Huisgenoot: Ware Lewensdramas

In February 2024, 6-year-old Joshlin Smith disappeared in Middelpos, Saldanha. The disappearance shocked all of South Africa, but what happened that led to 3 people being sentenced to life imprisonment for human trafficking in May 2025?

In February 2024, 6-year-old Joshlin Smith disappeared in Middelpos, Saldanha. The disappearance shocked all of South Africa, but what happened that led to 3 people being sentenced to life imprisonment for human trafficking in May 2025?

September 2016: Martha Jordaan from Kroonstad disappears without a trace. Her boyfriend Wayne Errol Henstock tells everyone she got a job on a guest farm. But the truth? Martha was much closer than he let on. What really happened to Martha?

In January 2016, Marius Botha's body was found in his home in Parklands near Bloubergstrand. In November 2020, four years later, someone was first arrested for his murder and was found guilty of premeditated murder in March 2025.

Carmen Gouws will turn 21 on October 7, 2023. On the same day, her body was found on a farm near Lutzville. She had, among other things, an axe wound to her head and was suspected of being raped.

On Friday, June 22, 2012, Leilani Murphy's parents saw her for the last time. On Sunday, June 24, 2012, her body was found in a car on someone's property in Bridgton, Oudtshoorn. But what happened between Friday and Sunday?

68-year-old Susanna Kilmister was murdered on a smallholding outside Mbombela in February 2022. Her grandson, who also lived with her, was arrested the same day.

In the early hours of 16 October 2024, first-year student Jesse Mitchell was murdered in Stellenbosch. On his 19th birthday. He was stabbed in the neck while riding an electric bicycle past Rudolf Hufke. Mitchell was fatally wounded.

On February 7, 2020, Tazne van Wyk was kidnapped. A suspect was arrested 10 days later. On February 19, her body was found in a storm drain along the N1 outside Worcester after the suspect pointed out the location.

We look back at the life and career of beloved actress Michelle Botes.

In March 2020, a body was found along a road in De Deur, Gauteng, and later another body. Both bodies were burned. After quick investigation, a woman was arrested in October 2020 and the story that followed is shocking.

In 2004, SA was abuzz with the so-called lion case where a man was thrown into a lion enclosure to dispose of his body. In 2016, one of the accused's name appeared in the media again - but it was a different incident.

We look at the life of beloved musician Lucas Maree, who passed away in 2011.