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Multiple people were shot during a shooting incident along the M1 Higginson Highway over the N2 bridge, near Chatsworth, in Durban.
The Higginson Highway was closed off on both lanes resulting in a backlog of traffic on the west bound lane as motorists had to either reverse or take the N2 north on ramp to avoid the commotion.
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has welcomed the life sentence for 34-year-old Tshepo Boshielo in the Limpopo High Court in Polokwane.
Boshielo was convicted and sentenced for raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl.
According to the provincial spokesperson for the NPA, Mashudu Malabi Dzhangi while he [Boshielo] committed these offences in 2015, he was only arrested in 2019. Boshielo was linked by DNA to another two rape cases.
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In a separate incident, a KwaZulu-Natal father who raped his daughter in 2019 was sentenced in the Verulam Regional Court this week.
The 32-year-old man was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
The incident took place in the Cottonlands area and at the time the eight-year-old victim and her brother were visiting their father who lived with their grandmother.
The man gave his son a cell phone to play with before sending him to another room and proceeded to rape the young girl.
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