The person suspected of strangling and killing reverend Liezel de Jager on 13 October 2021 was traced and arrested by a team from the National Cold Case Investigation Unit under the Command and Control of Brigadier Gininda in the early hours of 23 November 2023 in Bloemfontein, more than two
Action Society’s legal team filed court papers against the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, on behalf of Reverend Liezel de Jager’s father, Henk van Zyl, at the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria today, seeking a mandamus interdict to compel the police to properly investigate Liezel’s murder. Read the Notice of
“Real men don’t hurt or kill the women and children in their lives. Real men love and protect them. If you are an abuser, you sow trauma into your relationships and you treat women like trash. That makes you trauma trash. Aaliyah Chingy’s killer is not a man. He is
Sandile Jegwa, the 38-year-old man accused of murdering 34-year-old Cleo Diko, appeared in the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrates court today. The case was postponed and moved to regional court and will be heard again on 29 September. Action Society is overseeing Cleo’s case and continues to support her family. “Cleo went
The family of Alwaba Sondara walked out of the Paarl Regional Court bitterly disappointed on Tuesday as her case has been postponed yet again. Her killer will only appear before the court again on 25 March next year after he killed the 20-year-old in January of 2022 after severely beating
Action Society supported the families of various more victims of rape and murder the past two weeks – three of them under the age of fourteen. Multiple postponements for the most ridiculous reasons continue to frustrate the process to find justice for the victims and their families. Murdered: Thimna Kuze
Action Society has been mandated by the family of murder victim Busiswe Ndabezimbi to support and act as a watching brief in the fight for justice in her case. Busiswe was one of four people in her home in XaXabantu in Vrygrond on 13 August when, just after 20:00, two
The bail hearing of the man suspected of violently raping and killing 13-year-old Thimna Kuze in Khayelitsha on 25 March this year, was scheduled to appear before the Khayelitsha Magistrate’s court yesterday, but the proceedings were postponed to tomorrow. Action Society is overseeing the case on behalf of Thimna’s family
Action Society acts in the interest of the public through active advocacy for policy change. We work within the community to fight for a reformed justice system, holding government accountable for failing to protect South African citizens.
