True Crime South Africa
True Crime South Africa is the first victim-focused true-crime podcast in the country.
Host, Nicole Engelbrecht, researches each case herself using media coverage, trial footage, social media sources and often by talking to some of the individuals involved. Using her skills as a creative writer and her passion for true crime, she crafts each script to ensure that listeners are given a deep dive into the case mechanics as well as an understanding of the victims as human beings.
The podcast covers both solved and unsolved South African true crime cases. The unsolved cases are often cold cases which can benefit from awareness being brought to them. This concept has been used in the US for many years and to great success. The listenership formed around true crime podcasts becomes a community that advocates for victims and resolution for families. South African victims now have their own voice too.
True Crime South Africa publishes weekly, alternating between full-length case episodes and shorter minisodes which discuss true crime cases that are currently in the media. The podcast launched on the 22nd of June 2019 and is making waves in the South African podcast community. On the True Crime South Africa social media pages, South African true crime fans finally have a place to call home where they can express their views on cases and discuss the details with like-minded people.
True Crime South Africa is published in conjunction with Arena Holdings, publishers of TimesLIVE, BusinessLIVE, and SowetanLIVE.
Keywords: crime, true crime, murder, abduction, South Africa, police, law and order
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Previous Episodes
- Child Abduction in South Africa - Stolen Girl Official Companion Podcast Part 2 07.09.2025
- Stolen Girl Official Companion Podcast Episode 1 - Finding Nadia 05.09.2025
- Episode 192 The Murder of Rachel Tshabalala 31.08.2025
- TCSA Rewind: Episode 110 Part 3 The Murder of Marna Engelbrecht & Sharnelle Hough (with new eps) 23.08.2025
- TCSA Rewind: Episode 110 Part 2 The Murder of Marna Engelbrecht & Sharnelle Hough (with new eps) 23.08.2025
- TCSA Rewind: Episode 110 Part 1 The Murder of Marna Engelbrecht & Sharnelle Hough (with new eps) 23.08.2025
- Interview: Moving Criminal Cases Forward with Sophia Dewberry 23.08.2025
- Episode 191 The Murder of Dillie Scholtz 10.08.2025
- Revisiting Sithole: The ABC Killer Series - Review, Interview & More 02.08.2025
- Episode 190 A Deadly Weekend 26.07.2025
- Episode 189 The Murder of Chevonne Rusch 20.07.2025
- Episode 188 The Jooste Family Massacre 29.06.2025
- Episode 187 The Murder of Elizabeth Martiens 20.06.2025
- TCSA Rewind: Episode 6 The Steenkamp Family Murders (with updates) 13.06.2025
- Episode 186 The Murder of Marleen Konings 01.06.2025
- Episode 185 The Serial Crimes of Moeketsi Ramaisa 30.05.2025
- Episode 184 The Murder of Petro Nel & Issie Fourie Part 2 of 2 22.05.2025
- Episode 184 The Murder of Petro Nel & Issie Fourie Part 1 of 2 22.05.2025
- TCSA Rewind: Episode 30 The Murder of Taliep Petersen (with updates) 11.05.2025
- Deadlines, Updates & What to Expect in May & June 09.05.2025
