Sipho Mahlangu is the Chief Reporter and covers the police, the courts and the crime beat, including the cases that go quiet and the charges that do not hold.
SAPS says the motive is unknown and has not released the victim's nationality. For Durban's CBD traders, the morning's march meant shut doors and a day's income gone, on top of the looting and torched vehicles that hit foreign-owned shops earlier this month.
How a Durban CBD killing becomes a police case: what SAPS has confirmed, what a murder docket actually involves, and why the answers South Africans want are not the ones an investigation gives first.
