Lineveldt was born in 1919 in the Cape. Between 1940 and 1941 he attacked four women, raping them and killing them by beating with a length of piping and with an axe. The killings were in the Cape Town area.
He was arrested on March 16, 1941 and sentenced to death on June 10 of that year. He was hanged in 1942.
The case is cited in South African law rather than in criminal history. Rex v. Lineveldt went to the Appellate Division on the question of whether statements he had made to police were admissible, and the judgment is part of the line of authority on confessions obtained in custody under the pre-1948 Cape system. Anyone using this entry should know that the legal reporting is more substantial than the criminal reporting.
The victims are not named in anything accessible, which for a case of four murders in 1941 South Africa is not surprising and is worth stating: they were working-class women of colour in wartime Cape Town, and the contemporary record did not treat their names as material.