The former pupil’s suicide in a mental health clinic followed years of mental health struggles after he was allegedly abused by a former teacher at the school.
South African courts are about to confront a life-or-death question: should individuals have the right to decide how and when they die?
A heartbroken New York mom, reeling from a painful breakup, tragically leapt to her death at Niagara Falls with her two young children after sharing a haunting series of posts on her heartbreak.
Police are currently investigating the death of a Standard Bank employee who fell from the company’s Rosebank offices in Johannesburg last week.
CCTV footage shared by local police shows the crooner slowly approaching the distressed woman before leaning on the railings and talking to her.
Knight’s cause of death was initially deferred as additional testing was required, but now all has been revealed.
Thorpe died on the morning of 4 August having suffered “traumatic injuries” after an incident at a Surrey railway station.
The man who leapt to his death from a luxury hotel in New York City this week was identified as the wealthy co-founder of movie ticket firm Fandango.
Many of the individuals in the case had been described anonymously as “John Does” or “Jane Does”, but now most of their real names have been released.
Murray’s passing comes one day after withdrawing from the Charles Schwab Challenge on Friday, citing an illness.
De Jager is alleged to have beaten his pastor wife Liezel to death in October 2021 at their home in Amanzimtoti.
Jooste’s unexpected demise as a result of white-collar crimes is nothing new in South Africa.
In the years before Steinhoff went kaput, Jooste developed a ‘near-mythical reputation of a seminal businessman with the Midas touch’.
Uber driver and TikTok sensation, Bartho Dick from Booysen Park in Gqeberha, has a ball on the job by pranking his customers. But one day, he ended up saving someone’s life.
Scientists suggest that air pollution may also trigger inflammation in the brain, disrupt serotonin levels and interfere with stress response pathways.
88 individuals in the UK have died after purchasing a poisonous substance from an online seller based in Canada.
According to Bosnian media, the guy said “Hey guys, you’re going to see something you’ve never seen before – a live murder. It’s a massacre.”
South African Life Insurers have been going through the claims statistics from the last year and have spotted an alarming trend.
It looks like the Texas airport worker who was sucked into a jet engine Friday night wasn’t exactly a freak accident.
At the time of his appearance on Korea’s Got Talent, Choi was compared to Susan Boyle, and seemingly had the world at his feet.
Jordan’s father says said he wishes he could tell Jordan “every single day” if he had “a chance” that threats from the sextortionist were not the end of his life.
In 2016, when Maya Kowalski was 10 years old, she was rushed to the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, with an array of strange symptoms.
It was in the early hours of Sunday morning when a man took his life with his own gun after a night of fighting with his girlfriend.
The couple first prepared a fire altar before putting their heads under a guillotine-like mechanism held by a rope.
An as-yet-unnamed ‘7 De Laan’ actor has been admitted to hospital after trying to commit suicide following the shooting of his 29-year-old boyfriend.
The 15-year-old boy has apparently recovered from his coma and has no memory of the day his family jumped to their deaths.
It is believed that the 47-year-old Swede Nadja Nada de Jager strangled her two boys, Alexander, 9, and Maximus, 7, before taking her own life.
It reminds us of a Simpson’s cartoon where police find a ‘clear case of suicide’ after a man fell down an elevator shaft into some bullets.
The body was in a mummified state, and this, according to authorities, could be why the smell was not overpowering.
Disneyland has always seemed like a very creepy place to me. Perhaps it’s because I once spent a summer working on the carnival circuit and know that behind all the colourful backgrounds and twinkling lights there is often a hidden, darker layer.