Look: Durban pupil raises funds for leukemia awareness

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Skye Meaker is not your average teenager - last year he won the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year award for his portrait of a leopard.

New insulin pump has hugely helped this SA family deal with type 1 diabetes

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The latest Medtronic insulin pump is streamlining diabetes management, and lessening the burden on families trying to cope with type 1 diabetes.

Cape pastor sentenced to 50 years behind bars for rape, murder

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A former Cape Flats pastor convicted of murder, rape, crimen injuria and theft was sentenced to an effective fifty years in jail on Monday

WATCH: Rob Packham asked a colleague to lie for him, court hears

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Murder-accused Rob Packham allegedly asked a work colleague to lie about his whereabouts on the day his wife disappeared

Cape pastor expected to enter into plea bargain for rape, murder

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The former pastor was arrested in 2017 for the murder of Aniesa Bardien, 36, after she broke off their engagement.

Van Breda case fits like a puzzle - judge

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'One rarely gets a case as strong as this against the accused'

#VanBreda ruling: Testimony accepted Henri's wounds were self-inflicted

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Judge Siraj Desai has accepted key testimony by Dr Marianne Tiemersma that triple axe murder accused Henri Van Breda's wounds were self-inflicted.

#VanBreda ruling: 'No security breach evidence, conduct inexplicable'

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Western Cape High Court Judge Siraj Desai is delivering judgment in the trial of Henri Van Breda who pleaded not guilty to the axe murders of his parents and his ...

Van Breda murder case postponed, Desai still the judge

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The Western Cape High Court has postponed judgment in the trial of triple murder accused Henri Van Breda to May.

#VanBreda: Judgment set down for April 23

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The mammoth trial of 23-year-old triple murder accused Henri Van Breda is finally drawing to an end after 66 days.

#VanBreda: Judge pinpoints 'highly frenzied, personal nature of attacks'

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This is what "concerns" Judge Siraj Desai as he weighs up versions of State and accused as trial of triple murder accused Henri van Breda nears end.

#VanBreda: Judge concerned by 'highly frenzied nature of attack'

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The nature of the attacks on the Van Breda family had been "highly frenzied" and personal in nature, carried out with intent to kill.

#VanBreda: 'Evidence fits in with Henri's version'

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Defence advocate Piet Botha spent Tuesday trying to convince the Western Cape High Court that his client, Henri Van Breda, should be acquitted.

#VanBreda: Judge tells impassioned defence counsel to 'calm down'

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Advocate Piet Botha gave a passionate delivery of his final arguments in defence of triple murder accused Henri van Breda on Tuesday.

#VanBreda: Two hour unabated argument 'impossible', says defence

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Advocate Piet Botha gave a passionate delivery of his final arguments in defence of triple murder accused Henri van Breda on Tuesday.

#VanBreda: 'State failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt'

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Advocate Piet Botha told the court the State failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt in the trial of triple murder accused Henri Van Breda.

#VanBreda: Evidence presented by State of poor quality, says defence

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Advocate Piet Botha told the court that the State failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt in the trial of triple murder accused Henri Van Breda.

#VanBreda: Circumstantial evidence overwhelming, says State

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The 23-year-old pleaded not guilty to three charges of murder, one of attempted murder and one of obstructing the ends of justice.

#VanBreda: 'Prima facie case' against Henri

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Senior State prosecutor said his first phone call had been to his girlfriend Bianca at 4. 24am, "a sixteen-year-old minor who lived in a hostel".

#VanBreda: 'Prima facie case' against triple murder accused

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Senior State prosecutor Susan Galloway told the Western Cape High Court that a "prima facie case has been made" in the trial of Henri van Breda.

#VanBreda family: Henri behind vicious attack, says state

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The fact that Marli van Breda, who was 16 years old at the time, survived was "not indicative of a lesser attack, but rather a miracle".

There was no evidence of a hit on the #VanBreda family, court hears

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Senior state prosecutor Susan Galloway told a court that it was Henri van Breda and not an intruder or intruders behind the vicious attacks on his family.

#EveryDropCounts: 'Ask the mayor why she didn't institute measures'

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DA leader Mmusi Maimane warned Capetonians that it would require a collective effort to avert Day Zero.

WATCH: City cracks down on black market water trade

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Deputy mayor Ian Neilson said water shops have sprung up and in many cases people are simply using municipal water to sell on.

#VanBreda: State, defence to prepare final arguments for February

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The mammoth trial of 23-year-old triple murder accused Henri Van Breda is finally drawing to a close after the defence closed its case.