True Crime South Africa

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    • A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder
    • By: M. William Phelps
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • In the weeks that followed Mary's death, the grief-stricken family received startling news from the medical examiner: Mary had been deliberately poisoned with colchicine....

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    • From the Case Files of a Police Psychologist
    • By: Gérard Labuschagne
    • Narrated by: Gerard Rudolph
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • In this gripping - and sometimes terrifying - account, former South African Police Service (SAPS) head profiler Dr Gérard Labuschagne, successor to the legendary Micki Pistorius, recalls some of the 110 murder series and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his career....

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    • A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South
    • By: Karen L. Cox
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide....

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    • South Africa's Most Notorious Female Killers
    • By: Tanya Farber
    • Narrated by: Deidre Wolhuter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Women are not paragons of virtue who cannot commit murder. Nor are they always insane when they do deliberately cause death. And the women with "blood on their hands" are not homogeneous....

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    • By: Andrew Harding
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • At dusk, on a warm evening in 2016, a group of 40 men gathered in the corner of a dusty field on a farm outside Parys in the Free State. Some were in fury....

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    • A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
    • By: Matthew Gavin Frank
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • For nearly 80 years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market....

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    • My Mother's Life Before Me
    • By: Emma Brockes
    • Narrated by: Emma Brockes
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Despite her mother's tales of a rustic childhood in South Africa and bohemian years in London, Brockes grew up knowing that some crucial pieces of the past were left unspoken....

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    • Conversations with South African Serial Murderers
    • By: Brin Hodgskiss, Nicole Engelbrecht
    • Narrated by: Gavin Gomes
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Hodgskiss interviewed several of the most notorious serial killers and his recordings sat gathering dust until recently, when top true-crime podcaster Nicole Engelbrecht found his research online.

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    • The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
    • By: Ravi Somaiya
    • Narrated by: Ravi Somaiya
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A riveting work of investigative journalism based on never-before-seen evidence, recently revealed firsthand accounts, and groundbreaking new interviews, The Golden Thread reveals the truth behind one of the great murder mysteries of the Cold War....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Nation from European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era looks at the controversial history of the country, from the initial European explorers to the successful struggle to dismantle apartheid....

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    • A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
    • By: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
    • Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters....

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    • A Very South African Murder
    • By: Jonny Steinberg
    • Narrated by: Grant Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the spring of 1999, in the beautiful hills of the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, a young white farmer was shot dead on the dirt road running from his father's farmhouse to his irrigation fields....

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    • Exposing South Africa's Underworld
    • By: Mark Shaw
    • Narrated by: Adrian Galley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
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    • Since 1994, South Africa has seen a worrying increase in the commercialization of murder – and has been rocked by several high-profile contract killings....

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    • 491 Days in One of Africa’s Most Brutal Prisons
    • By: Daniel Janse van Rensburg, Tracey Pharoah
    • Narrated by: Jason Morgan, Danny Painter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Black Beach, located on Bioko island off the mainland of Equatorial Guinea, is one of the world’s most feared prisons, notorious for its brutality and inhumane conditions....

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    • A Murder in a South African Township and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
    • By: Justine van der Leun
    • Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A Making a Murderer set in South Africa - a gripping true-crime story of murder and the justice system in the shadow of apartheid....

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    • Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa
    • By: Evert Kleynhans
    • Narrated by: Adrian Galley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The story of the intelligence war in South Africa during the Second World War is one of suspense, drama and dogged persistence....

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    • The True Account of the Nenegate/Trillian Whistleblower
    • By: Mosilo Mothepu
    • Narrated by: Phindile Xaba
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • When Mosilo Mothepu was appointed CEO of Trillian Financial Advisory, in March 2016, the prospect of being at the helm of a Black-owned financial consultancy was electrifying for a Black woman whose twin passions were transformation and empowering women....

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    • The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation
    • By: Justine van der Leun
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa. The 26-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August 25, 1993, during the final, fiery days of apartheid....

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