Former Security Branch member, Abram Engelbrecht, and former riot cop, Pieter Stander, have been found guilty of the 1987 murder of Caiphus Nyoka. Nyoka, a prominent student activist, was gunned down ...

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Two former apartheid-era police officers in South Africa were found guilty of murder Tuesday in the 1987 killing of activist and student leader Caiphus Nyoka. Nyoka's fatal ...

In the spring of 2000, 17-year-old Afaq Ahmed Shah, radicalised by then newly formed Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror group, rammed an explosive-laden car ...

Nyoka was shot and killed at his home in Daveyton in 1987 by members of a police unit allegedly created to eliminate individuals labelled terrorists by the apartheid regime. Nyoka was a prominent ...

The Pretoria high court on Tuesday found former sergeants Abraham Hercules Engelbrecht, 61, and Pieter Stander, 60, guilty of the premeditated murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka in 1987. The ...

A New England serial killer has been unmasked — but he doesn’t appear to be connected to rampant rumors in the region sparked by the discovery of over a dozen bodies. Kevin Lino, 38, was charged in ...

Three former police officers accused of the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka appeared in the Pretoria High Court sitting in Benoni on 14 May 2025. Abram Engelbrecht (63), Pieter Stander ...

Florida authorities are pushing back on social media rumors about a "serial killer on the loose" in Jacksonville after three women were found dead in separate incidents over three days. The ...

Two of the three former apartheid-era police officers, Abraham Engelbrecht and Pieter Stander, have been found guilty of killing Daveyton student activist Caiphus Nyoka in 1987. The judgment was ...