Overview
- The Department of Correctional Services confirmed Pangkaeker died in his sleep on 18 November at Brandvlei Maximum Centre near Worcester, where officials discovered his body and notified his family.
- He was serving nine life terms plus additional years for the kidnapping, rape and murder of eight-year-old Tazne van Wyk, alongside other violent and sexual offences.
- The 2023 sentence recommended no parole and ordered his name placed on the National Sex Offenders Registry.
- The court found he pointed out Tazne’s body to police after his arrest and described him as a deceitful and dangerous offender.
- His criminal record dated to the 1980s, including multiple prior convictions and an episode of absconding from parole supervision in 2015.