed-him-2/

    https://www.all4women.co.za/490546/news/south-african-news/flabbas-girlfriend-felt-degraded-and-disrespected-by-him

    https://www.news24.com/News24/flabbas-killer-expected-longer-jail-term-20160311


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  • It’s the 2nd of March 2011 and, on the side of the road a middle-aged couple kneel in the sand, weeping. In front of them is a board hammered into the sand, a photograph of a young woman attached. Meters away reporters jostle to try and get a better shot. This ceremony is part of an ongoing story that has captured international headlines. The couple, Nilam and Vinod Hindocha, have come to grieve their beloved daughter, Anni Dewani - and to get to answers. Was Anni the random victim of a hijacking, or had her new husband Shrien Dewani conspired to have her murdered?


    Support the show on www.patreon.com/ithappenedhere or find us on Instagram and Facebook.


    SOURCES:

    ‘If I die I want you to know that I love you’

    Anni Dewani's sister: 'We will never find out the truth' - BBC News

    Anni Dewani's sister: I wish I told my sister to call her wedding off - Mirror Online

    Crime Stats: Concern as car hijackings hit 5-year high for Q4

    Crime stats: PowerPoint Presentation

    Dewani judge cleared of bias claims | News24

    Hijacking in South Africa: Hotspot areas and methods revealed

    In one of South Africa's most violent townships, a peace arrives - CSMonitor.com

    Murder of Anni Dewani - Wikipedia

    S v Dewani (CC15/2014) [2014] ZAWCHC 188 (8 December 2014)

    Shrien Dewani: from lavish wedding to a high court murder trial | Dewani murder case | The Guardian

    Sister tells of murdered Anni Dewani’s doubts over wedding | World news | The Guardian

    The Anni Dewani murder: Ten years later

    The Hindochas | eNCA

    The Honeymoon Murder - The Atavist Magazine

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  • IHHers, today’s case is an interesting one. Firstly, Phindile Joseph Ntshongwana was not an anonymous guy before these crimes put him in the papers. In fact, he used to be a professional rugby player –and you know how South Africans feel about their rugby. The other reason this case got so much attention was that Phindile is a literal axe murderer who went on a week-long rampage in March 2011, murdering four people and attempting to kill at least two others. But there’s a lot more to this case, in particular there’s the question of “mad or bad?”. Phindile would claim that his terrible actions were the result of profound mental illness, opening up a whole psychological and legal can o’ worms...


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    SOURCES:


    https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/south-africa/2021-06-07-former-blue-bulls-player-turned-axe-murderer-fails-appeal-bid/

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/kwazulu-natal/expert-flabbergasted-by-testimony-1720244

    https://www.news24.com/citypress/southafrica/news/from-teddy-bear-to-terminator-20110402

    http://www.saflii.org/za/other/ZAKZPHCRolls/2021/74.html

    https://mg.co.za/article/2013-04-18-accused-blue-bulls-axe-murderer-had-seizure/

    https://news.sky.com/story/former-rugby-player-in-court-over-axe-murders-10488883

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4aOVPzvFI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjqRTyHMjA0

    https://www.news24.com/drum/News/phindile-ntshongwana-guilty-of-murder-20170728

    https://www.news24.com/News24/Ex-Blue-Bulls-players-gets-5x-life-for-axe-murders-20141219

    https://www.enca.com/axe-killer-unaware-actions-court-hears

    https://news.sky.com/story/former-rugby-player-in-court-over-axe-murders-10488883

    http://www.lawlibrary.co.za/notice/updates/2014/issue_16/recentjudgments_kzd.htm

    https://www.ofm.co.za/article/149451/Former-Blue-Bulls-rugby-player-back-in-court-for-murder

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  • While my current investigation/research is taking a bit longer than normal, here's an interview I did with Yonela Sinqu, the communications officer at Sisonke, the National Sex Workers Movement in South Africa. We talk about why they advocate for decriminalisation (rather than legalisation), as well as getting into some of the discrimination and violence sex workers face. A study by the South African Media Research Council recently found that 71% of women sex workers said they had been exposed to physical violence and 58% said they had been raped. One in seven of the 3005 women surveyed reported being raped by a policeman. This puts sex workers at astronomically higher risk of violence, and then they must deal with stigma on top of that. My own personal belief is that sex work is work, and that those who work in the space deserve the same protections and rights as any other worker, as any other human.  


    For more, visit www.sweat.org.za.

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  • Zephany was born on 28 April 1997, in Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town. She’d been born via C-section, and so her mom was still recuperating in the ward a few days later. And it was while mom Celeste lay there, in and out of an exhausted, post-operative sleep with her little girl resting by her side that the unthinkable happened. On April 30th, someone entered that room, dressed in the maroon trousers and oatmeal shirt of the Groote Schuur staff uniform, and took Zephany from her crib before disappearing, seemingly forever.


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    SOURCES

    Miche’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Zephany-mothers-daughter-astonishing-story-ebook/dp/B07WFJDY3H

    2010 interview with the Nurses: https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/search-for-daughter-never-ending-474075#.VP146CzsBsk

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephany_Nurse

    https://soundcloud.com/nbpublishers/a-conversation-with-zephany-nurse-or-miche-solomon

    https://www.all4women.co.za/2212974/news/south-african-news/exclusive-miche-solomon-zephany-nurse-says-pandemic-shook-her-world-again

    https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49825705

    https://www.enca.com/news/miche-solomon-i-didnt-know-if-should-cry-or-laugh

    https://www.enca.com/news/she-really-took-good-care-me-miche-solomon

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/what-is-it-that-makes-a-woman-want-to-steal-a-baby-the-abductor-s-profile-1287013.html

    https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/zephany-to-mom-you-are-paying-a-price-for-the-cost-of-loving-me-30854807

    https://www.kidspot.com.au/lifestyle/entertainment/i-was-kidnapped-at-birth-then-found-my-secret-sister/news-story/1ba2124e14988d72098e09ca62151c05

    https://www.missingkids.org/content/dam/missingkids/pdfs/ForHealthCareProfessionals_10thEdition.pdf

    https://www.news24.com/news24/books/extract-zephany-you-think-you-know-a-person-especially-your-own-mother-right-20190816  

    https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/i-know-she-took-me-miche-solomon-on-being-zephany-nurse-20190815

    https://www.thatslife.com.au/stolen-birth-dna-test-exposes-truth

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-08-15-my-biological-dad-is-a-lost-cause-zephany-nurse-reveals-in-new-book/

    https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2019-08-18-betrayed-zephany-nurse-is-battling-to-trust-again/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp9mjLptlTA

    Interview with Lavona and Michael  in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qccQwfbjyoI

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1670168/pdf/bmj00131-0010.pdf

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  • The President Hotel in Bantry Bay is a long way from the sweet and simple townhouses we’ve been lurking in recently. It has some 350 rooms and apartments, with tall palm trees positioned around a pool and the exterior painted in startling white just to lean into that Med look. On the 7th of June 2009, security guard Mark Benjamin is standing outside room 54 key in hand, with two others chomping at the bit to get inside. These men are Lester Penteni and Marshall Gobinca. The men had gone to the President Hotel in search of Judge Patrick Maqubela, who was leasing one of the luxury apartments and had been unreachable for a few days…. Twelve years later, the cause of Patrick’s untimely demise remains a matter of debate. One acquittal, one conviction and one appeal later, Patrick’s cause of death remains unexplained.


    Sources:

     

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    A not so perfect murder

    Acting judge dead for a few days before body was found

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    How did this judge die .?

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    Maqubela patologist can’t make ruling

    Maqubela shocked at husband's SMS messages to lover

    Maqubela SMSes read out in court | News24

    Maqubela text messages revealed

    Maqubela trial resumes after 8 months

    Maqubela wants to be home for Christmas | Drum

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    Murdered judge’s widow: I loved him

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    No surprise that judge was killed: state

    One minute murder plan improbable - defence | News24

    Prayers to the wind: Patrick Maqubela: Acting judge and former MK operative

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    Saying goodbye to designer wear

    SHE TOLD US OF JUDGE'S 'INFIDELITY'

    Slain judge ‘was sex addict’

    Thandi Maqubela 'was a cold step-mother' | OFM

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    Thandi Maqubela back in court | Drum

    Thandi Maqubela bio: age, children, patrick Maubela, pictures, profile, where is she?

    Thandi Maqubela not guilty of her husband's murder‚ appeal court finds

    Thandi Maqubela wants her share of estate

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    Thandi Maqubela’s lawyers quit over ‘totally inadequate’ fees | News24

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    Toxicology tests conducted on judge's body

    Witness received SMS from dead judge

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  • Today we’re traveling to Gqeberha on the south east coast of South Africa, the perfect spot for a young couple like the Panayiotous. Jayde Panayiotou worked as a teacher and her husband Christopher was an entrepreneur. On April 21 2015, Cherise Swanepoel pulled up to the Stellen Glen townhouse complex as always to carpool with Jayde to work, but there was no sign of her, no answer on her phone either. Jayde was the victim of an abduction and by 10am the whole country would be sharing her image online using #findjayde – but it was already too late.


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    SOURCES

    Panayiotou tape exposed: ‘I told you to let them do it outside the house’ - YouTube

    https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FindJayde&src=hash

    Jayde Panayiotou: How the story unfolded

    #FindJayde - Twitter Search / Twitter

    Jayde Panayiotou's killer given another life term for killing elderly woman in 2015 | News24

    News - jayde panayiotou | Graaff-Reinet Advertiser

    Wife killer Panayiotou loses appeal bid | Graaff-Reinet Advertiser

    Body of missing teacher Jayde Panayiotou found

    Surprise witness called in Panayiotou murder trial

    S v Panayiotou and Others (CC26/2016) [2017] ZAECPEHC 53; [2018] 1 All SA 224 (ECP) (2 November 2017)

    It looks like a hit now: Panayiotou to so-called middleman | eNCA

    Expert stands firm in Jayde case

    Christopher Panayiotou was not very emotional: witness

    Missing PE teacher: Reward offered | George Herald

    I am using my anger to try to get justice for Jayde‚ says sister

    Jayde's final moments | OFM

    Uitenhage, garden town in Eastern Cape, South Africa

    Jayde’s friend recalls the day she vanished | News24

    Woman describes hearing the gunshots that killed Jayde

    Jayde’s friend tells court of frantic search on day she went missing

    Friend who was last to see Jayde alive called as first witness

    Jayde Panayiotou’s friend in tears as she testifies

    Lonely Jayde used to wait up for Christopher Panayiotou - friend | News24

    Jayde Panayiotou waited up at night for her husband, court hears | The Citizen

    Home - Missing Children South Africa

    First on EWN: Jayde Panayiotou's husband arrested for her murder

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  • Back in 2005 the Shiraz complex in Stellenbosch had just been completed and the first set of tenants moved in, including 22-year-old student Inge Lotz. Inge was whip-smart, studying mathematics and stats at the University of Stellenbosch. She was a dedicated student who liked to stick to a schedule for her academic work, so when she wasn’t answering her phone on the night of 16 March 2005, her mom assumed she was head down in a book. Inge’s boyfriend Fred van der Vyver, however, was not as convinced. He’d been trying to reach Inge for hours. He calls a friend who lived nearby and sent him to check things out at Shiraz. There he'd find the savagely attacked body of Inge, kicking off a case that remains perplexing and unsolved today. 


    SOURCES:

    'I have stopped searching for answers' - Inge Lotz's dad | News24

    'Inge has killed herself' | News24

    Freddie Boy The Untold Story – A book covering the widely publicised murder trial of Inge Lotz as viewed through the eyes of one of Fred van der Vyver lawyers.

    Fruit of a Poisoned Tree: https://www.amazon.com/Fruit-Poisoned-Tree-Antony-Altbeker/dp/1868423336

    Hammer an ‘unlikely’ murder weapon in Van der Vyver case | News24

    Hawks chase new Inge Lotz murder lead

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    Inge and Fred 'over' | News24

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    Investigators unearth sordid new twist in Lotz murder case

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    Last hours with slain student

    Lotz 'murderer's' alibi 'not watertight'

    Lotz 'tried to avoid fatal blows'

    Lotz murder accused acted strangely, court hears - The Mail & Guardian

    Lotz's dad has ‘cut himself off from world’

    Man 'confessed' to Inge murder | News24

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    Pathologist describes Inge Lotz's wounds | News24

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    http://truth4inge.com/

    Who killed Inge? 11 years later mysterious Lotz murder still haunts | You

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  • Yes, I know that is a truly awful joke. I’m not even sorry though.  In this definitely-not-a-third-part episode, I want to pull a few loose threads that I simply couldn’t when I was putting together the larger narrative of the Station Strangler case and Norman Simons. 


    Sources:

    http://www.psychology.uct.ac.za/psy/staff/professors/colintredoux

    https://www.dailyvoice.co.za/news/no-parole-for-station-strangler-21912705

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20091211/283158604730132

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20091211/283381943029524

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20091214/282372625716970

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20091212/283089885254251

    https://www.uct.ac.za/downloads/uct.ac.za/news/lectures/inaugurals/Tredoux_inaugural.pdf

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  • This is part two of the Station Strangler. If you haven’t listened to part one, start there. Last week we covered a series of murders, from 1986 to 1992, and I told you about ten young boys who were raped and strangled before being dumped in various sites near the train stations and in the sand dunes of Mitchell’s Plain and surrounds. 

     

    In early 1994, there had been a gap of over two years since the disappearance of any young boys had been definitively linked to the so-called Station Strangler, but soon we would learn that the nightmare was far from over. In January, just a single month, the bodies of eleven raped and murdered young victims would be found. This is what is known as the month of horror. 


    PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ithappenedhere

     

    SOURCES: 

    https://apnews.com/article/c60bf1b31c1ad630cd17035149fe35c6

    https://apnews.com/article/fb2a9bb403504cd9fe764badfb059bc7

    https://mg.co.za/article/1994-09-09-station-strangler-whos-fooling-whom/

    https://mg.co.za/article/2005-08-16-station-strangler-back-in-court/

    https://mg.co.za/article/2007-04-25-late-judge-fondly-remembered-by-peers/?amp

    https://www.deseret.com/1995/6/14/19177025/is-man-who-killed-boy-s-africa-s-serial-strangler

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/revisiting-the-station-strangler-cases-250970

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/serial-killer-inquest-hear-of-inconsistencies-400257

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-29-mn-16600-story.html

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    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20140524/281625303343669

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20091212/283089885254251

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-sunday-edition/20091213/282737697936478

    https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/cape-flats-cape-town

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fjWHrL6kIw

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK8hFQR3ip8

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JFGyQ78cvE

    Profiling serial killers and other crimes in South Africa, by Micki Pistorius. The Penguin Group (South Africa), Cape Town 2005. ISBN 9780143024828 / ISBN 978-0-14-302482-8

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/revisiting-the-station-strangler-cases-250970

     

    LOCATIONS

    Mnandi Beach: https://goo.gl/maps/ikQ3RTwGKmnN5AAm7

    Rocklands: https://goo.gl/maps/cezGmqXrmp1BQfS17

    Westpoort Drive: https://goo.gl/maps/tmouV6igQ8impcjR6

    Beacon Valley: https://goo.gl/maps/hVfKyhFViXn7Div86

    Strand: https://goo.gl/maps/cavcHuZJ9LmAAn589

    Kuils River: https://goo.gl/maps/WJmkweo3qcUuDNLU9

     

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  • I’m just jumping into your new episode feeds with a mini update. This refers to episode five – the killing of Susan Rohde in 2016, for which her husband Jason Rohde was convicted in late 2018. Jason was found guilty by Judge Salie-Hlope in the Western Cape High Court. Now, on 16 August 2021, Jason has appealed this ruling in the Supreme Court of Appeal, the second highest court in South Africa. Here's a quick summary of the defence claims.

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  • The case of the Station Strangler unfolds at a critical and tense juncture of South African history. The majority of events here take place between 1986 and 1995, the last few years of apartheid. In fact, eleven victims bodies are found just weeks before our first democratic election in 1994. Only one man has ever been convicted of any crime associated with this spate of murders, although there is a lot of speculation that he wasn’t the only perpetrator. So many social, personal and political factors combined around this case, making it one of such horror and cultural significance in South Africa that for many of us, the dunes and the trains stations of Mitchell’s Plain and the Cape Flats still carry a taint of association – sites where at least 22 boys and young men met someone who lured them away, raped and killed them, before burying them in shallow sandy graves. 


    PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ithappenedhere

     

    SOURCES: 

    https://apnews.com/article/c60bf1b31c1ad630cd17035149fe35c6

    https://apnews.com/article/fb2a9bb403504cd9fe764badfb059bc7

    https://mg.co.za/article/1994-09-09-station-strangler-whos-fooling-whom/

    https://mg.co.za/article/2005-08-16-station-strangler-back-in-court/

    https://mg.co.za/article/2007-04-25-late-judge-fondly-remembered-by-peers/?amp

    https://www.deseret.com/1995/6/14/19177025/is-man-who-killed-boy-s-africa-s-serial-strangler

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/revisiting-the-station-strangler-cases-250970

    https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/serial-killer-inquest-hear-of-inconsistencies-400257

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-29-mn-16600-story.html

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/cape-argus/20091214/282372625716970

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20140524/281625303343669

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20091212/283089885254251

    https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-sunday-edition/20091213/282737697936478

    https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/cape-flats-cape-town

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  • This is part two of the Krugersdorp cult killings. At the centre of this is a woman called Cecilia Steyn who has created this epic backstory for herself, in which she is a former Satanist, a ritualistic abuse survivor, who wants to transform her life and walk with christ. So far she’s convinced Ria Grunewald and Ria’s prayer group turned sect Overcomers through Christ that for the church of satan, she’s the one who got away. And then she's turned a small breakaway group against Ria, and together perpetrated four murders in 2012. The next definitive point on our timeline - where this episode picks up the story again - is November 2015, when the group shifts from murder for revenge and belief, to murder for profit. 


     SOURCES:

     

    ·      The Krugersdorp killings explained: Who was murdered, how, and why | News24

    ·      Grandson is 'saviour' for victims of 'Krugersdorp killers'

    ·      Seven life terms in jail for Krugersdorp teen roped into murder by mom

    ·      Krugersdorp Killers: Six chilling details from Marinda Steyn's testimony

    ·      #KrugersdorpMurders – remaining three to learn their fate this week | Krugersdorp News

    ·      Krugersdorp killings: 'Witches will kill you,' Marcel Steyn's mom tells her in prison - report | News24

    ·      #KrugersdorpMurders — Marinda Steyn's testimony of why they started killing people | Krugersdorp News

    ·      #KrugersdorpMurders – God has forgiven me, says convicted murderer Marinda Steyn | Krugersdorp News

    ·      Krugersdorp killers strangled most victims to death

    ·      Main suspect in Krugersdorp murders suing police for over R3m

    ·      ‘Devilsdorp’ killers: Six bizarre details that didn’t make it into the doccie

    ·      Outrageous omission gives 'The Trials of Oscar Pistorius' a bitter taste

    ·      #KrugersdorpMurders – 'She was sent to open the gates of Hell' | Krugersdorp News

    ·      Cecilia Steyn – Candice Rijavec

    ·      'Remember I love you' - murdered Krugersdorp victim's last words to fiancée

    ·      First photo of all the accused in #TripleMurder case | Krugersdorp News

    ·      Life in jail for friends and neighbours guilty of Krugersdorp killing 'tsunami'

    ·      Interesting yet disturbing info about the #KrugersdorpMurders trial so far | Krugersdorp News

    ·      Krugersdorp killings: Cecilia Steyn denies being a satanist | News24

    ·      'Remember I love you' - murdered Krugersdorp victim's last words to fiancée

    ·      Krugersdorp killer says best friend was not murder 'mastermind'

    ·      Life in jail for friends and neighbours guilty of Krugersdorp killing 'tsunami'

    ·      'Krugersdorp Killers' torn by plea bargains

    ·      https://www.showmax.com/eng/tvseries/lguobeqc-devilsdorp

    ·     Devilsdorp - The Official Companion Podcast; https://iono.fm/c/6598

    ·      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KixioWhKJE4

    ·     https://www.npa.gov.za/sites/default/files/media releases/Indefinite%20Life%20Sentences%20for%20Krugersdorp%E2%80%99s%20Electus%20Per%20Deus%20Cult.pdf

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  • This is the story of eleven murders and six accused murderers. There are multiple methods of killing, multiple disposal MOs, a period of almost a decade from the first slayings to the sentencing, and many locations. You will meet some of the strangest characters, and hear bizarre, meandering stories of events and reasoning built on a flimsy pretext of belief, but this is also the story of a small group of friends, in a small town, a teacher, a school girl, her brother. On paper, at least at a surface level, they sound like no one you’ve ever encountered before and like 500 people I knew growing up– the extraordinary in the mundane. When this group and their crimes were finally exposed, the whole town of Krugersdorp was left grappling with a new and uncomfortable insight into itself. 


    This is episode 8 - Devil in the ‘dorp: The Krugersdorp cult killers 


    SOURCES:


    ·       'My mother put the hammer down and started stabbing her': chilling evidence in Krugersdorp murder trial

    ·       'Over-protected' Zak Valentine earned R70,000 a month when he began killing

    ·       'Pray, I am going to kill you now,' Krugersdorp murderer tells victim

    ·       'Remember I love you' - murdered Krugersdorp victim's last words to fiancée

    ·       ‘Ria Grunewald is dead. I lost everything’: Witness in Krugersdorp killings case tells how her life fell apart

    ·       #KrugersdorpMurders — State says Cecilia was the 'CEO' of this murderous 'company' | Krugersdorp News

    ·       #KrugersdorpMurders — The State's keywitness tells her story | Krugersdorp News

    ·       Devilsdorp - Showmax

    ·       Flats to Rent in Krugersdorp Central - 28 Apartments | RentUncle

    ·       Inside the mind of a teen drawn into the Krugersdorp killing spree

    ·       Key witness in Krugersdorp murder trial tells court of Wimpy werewolves | The Citizen

    ·       Krugersdorp killers strangled most victims to death

    ·       Krugersdorp Killers trial: Everything that’s happened so far | You

    ·       Krugersdorp Killers: Marcel Steyn has the mindset of a 10-year-old - defence | News24

    ·       Krugersdorp killers: Psychologist believes Marcel Steyn can be rehabilitated | All4Women

    ·       Krugersdorp killings: 'Witches will kill you,' Marcel Steyn's mom tells her in prison - report | News24

    ·       Krugersdorp murders: 'I was sure they would kill me if I didn't take part'

    ·       Life in jail for friends and neighbours guilty of Krugersdorp killing 'tsunami'

    ·       SAPS says “Signs of Satanic activity includes interest in computer” – South African Pagan Rights Alliance

    ·       The Krugersdorp killings explained: Who was murdered, how, and why | News24

    ·      Why Ria Grunewald COULD NOT Escape Earlier – Candice Rijavec

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