Parents of schoolboys killed in a drag racing event involving Molemo Maarohanye are angry after the hip-hop star made a public apology on Soweto TV at the weekend.

The families were left seething after the man popularly known as Jub Jub (RIGHT) conveyed his condolences and offered to erect tombstones for Andile Mthombeni, Prince Mohube, Mlungisi Cwayi and Phomello Masemola – four boys killed in the deadly drag racing incident Jub Jub was involved two years ago.

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A shocking video has emerged in which seven boys gang rape a 17-year-old girl in Soweto.

Eyewitness News reported that the boys, who were between 14 and 20, were arrested on Tuesday.

A police spokesperson said the girl had gone missing three weeks ago, and is still missing. She was apparently left with an elderly taxi driver in Dobsonville.

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Brother and sister Hardus and Nicolette Lotter were convicted in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Tuesday of murdering their parents.

Mathew Naidoo, Nicolette’s boyfriend at the time, who was said to be the mastermind behind the murder plot, was also found guilty.

Naidoo had allegedly convinced the siblings that he was the “third son of God” and that God wanted their parents dead, prompting them to kill their mother Maria Magdalena Lotter (52) and father Johannes Petrus “Johnny” Lotter (53) in their durban home back in 2008.

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An Afghan woman was choked to death by her husband and mother-in-law for delivering a baby girl for the third time in northern Afghanistan.

“Storay, a 30-year-old mother of three, was choked to death by her husband and her mother-in-law in a remote village in Khanabad district of Kunduz province,” the police’s Sayed Sarwar Hussaini said. “She was told by her husband that if she delivered another baby girl, he would kill her.”

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The owner of a French breast implant maker at the centre of a safety scare has been arrested in southern France.

Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) founder Jean-Claude Mas, 72, was held at his home in Six-Fours-les-Plages, police sources told reporters.

In 2010, France banned PIP implants made with the low-grade industrial silicone, amid fears they could rupture and leak. Up to 400,000 women in 65 countries are believed to have been given implants

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 A Palestinian woman was imprisoned for nine years in a bathroom by her father, beaten, barely fed and only let out at night, a social worker and police said Monday.

She was given only a blanket, a radio, and a razor blade by her father, who encouraged her to kill herself, said the social worker, Hala Shreim.

Palestinian police freed Baraa Melhem on Saturday in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, after a relative told authorities of the woman’s plight, said spokesman Adnan Damiri. Authorities said Melhem was in her early twenties and that she was initially locked up when she was between 10 and 12 years old.

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News24 -  The woman brutally attacked by Johan Kotzé and three labourers has said she is only half a woman now and will never be interested in anyone else again.

Ina Bonnette, 42, spoke to Huisgenoot and You about her terrible ordeal at the hands of the man nicknamed the “Modimolle Monster”. The attack lasted for almost three hours, during which she was gang-raped, her breasts were slashed and her sexual organs were mutilated, reported the Sunday Tribune.

Kotze’s estranged wife suffered internal injuries as well as wounds to her chest and will have to undergo multiple operations. She is also on antiretrovirals.

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Identical suspects! Sibling rivalry! Folie à deux! When it comes to twins and  crime, real life often seems to mimic ‘CSI’

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More than 66 000 toxicology and alcohol tests are outstanding across South Africa, with a five to six-year wait for the results of the 15 000 toxicology samples in Cape Town, Pretoria and Joburg.

Thanks to a severe backlog at the country’s three skills-strapped forensic chemistry laboratories, the national health department has confirmed that, as at the end of July, 15 000 toxicology reports, along with 37 000 drunk driving reports and 14 500 post-mortem alcohol reports were outstanding

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Court ruling leads to 5000 lifers qualifying for speedy parole hearings

Half the criminals sentenced to life behind bars in South Africa for rape, murder and other violent crimes will be considered for parole after serving less than 14 years in jail.

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The thieves who broke into the Natural History Museum in Tring during the early hours of Saturday morning probably thought it had been a good night’s work.

They took two rhino horns, weighing 2kg each and worth about £240,000 on the black market. Or so they thought.

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A student has been arrested at the Cape Town International Airport for possession of drugs with an estimated street value of R350 000, police said on Saturday.

Police searched the 24-year-old woman’s bag at the airport on Friday and found two packets of tik, said Warrant Officer November Filander.

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President Felipe Calderón calls on Mexicans to unite behind policy against drug cartels after attack in Monterrey.

Until recently, Monterrey was seen by the rest of Mexico as an oasis of prosperity and peace amid the violence of the country’s drug wars. But this week’s attack on a casino, in which at least 52 people died, was a reminder that nowhere is safe.

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A teenager who used Facebook to encourage the ‘killing of a million police officers’ during the riots has been jailed for 33 months.

Amed Pelle incited his 2,000 friends on the site to commit violence and looting in Nottingham. The jobless 18-year-old posted three messages on his Facebook ‘wall’ on August 9, hours before serious disorder broke out in his home city.

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One of the best-known cartoonists in the Arab world has been beaten up by Syrian security forces, reports say.

Ali Farzat, whose work is strongly critical of the government, was forced out of his car in Damascus, badly beaten and dumped at the side of the road, activists say.He is now recovering in hospital.

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Criminals seem to have a thing for big vehicles.

The Cadillac Escalade remains the car most likely to be stolen, according to new data from the Highway Loss Data Institute. This is the fourth year in a row the Escalade has topped this list. The rankings for most stolen cars are based on auto insurance claims data from 2008 and 2009.

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Lahore police chief Malik Ahmed Raza says authorities found 70-year-old  Warren Weinstein during an early morning operation Thursday in Khushab city.

Raza says authorities tracked Weinstein after obtaining leads from three  arrested suspects and also by tracking mobile phone calls.

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Jessica Beagley, the woman dubbed the “hot sauce mom” after she poured hot sauce into the mouth of her adopted Russian son for lying about getting in trouble in school, has been convicted of misdemeanor child abuse in what prosecutors said was a ploy to get on the “Dr. Phil” TV show.

The 36-year-old mother made a videotape of how she punished the boy and submitted it to the show.

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“Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis surrendered to Los Angeles police Monday night in connection with a false imprisonment warrant.

According to TMZ, three women are claiming they met Francis at a nightclub and he offered to drive them to their car.

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Suspect filled fire extinguishers with explosives to prevent 26-year-old woman’s escape.

Local police said the 26-year-old Israeli woman was kidnapped at gunpoint by Thomas Fischer, a vague acquaintance, on Friday night and taken, handcuffed, to his flat in Barmbek, a suburb of the city, local police have revealed.

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