Cape Town - Ellen Pakkies, who strangled her tik-addict son in 2007 and was later acquitted of murder, was one of the women who recently served on a panel focusing on gender-based violence. She spoke ...

Cape Town – In 2007 Ellen Pakkies made headlines when she killed her abusive tik-addicted son. The mother from Lavender Hill was given a three year suspended sentence and community work. And now her ...

The story of Ellen Pakkies will be screened at an international film festival in America. "Ellen, The Ellen Pakkies Story" which was released in South African cinemas in September, has landed a spot ...

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Ellen Pakkies, the Lavender Hill mother who made international headlines for the 2007 killing of her drug-addicted son, has announced her candidacy for Mayor of Cape Town. Representing the National ...

In one image from “Ex-Offenders at the Scene of the Crime,” a series by the South African photographer David Goldblatt, we see an older woman named Ellen sitting on a slim bed in a bare-bones room.

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