JOHANNESBURG, August 8 – Rhodes University student Khensani Maseko, who committed suicide after she was raped, will be buried on Women’s Day in Johannesburg. Khensani Maseko, 23, a final year BA student, was found dead at her family home in Alberton, Johannesburg five days ago. Maseko had suffered depression after she was raped, allegedly by […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 7 – The National Freedom Party (NFP) sent their sincere condolences on Tuesday to the family, friends, fellow students of the Rhodes University student, Khensani Maseko, who committed suicide after being raped, and called for the death penalty to those convicted of rape and murder. Maseko was allegedly raped by her then boyfriend in […]
NELSPRUIT, January 5 – A pupil has allegedly committed suicide on Friday in Schoemansdal in Mpumalanga after finding out that he failed grade 12, while another allegedly took his own life in Waterval Boven in the same province after he learnt that he passed grade 12 with a higher certificate, police said. Spokesman Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said […]
JOHANNESBURG, December 8 – A Grade 11 pupil in Ekangala committed suicide after he learnt that he has failed his final year examinations, the Gauteng Department of Education said on Friday. His mother found him hanging in the garage at home and called emergency services. He was declared dead on arrival at hospital. “The department […]
PRETORIA, October 11 – Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timor, who died in 1971, was murdered the North Gauteng High Court inquest found on Thursday. The re-opened inquest into the death of Timol found that he did not commit suicide. The court instead concluded that Timor died after he was assaulted, tortured and pushed out of the […]
JOHANNESBURG, April 3 – A female suicide bomber died when she detonated explosives on her body after she was attacked by a guard dog in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state as she attempted to enter a hall where a wedding ceremony was taking place. The dog, which died as the teenager detonated the Improvised Explosive Device […]
JOHANNESBURG, March 28 (ANA) – The South Gauteng High Court has heard how two women who were raped in 2015 at Rhodes Park have since tried to commit suicide. They were attacked by a group of men, and their husbands were ordered into the lake where they drowned, leaving them so devastated they attempted to […]