Man sentenced to life in jail for killing ex-wife

Convicted killer Marthinus van der Linde has been sentenced to life imprisonment for fatally stabbing his ex-wife at a pharmacy in Joubertina in 2020.

On Monday, Van der Linde, 48, was convicted on a charge of premeditated murder after Gqeberha high court acting judge Victor Nqumse found the state had proved beyond reasonable doubt that he had planned the murder of his ex-wife, Maritsa...

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