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- A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.
- When the daughter of a reformed criminal is kidnapped, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.
- A young woman comes to in a roadside diner with no idea where she is or how she got there. Split between two timelines, she gets taken on a violent journey as she seeks out the person responsible for her lover's death.
- The brutal rape and murder of Anene Booysen caused a massive outcry from South Africans, but the national outrage was short-lived. One year later not much has changed in the small town of Bredasdorp since that February night.
- On August 17th, 2008, eighteen year old Morne Harmse arrived at school in Krugersdorp. The slight pupil, described by his classmates as quiet, well mannered, and playful, then did something unthinkable. With accusations of Satanism, the idolisation of Heavy Metal bands like Slipknot, and the boy's use of a Samurai sword - this is one of the most unusual killings ever committed.
- Dubbed "Houdini" for his miraculous escape,Ananias Mathe is the first person to have escaped from Pretoria's C-Max prison. In just three days he single-handedly burgled 28 houses and poisoned 17 dogs in a small South African town. He created havoc in the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria, raping 20 women and robbing over 30 houses, often assaulting the families too. This story traces the crimes of Ananias Mathe back to the start and reveals a real modern day Houdini who stunned South Africa with his cunning escapes.
- On a sweltering hot summer day in February 1992, the unidentifiable bloated body of a man was found floating in the polluted Black River in a picturesque suburb of Cape Town. He had a crossbow bolt through his head. Across town Louisa Chatburn had reported her husband Graham missing just a few days earlier, claiming he had gone for an early morning walk and never returned. Through a ground-breaking and ingenious new method, the pathologist on the case was able to take the victims fingerprints and he was identified. Slowly the police put the puzzle pieces together, and the facts about the horrific murder began to emerge. The evidence began pointing at the victim's wife Louisa Chatburn. Police discovered she had bought a crossbow a couple of months earlier.
- Murdered on Honeymoon, tells the story of the brutal murder of newly wed bride Anni Dewani while on honeymoon in Cape Town in November 2010.
- In a small village in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, women and children are terrorized by nightfall, wondering who will be next. For four years they had to live in fear before the perpetrator was apprehended with 23 murders under his belt between 2008 and 2012. Little did they know that the murderer was the last person they suspected.
- This documentary is about the tragic life of Charmaine Mare, a young girl who had come to Cape Town in search of work to help provide financial support for her poverty stricken parents. Mare arrived in Cape Town in January 2013 and stayed with a friend Kristina White in Kraaifontein. But, for a few days she would be left alone with Johannes de Jager, the boyfriend of her friend's mother. In those few days, court records show that Mare frequently had to plead with him not to make sexual advances, and even recorded their conversations. Sadly, nobody listened to her pleas for help, with tragic consequences.
- It's been over two decades since a serial killer's reign of terror hit Cape Town, South Africa. His targets were sex workers. Over the course of four years from 1992 to 1996, twenty six workers were killed and their bodies dumped all over the peninsula. This true crime film pieces together the facts and uses experts and witnesses to attempt to shed new light on the shocking events.
- Marike de Klerk was alone - as the ex wife of a famous president, she was no longer afforded security detail. She moved to a security complex in Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, where she lived in an apartment on the beach front. It was while at home that she was killed. A security guard working there broke into her flat in December 2001. She was stabbed and strangled with such force that all four bones in her throat were broken. Her body was only discovered two days later. This documentary examines the media frenzy that ensued, the investigation by a crack police team, and the trial of Luyanda Mboniswa that made international headlines.
- This immersive film follows the story of South African convicted drug mule Tessa Beetge, who was arrested while attempting to smuggle 10kg of cocaine through Sao Paulo airport. The plot was thickened when it was revealed that Beetge was working on the instruction of the former wife of the State Security Minister. We follow Beetge back to South Africa to hear the whole true story.
- The Final Curtain tells the story of the tragic and untimely death of legendary South African theatre personality, musician and playwright Taliep Petersen, who was murdered in cold blood in his home late one night on 16 December 2006. At first police believed it to be an armed robbery gone wrong. But later it came to light that the men were hired by Taliep's own wife Najwa Petersen to kill him.
- Rosslyn "Roz" scours newspapers and the Web for job offers until one day she spots an online ad for temporary work taking stock at a local chain store. Roz is thrilled when she gets an email saying she's been hired. The next day, a minivan picks her up and takes her to the store. In the parking lot, she's told that there's been a slight delay and the minivan driver offers her some juice while she waits in the vehicle. Several hours later on the side of a road many miles away, Roz regains consciousness. Dazed and seriously injured, she is rushed to hospital. With her life hanging by a thread, Roz manages to tell her friend she'd been raped and viciously beaten by four men. Tragically, she soon suffers a massive seizure and dies in her hospital bed. The men who murdered Roz have never been brought to justice. Somebody out there still knows something...
- In the rural village of Umhluwayo in Kwazulu-Natal, one of South Africa's worst serial killers was born. Sipho Dube came from a religious family but from a young age terrorised the community. By 2006, 30 year old Dube was found guilty of murdering six children, one woman, raping three girls and indecently assaulting two boys. He was also convicted of ten kidnappings, one theft, one robbery, one common assault and one assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Throughout his trial he remained unrepentant, rude and aggressive. He displayed nothing but contempt for the court. He was sentenced to ten life sentences and an additional 114 years. Some will say Sipho Dube was born to do evil.
- Thandi Maqubela was the wife of acting judge Patrick Maqubela. But, in June 2009 he was found dead in his Sea Point flat. Shortly afterwards, his wife, the elegant and stylish Thandi Maqubela was arrested. What followed was a sensational trial that grabbed national headlines.
- A South African news room braces itself to cover the biggest story of its existence - the death of the father of the nation. For many of the 35 young journalists working for eNCA, this is the most memorable story of their careers, involving heads of states, royalty, rock stars and celebrities. It is a week in which South Africa regains international currency, but also a time of embarrassment for the bungles, such as the posting of a schizophrenic criminal to interpret speeches in sign language at a significant memorial service. The story is shot as a behind-the-scenes account of the telling of the big story that gripped the world for more than a week.
- The Trouble with Truth reveals the power of print in the face of oppression. As the South African apartheid government clamped down on free political activity and speech, a cheeky, independent-minded weekly newspaper shouted its protests. The Guardian developed into the intellectual voice of the liberation movement in South Africa, taking on the discriminatory ideology of apartheid and exposing its practices in print and photographs, headlines and provocative cartoons.