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Five years on: Mitchell's Plain family demands answers in altar girl's murder
Five years after the tragic murder of 17-year-old Carly Isaacs, her family in Mitchell's Plain continues to seek justice as the case remains unsolved. With calls for a review of evidence and witnesses urged to come forward, the community grapples with the ongoing mystery.
Art sleuth cracks case of Brueghel stolen in Poland in 1974
With the help of an art detective and some journalists, Dutch police say they have cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance of a Brueghel painting from a Polish museum 50 years ago.
Justice for Raymonde: Protesters oppose bail for rape accused Pregnolato
Carrying placards, the group also submitted a petition opposing his bail application.
Long-lost family reunited after 50-years
Her relatives believed she was missing and passed away, but were surprised and relieved to have received a Facebook post last week, searching for her family.
The alarming increase of child kidnappings in South Africa
It has been 299 days since six-year-old Joshlin Smith of Saldanha was kidnapped in Saldanha and she is one of several children who have not made their way back home for Christmas this year.
After searching three years, family discover Fisantekraal woman was murdered
Three years after a 24-year-old woman vanished without a trace after losing both of her parents in a horror crash, which claimed the lives of eight relatives, her family has discovered she was murdered and buried as an unknown.
Family of missing German tourist, Nick Frischke, wants green monkeys to help find him
The mother of missing German tourist, along with family and friends have begun a worldwide and nationwide campaign known as the Green Monkey to signify their never-ending quest to find Nick Frischke.
No new leads in olive farmer’s cold case
A Western Cape olive farmer who disappeared ten years ago from his farm near Barrydale remains a mystery despite cellphone to banking records while his family are praying for a fresh lead into the case as police state it is at a sensitive stage.
Mother and community claim they know who killed 4-year-old, Tamia Botha
This week marked the two year anniversary of the murder of four-year-old Tamia Botha and police have revealed that a cold case team has been assigned to the case with additional suspects being reviewed while community leaders claim they know who the killer is but that their pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
Family of missing man who lived on streets waiting to bury him due to delay in DNA testing
The family of a 70-year-old man who was missing for 28 years and found living on the streets is waiting to lay him to rest.
Hope fades as search for Joshlin Smith enters third month
It’s been three months since Joshlin Smith went missing, and now, according to an expert, hopes of finding the six-year-old Saldanha Bay resident are fading.
Kidnapped six-year-old Shasha-Lee’s parents should have been interrogated nine years ago
Shasha-Lee mysteriously disappeared on May 3, 2015, from her Groenall Walk home.
Cold, flu wave ‘not Covid’, health specialists say as high alert issued
There is no need for the public to panic because many people have developed some level of immunity from both vaccines and infections. The current strain or variant in circulation is less severe and less transmissible
On this day, April 2
The Zulu nation loses the Anglo-Zulu War, the Falkland islands are invaded and a notorious gangster is sentenced
‘Our systems are broken in finding missing children’
Chasing the evidence and facts and not speculation or social media is what experts in the field of missing persons cases have called on while the search continues for 6-year-old Joshlin Smith of Saldanha.
Tech being used to find missing mother who has been gone for four decades
A 44-year-old woman is hoping progression technology will help in her search for her birth mother who has been missing for four decades.
More than 20 years later, Jam Master Jay’s alleged killers finally go on trial
The trial, to be decided by a jury in a federal district court, is centred on the events of October 30, 2002, when the pioneering rap music star Jason ‘Jay’ Mizell was fatally shot in the head in his studio.
Conspiracy theories abound as jury selection starts for Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay’s murder trial
The infamous New York murder was in limbo as a cold case for nearly two decades.
Two sisters reunited after 63 years
Cape Town - Two sisters who last saw one another 63 years ago have been reunited after living 744 kilometres apart.
Age progression of five-year-old Florencia Langehoven renews hope in 30 year old kidnapping case
On the 30th anniversary of the kidnapping of five-year-old Florencia Langehoven, her family are hopeful that an age progression photograph done by an expert may help to solve the decades old crime.
Mother pleads with police to find her five-year-old son’s killer 18 years after his death
Cape Town - Five-year Nur Malgas was playing with friends when his killer snuffed his little life out and strangled him using his own clothes and stuffing it into his mouth before throwing his lifeless body into a ditch 18 years ago.
Family hopeful missing boy, 5, will be home for 7th birthday
Cape Town – The family of a missing five-year-old Lee-Virno van Wyk is continuing to pray for his safe return home as they approach his seventh birthday.
Assaulted poacher mysteriously missing for seven years
The family of a poacher who was assaulted after a diving deal and disappeared mysteriously seven years ago has not given up their quest to find him and believes he may have been kidnapped.
On this day in history, September 12
Some of the more interesting things that happened on this day.