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Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius (born 22 November 1986) is a South African convicted murderer and former professional sprinter. Both of his feet were amputated when he was 11 months old owing to a congenital ...
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Cornelius Gerhardus van Rooyen (April 11, 1938 – January 15, 1990), better known as Gert van Rooyen, was a South African paedophile and serial killer who allegedly killed at least six young girls between ...
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Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche (31 January 1941 – 3 April 2010) was an Afrikaner nationalist and white supremacist who founded and led the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB; Afrikaner Resistance Movement in ...
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Rashied Staggie is a former gang leader in Cape Town, South Africa. His twin brother, Rashaad Staggie, was leader of the Hard Livings gang who was killed after being shot and burned alive in Salt River ...
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Buyelekhaya Zwelinbanzi Dalindyebo a Sabata (born 1964; r. since May 1989), praise name Zwelibanzi, is a king of the abaThembu in South Africa. He is the son of the previous king, Sabata Jonguhlanga D ...
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Lee McCall (1950 – 30 January 1984) was a member of the Stander Gang, a group of three escaped convicts who went on a bank robbing spree in South Africa from October 1983 until February 1984. The group ...
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Dirk Coetzee (15 April 1945 – 7 March 2013) was co-founder and commander of the covert South African Security Police unit based at Vlakplaas. He and his colleagues were involved in a number of extra j ...
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Stephen Madi Mokone OIG (23 March 1932 – 19 March 2015) was a South African footballer who was the first black South African player to play in a professional European league.
First South African woman to be hanged for murder under the Union of South Africa
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Dorethea van der Merwe (also known as Dorethea Kraft and sometimes incorrectly referred to as "Dorothea") was the first woman hanged under the Union of South Africa. In 1921 she was convicted of the murder ...
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Four South African alleged arms smugglers were arrested by HM Customs & Excise officers in Coventry in March 1984 and charged with conspiring to export arms from Britain to apartheid South Africa in c ...
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Dion Taljard (born 7 January 1970) is a South African former cricketer. He played twenty-five first-class cricket matches for Border between 1993 and 2000. In September 2017, he was sentenced to 18 years ...
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George St Leger Lennox (1845 – December 1919) born into a noble Scottish family, popularly known as Scotty Smith, was a South African bandit known as South Africa's Robin Hood. He was well known as a cattle ...
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The Numbers Gang is a South African crime organization that originated as an African nationalist organisation. It is believed that they are present in most South African prisons. The gang was founded in ...
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Dawie Jacobus Groenewald (born c. 1968) is a South African game farmer, hunting safari operator and convicted wildlife trafficker. Groenewald is currently awaiting trial on over 1,600 criminal charges ...