Crime South Africa
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Africa & World
Ex-cop Rosemary Ndlovu slapped with life in jail for murdering six people
JOHANNESBURG. — Former police officer Rosemary Ndlovu has been sentenced to life imprisonment for orchestrating the murder of her partner and five of her family members so that she could claim insurance payout from policies she had taken out for them. The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg sentenced Ndlovu on Friday afternoon, following a morning of arguments in mitigation and…
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Africa & World
Wealth gap in South Africa hasn’t changed since apartheid, report says
SOUTH Africa remains the most unequal society in the world 27 years after independence with 3 500 mainly white South Africans owning more wealth that 32 million poor blacks, a new study reveals. According to the Thomas Piketty-backed World Inequality Lab, over half the population of 60 million have more liabilities than assets. The social architecture formed over more than…
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Africa & World
‘Gynaecologist’ rapes women in hospitals
POLICE in South Africa are on the hunt for a doctor who allegedly raped women at two different city hospitals, while civil rights organisations called on hospitals and other health professionals to safeguard women in their care. Having received reports and even a case opened against the man, police said he had disappeared into thin air, and requested anyone who…
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