Some of the victims

• The Western Cape High Court in January convicted a 55-year-old man on charges of kidnapping, rape and murder of an eight-year-old boy from Tulbagh, Regan Gertse. The culprit, Jacobus Petoors committed the crime a few months after his release on parole for a similar crime.

• Six-year-old Bontle Mashiyane’s lifeless and mutilated body was found in the bushes in Mpumalanga earlier this year. One of the accused, Collen Hlongwane, a serial violent offender, was released on parole twice for attempted murders in 2008 and 2013.

• The man arrested in connection with the kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Tazne van Wyk absconded from parole a year before she went missing near her home in Elsies River, Cape Town in 2020. The accused, Moyhdian Pangarker, had served half of a 10-year sentence for culpable homicide and kidnapping.

• A 47-year-old man from North West, Basimane Sebata, raped a woman five days after he was released on parole for another rape. The rape took place in March 2020 in Rustenburg. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for robbery with aggravation. The sentence ran concurrently with the rape sentence of 20 years imprisonment.

• This week, The Daily Voice reported that the man accused of killing a Gugulethu teenager and stuffing her body into a wheelie bin was out on parole for rape at the time.