Mpho Koka Journalist

Mpho Koka is a journalist at Sowetan, working as a general news journalist and reporter.

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Terrified five-year-old told of horror abduction before murder of his friends

When a mother returned home after 5pm on Wednesday, her five-year-old son was not at their house. Two hours later he ran in screaming, gesturing that ...

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Bid to bring ‘detained’ Marumo Gallants duo back from Libya

The government is set to meet the Libyan ambassador to South Africa this week as part of escalating diplomatic pressure to get two Marumo Gallants ...

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Sebokeng school stabbings connected to gangsterism, says department

Gauteng education MEC Matome Chiloane will visit Dinokeng Secondary School in Sebokeng on Monday after two stabbing incidents left one pupil dead and ...

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Chris Hani monument vandalised

The ANC in Gauteng has expressed outrage at the vandalism of the Chris Hani monument in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni.

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Ekurhuleni serial rapist Phakathi guilty of 148 charges

Ekurhuleni serial rapist Nkosinathi Emmanuel Phakathi, 38, has been found guilty of 148 charges of rape including sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery ...

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Unforgivable deeds deserve life in jail: Cousin of Ekurhuleni serial rapist

Judgment in the trial of Ekurhuleni serial rapist Nkosinathi Phakathi, 32, is expected next week after his guilty plea statement was read to the Palm ...

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'Ekurhuleni serial rapist' pleads guilty to 148 charges, including 93 rape cases

Nkosinathi Emmanuel Phakathi, 32, is facing 148 charges, including rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances, theft ...

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Siblings who cared for each other after parents’ deaths among 7 killed in ...

Two street vendors who died in a shooting that claimed the lives of seven people in Finetown, south of Johannesburg, were siblings who sold kotas and ...

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Mutilated body found in veld confirmed to be Bokgabo

The family of missing four-year-old Bokgabo Poo have confirmed that the mutilated body of a child found in an open veld on Tuesday is hers.

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Police arrest suspect in search for missing child Bokgabo Poo, 4

Gauteng police have arrested a man who was allegedly last seen with missing four-year-old Bokgabo Poo who disappeared on Monday afternoon.