Jenni Evans, News24

Jenni Evans

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Cape Town, WC, South Africa

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Past articles by Jenni:

Stun grenades and arrests: Protesting UCT students chant for Phakeng's return

Protesting UCT students chanted for the return of former vice-chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng as the scope of their demands increase in a day of stun grenades and arrests. → Read More

Man accused of rape, murder of Bellville granny will only go on trial in 2024

A Cape Town man accused of murdering a Bellville South granny in 2021 will only go on trial in 2024, the Western Cape High Court heard on Friday. → Read More

Two women, man, in court for allegedly kidnapping Cape Town lawyer

Two women and a man have appeared in the Bellville Magistrate's Court, charged with kidnapping a Cape Town lawyer. → Read More

Mihalik murder accused quizzed on luggage-free Cape Town stay

The man the State alleges is the shooter in the Pete Mihalik murder trial insists he spent the day of the killing concluding a Kruger Rand deal and taking his girlfriend to get her hair done. → Read More

Mihalik 'shooter' says he didn't know he could use an alibi

The man who is alleged to have pulled the trigger in lawyer Pete Mihalik's assassination withheld his alibi for almost five years, saying he did not realise it could prove his innocence. → Read More

Gauteng premier moots tighter gun control after AKA, Motsoane murders

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi called for serious action over illegal guns following the merciless public murders of hip hop star Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes and his close friend, celebrity chef, Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane. → Read More

Two crane drivers arrested for reckless driving in Cape Town

Two crane drivers were arrested for overloading and reckless driving on their way to Muizenberg on Tuesday. → Read More

'To just grab your child and run is a terrible thing': Residents shocked by fire tragedy

Fire season in Cape Town claimed another two lives on Wednesday - and firefighters were busy battling a fire on Signal Hill on the same day. → Read More

Mountain safety warning issued after three chopper rescues in Western Cape

Three separate mountain rescues were carried out by Wilderness Search and Rescue over the weekend, with one including a lost 68-year-old man who spent the night in the mountains. → Read More

Seven killed in KwaZulu-Natal crash

Seven people were killed in a collision between a minibus taxi and truck near the Bergville Interchange on the N3 in the direction of Durban on Sunday. → Read More

'Relax. There's no issue': Ramaphosa on Phala Phala

President Cyril Ramaphosa urged people to "relax" over the Phala Phala report, saying they should wait until it comes under discussion at the ANC's conference which starts next week. → Read More

Load shedding stalks Ramaphosa's ANC renewal campaign in Western Cape

President Cyril Ramaphosa raced around Cape Town on Saturday morning in whistle-stop visits to people living around the sewage and litter-filled streets of Philippi. → Read More

Western Cape judge not impressed with 'allergies' delaying trial of double murder-accused

The judge hearing a double murder case in the Western Cape High Court barely concealed his anger when he was sent a picture of a bottle of Allergex and a vague doctor's note by one of the accused who did not pitch. → Read More

Hout Bay basketball coach 'helped' search for boy he's accused of killing

The Hout Bay basketball coach accused of the kidnap, rape and murder of 12-year-old Sibusiso Dakuse helped with the frantic search for the little boy who was eventually found dead in reeds. He has pleaded not guilty. → Read More

SACP protests in Cape Town against the release of Janusz Walus on parole

The SACP and its alliance partners in the Western Cape vowed that Janusz Walus would never step out of prison on parole for the murder of their hero and mentor, Chris Hani. → Read More

Man accused of murdering ex-girlfriend abandons bail bid

A Cape Town man abandoned his bail application, opting to wait out his trial for the murder of his ex-girlfriend in prison. → Read More

Judgment day for Tazne van Wyk murder-accused

Judge Alan Maher spent the past two days summarising the evidence presented to him in the lengthy Western Cape High Court trial. → Read More

Love Buttons Sex: Hanover Park's alleged 'Laughing Boys' on trial for murder

They may be called the Laughing Boys, but when these Hanover Park gangsters pull out a gun, there is no laughing, just panicked screaming and running away. → Read More

'David and Goliath' battle over River Club development in Cape Town continues

An application to rescind an order that the developers of Cape Town's massive River Club project stop building, is being heard in the Western Cape High Court. → Read More

Man convicted for murdering wife then staging it as a suicide

A Western Cape man was found guilty with an accomplice of murdering his former wife and making it look like a suicide and robbery. → Read More