On 13 December 2019, Rashied Staggie — Cape Town’s most feared gangster — was gunned down in Salt River, the same street where his twin brother was murdered two decades earlier.
For some, it was justice. For others, the start of another war.
In this episode of Unsolved Murders SA, we trace the rise, reign, and assassination of the Hard Livings gang boss who ruled the Cape Flats with blood and fear.
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On a quiet April morning in 2024, 30-year-old engineer Armand Swart was gunned down in Vereeniging — hit with 23 bullets in what investigators immediately recognised as a professional execution.
At first, whispers claimed mistaken identity. But the truth revealed something darker: tender fraud, organised crime, and a murder value chain stretching from Transnet to the police ministry.
In this episode of Unsolved Murders SA, we trace how Swart’s killing exposed the dangerous intersection of corruption, assassination networks, and whistleblower silencing in South Africa.
In February 2023, 22-year-old German tourist Nick Frischke vanished while hiking the Karbonkelberg trail in Hout Bay, Cape Town.
What began as a missing hiker case soon turned into a suspected robbery and possible murder, with gang ties and stolen belongings linking five suspects to his disappearance.
But Nick’s body has never been found. In this season opener of Unsolved Murders SA, we reconstruct his last movements, the investigation, and the haunting questions that remain unanswered.
Unsolved Murders SA returns with a deep dive into the tragic death of Juandré Kidson, a 30-year-old father and businessman who was viciously murdered on Saturday, 7 May 2022.
Unsolved Murders SA returns with a deep dive into the brutal death of Singwa Namhla Mtwa, a 35-year-old woman who was gunned down on her driveway, on Thursday, 21 April 2022.
Unsolved Murders SA returns with a deep dive into the brutal death of Jacoba 'Bubbles' Schroeder, an 18-year-old who was found dead at a dump site in Johannesburg, in 1949.
On 22 November 1977, a Tuesday, Robert was at his office in Springs, wrapping up the last bits and pieces of his political campaign.
Jeanne was out running errands in the afternoon, chauffeured by the family’s driver, Daniel Tshabalala.
Daniel would later inform investigators that Jeanne had returned from a busy day in the city, at approximately 18:10 and, the last time he saw her alive, was when he left the residence at 18:50.
Robert’s office workers assisted investigators with building a timeline when they noted that somewhere between 19:14 and 19:40, they had received a phone call from Jeanne asking for her husband’s whereabouts.
Jeanne, according to the workers, wanted to inform her husband that the anti-National Party voters he was due to meet with at his residence had arrived and were awaiting him.
Jeanne’s body was later found slumped over the phone, an indication that she met her fate in the worst manner imaginable, shortly after she had dropped the phone.
Siphamandla Madikane was 10 years old in 2013. At that age, Madikane had his entire life ahead of him.
For his single mother, Nokukhanya, Siphamandla was a beacon of his family’s future. His sister, Bongiwe Madikane, was 23 years olf at the time and her role was to provide auxiliary support to her mother in raising the young boy.
His family described him as a well-mannered and playful kid. His uncle Sibabalo, adored Siphamandla as “a bright boy and I was hoping he could make a difference in the family.”
Sunday 3 November 2013 was just like any other weekend for Nokukhanya. It was a relatively warm day and as it had become a norm at the time, there was no electricity in the area of Ramaphosa they lived in.
She did not know it at the time but that Sunday morning and early afternoon were the final moments Nokukhanya spent with her son.
On Monday 28 August 2000, Leslie was scheduled for a flight to George to lead a product-focused seminar at the Liberty branch.
As it was the norm, Leslie arrived in George and checked in for a night’s stay at the Protea Hotel situated at King George Park.
The hotel was only a 10-minute drive from the airport and after her training, which was scheduled for Tuesday, the 28-year-old would proceed to catch a flight back to Cape Town.
Hotel records indicate that Leslie checked in at the hotel that day and was allocated Room 205, an outside suite that offered the Liberty Life representative a sense of privacy.
Nobody knows if Leslie left her room at any point after she had checked in.
The last time Christine had heard from Leslie that fateful evening was at approximately 20:00.
Fatima Patel suffered an unimaginably violent death on 10 April 2015. She was only 28 years old.
Police were called out to the house where Fatima resided with Rameez and their three children after neighbours heard screaming and what sounded like a gunshot.
Susanna ‘Soekie’ Jacobs and her daughter Melissa were residents of Fish Hoek, a seaside community on the far east side of the Cape Peninsula.
Between the 1st and 3rd of November 2021, both women left friends and relatives in utter shock when their dead bodies were discovered in separate locations.
The mysterious death of Liezel de Jager continues to haunt the Amanzimtoti community more than two months after her lifeless body was discovered on the front yard of the Dutch Reformed Church’s rectory, on the morning of Wednesday 13 October 2021.
Aviwe Jam Jam was a 26-year-old woman from Cape Town, South Africa, who was viciously murdered on the weekend of Friday 28 July 2017.
In the first episode of our new podcast series, we delve into the complex investigation into the death of 41-year-old Priscilla Du Toit, a fitness guru whose battered body was found inside her Fourways residence, on Thursday 17 October 2019, three days after she was last seen alive or heard from.