On Monday 26 August 2019, the Pietermaritzburg High Court will begin hearing Case: CC/18 DPP Ref: D 8/18 – better known as the “Glebelands Eight”. Between 5 and 8 December 2017 – days before the ANC’s ...
Earlier in 2019, Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane announced budget constraints limited her ability to take legal action against institutions that failed to comply with her recommendations. The ...
Dangerous, overcrowded and dirty, the Glebelands Hostel has been the scene of scores of violent deaths in KwaZulu-Natal. These deaths, mainly through murder, are commonplace in and around the infamous ...
A police officer, accused of a string of murders at the infamous Glebelands Hostel, has told the Durban Regional Court that his own brother had been killed there and that he nearly lost his life there ...
On May 17 Sipho Ndovela, a resident of the Glebelands Hostel in Umlazi, Durban, was acquitted of attempted murder in the Umlazi Magistrate’s Court. As he stepped out of the courthouse, three gunmen ...
Killings in the notorious Glebelands hostel in Durban - which have claimed at least 92 lives in the last two years - is linked to pure criminality. That's according to Advocate Cyril Selepe‚ a deputy ...
In the latest of a series of arrests linked to murders at the infamous Glebelands Hostel in KwaZulu-Natal, one of the most wanted suspects in the murders at the hostel has been arrested. Eyewitness ...
Six of the Glebelands eight were handed life sentences but the mastermind of the attacks, former police officer Bhekukwazi Mdweshu, only got 10 years.