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13 September 2007. Riaan Stander (born 1972) is a South African serial killer who murdered two prostitutes in Port Elizabeth (present-day Gqeberha) in August 2007. His modus operandi consisted of picking up prostitutes in the evening, taking them back to his flatlet, slitting their throats with a bread knife, and dumping their bodies nearby.
Stewart Wilken was born on 11 November 1966 in Boksburg, South Africa. His father abandoned him and his two-year-old sister in a telephone booth when he was around six months old. [1][2] A domestic servant found the children and took them to the home of her employer, a man known as "Doep", who inflicted extreme physical and sexual abuse on ...
Crime in South Africa. Appearance. A graph of South Africa's murder rate (annual murders per 100,000 people) spanning the century from 1915 to 2022. The murder rate increased rapidly towards the end of Apartheid, reaching a peak in 1993. It then decreased until bottoming out at 30 per 100,000 in 2011, but steadily increased again to 41 per ...
The history of gangs in South Africa goes back to the Apartheid era. Many South African gangs began, and still exist, in urban areas. This includes cities like Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. Cape Town has between 90 and 130 gangs [1] with the South African Police Service stating a total estimated membership of 100,000.
Raped and murdered prostitutes, young boys and his own daughter around Port Elizabeth [43] Williams, Tommy: The City Serial Killer 1987–2008 3 3 Sentenced to life imprisonment Strangled three acquaintances in varying circumstances; South Africa's longest active serial offender [44] Xitavhudzi, Elias: The Pangaman 1953–1959 16 16 Executed in ...
ISBN. 9780624081449 (Paperback) The Lost Boys of Bird Island (2018) is a non-fiction book by Mark Minnie, a former police detective and Chris Steyn, an investigative journalist, both from South Africa. The book is about alleged corruption within the last Apartheid government of South Africa and a paedophile network whose most notable members ...
Satanic panic (South Africa) The Satanic panic is a moral panic about alleged widespread Satanic ritual abuse which originated around the 1980s in the United States, peaking in the early 1990s, before waning as a result of scepticism of academics and law enforcement agencies who ultimately debunked the claims. [1][2][3] The phenomenon spread ...
6. Span of crimes. May – October 1997. Country. South Africa. Date apprehended. November 1997. Nicholas Lungisa Ncama is a South African serial killer who was convicted in 1997 of three murders and sentenced to life in prison. His victims all came from the Port Elizabeth area of the Eastern Cape.