THE MURDER OF DEVENEY NEL

164pp., colour illus., paperback, Tafelberg, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9780624093169

In August 2024, 16-year-old Deveney Nel was stabbed to death at Overberg High School in Caledon by a fellow student who had committed a violent crime four years earlier. He is currently awaiting trial.

Rapport’s crime reporter Julian Jansen has covered the case from the beginning. He reconstructs the events leading to the tragedy, investigates the failures of the state and confronts questions about accountability, rehabilitation and justice in contemporary South Africa.

Also available in Afrikaans.

Julian Jansen's other books include The De Zalza Murders, Seuns Sonder Pa's and Stellenbosch: Murder town.