Don’t bully witness‚ judge tells Van Breda lawyer
Henri van Breda’s defence counsel‚ Piet Botha‚ was reprimanded in court on Monday for “bullying” a witness in the stand. The state had called Sergeant Clinton Malan‚ who took Van Breda’s statement on...
View ArticleCourt bid to avoid school funding crisis
An Eastern Cape school together with the Centre for Child Law (CCL) have challenged in court the provincial education department’s decision to stop funding school pupils who did not have an official...
View ArticleConvicted husband killer not mourning
Convicted husband-killer Noluthando Baleni yesterday shocked the Mthatha High Court when she revealed she did not mourn her husband, but went on with her life as normal. Baleni, who took the stand and...
View ArticleScribe in high court drama
Drama erupted at the Mthatha Magistrate’s Court yesterday when family members of the five Walter Sisulu University students facing charges of murder prevented a young freelance journalist from taking...
View ArticleDA‚ Zuma welcome court granting president leave to appeal ruling on Gordhan...
Both Jacob Zuma and the Democratic Alliance have welcomed the high court’s decision to grant the president leave to appeal against the order that he has to provide the record of decision and reasons...
View ArticleMalema back in court over ‘land invasion’ call
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema’s call for people to occupy or invade land saw him appear briefly in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court on Monday. He is alleged to have contravened the...
View ArticleAll footprints in Van Breda house accounted for‚ police expert tells court
If an intruder broke into 12 Goske Street to attack the Van Breda family‚ he seems not to have left any bloody footprints. This was implied by shoe print expert Danie Van der Westhuizen‚ who visited...
View ArticleLibode community calls for no bail
Three suspects, one believed to be a Walter Sisulu University student, appeared in a packed Libode Magistrate’s Court yesterday for the murder of 10-year-old Liyema Dutywa. The girl’s body was found in...
View ArticleCannibal accused to go for evaluation
The Port St Johns Magistrate’s Court yesterday agreed to allow Mandisi Gwanya, accused of killing his four-year-old nephew Kamvelihle Ngala, to be sent for psychiatric evaluation. The 30-year-old...
View ArticleMurder accused case delayed for 10 days
Three suspects accused of murdering 10-year-old Liyema Dutywa will spend another 10 days behind bars after their case was postponed in the Libode Magistrate’s Court today. Fuzile Hanise, 30, Asanda...
View ArticleMalema in court as lawyer appears
EFF leader Julius Malema arrived at the Thabamoopo Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo on Tuesday ahead of his lawyer Tumi Mokwena’s appearance. Mokwena is facing four charges of attempted murder after he...
View ArticleCourt ruling on religion in schools a sad day for Christianity: Priest
ARETHA LINDEN and ENERST MABUZA Eastern Cape schools and a church reacted with mixed feelings yesterday to a Gauteng High Court ruling that schools are not allowed to favour one religion over another....
View ArticleSlain mom had protection order
A day before she was murdered, allegedly by her husband, an East London mother of two obtained an interim protection order against him. This emerged during a formal bail application by the...
View ArticleCourt dismisses application to acquit two of accused in Panayiotou murder trial
An application to have two of the men accused of conspiring to kill Jayde Panayiotou acquitted at the close of the state’s case was dismissed by Judge Dayalin Chetty in the Port Elizabeth High Court on...
View ArticleWhy Karabo Mokoena’s alleged killer was denied bail
Murder accused Sandile Mantsoe’s decision to not take the stand in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court may have contributed to his being denied bail on Friday. The 27-year-old is accused of murdering...
View ArticleLife sentence for rapist stepdad who turned ‘stepdaughters into wives’
Judge Cassim Moosa on Monday showed no mercy as he handed down multiple life terms to a 51-year-old man convicted of raping his two step daughters for years on end. Delivering his judgment in the...
View ArticleMalema in court for land invasion comments
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema is back in the dock on Tuesday‚ his party announced on Twitter. Malema’s trial is set for two days in the Newcastle regional court in KwaZulu-Natal. He is...
View ArticleWoman who ran over boy found guilty: Footage shows driver skipped stops
A sobbing Nicolene Rhoda Hickman, 33, who drove over a four-year-old boy at a shopping centre, was found guilty of culpable homicide by the East London District Court yesterday. The incident happened...
View ArticleMagistrate calls public to order in Liyema murder case
The magistrate presiding over the murder case of 10-year-old Liyema Dutywa yesterday urged Libode residents to let the courts administer justice. “Everyone is doing their job,” Libode magistrate...
View ArticleGuilty plea in EL: Man admits to killing girlfriend, kids
An East London father who shot dead his girlfriend and two children before turning the gun on himself twice last year, pleaded guilty to all charges in the East London Regional Court. Fezile Mjacu, 37,...
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