Huisgenoot: Ware Lewensdramas

Between May 2018 and October 2022, Jessica Janse van Nieuwenhuys filed fraudulent tax returns on behalf of companies. She defrauded the South African Revenue Service (SARS) of more than R44 million and was convicted of fraud and money laundering.

Mariana Richter was murdered in her Hawston home in November. Her daughter Valentina was out on parole at the time for a 2015 murder.

We celebrate the life of the groundbreaking and well-known actress Shaleen Surtie-Richards.

We celebrate the life of the groundbreaking and well-known actress Shaleen Surtie-Richards.

In February 2023, the lives of Peter Huxham and Frik Potgieter change in the blink of an eye when they are arrested in Equatorial Guinea.

Anthony Trevor Watson lived in Heidedal, Bloemfontein, and thought he was going to get away with numerous rapes. Little did he know that the rape cases would end up on the desk of Sgt. Bessie Ntoba and she didn't give up easily.

In December 2017, staff sergeant Preston Titus was murdered in his bed in Oudtshoorn, with multiple stab wounds, and his wife, Magdaleen Titus, was linked to the murder. The community and South Africa could not believe what unfolded next.

In July 2018, the body of electrician Petrus Scholtz was found on a gravel road in Gqeberha. Wayne Russow, his mother, Christine, and his sister Chantell were arrested for the murder shortly afterwards.

In September 2015, Warren Knoop, a car salesman from Boksburg, was arrested at work. What began as an investigation into illegal content later revealed much more.

A French couple, Philippe Meniere and Agnes Jardel, went to live on a farm near Sutherland. In January 2011, a shooting broke out: a student constable died, a warrant officer was wounded and the couple disappeared without a trace.

In January 2022, 18-year-old Olivia Sieff was killed when she and two friends were crossing the road in front of a pub in Claremont, Cape Town, and she was hit. Sieff died instantly and the driver fled the scene.

During a strike in February 2022, Clover hired a private security company to provide additional security. When strikers pelted security guards with stones and overpowered them, Terence Tegg lost his life and JJ Cassanga was injured, but later died from his injuries.

In January 2021, Dr. Erna van Zyl and her husband, Dries, were attacked in their home in Pretoria in the early hours of the morning. Dr. Van Zyl was pronounced dead at the scene and her husband died a few months later from the injuries he sustained.