Cape Town Mayor, Patricia de Lille is back at the Western Cape High Court on Thursday. She is challenging the Democratic Alliance’s internal Steenhuisen report, which found that she could be guilty of gross misconduct. On Wednesday, the High Court ruled in favour of De Lille in her application to[…]
1,2 million voters will be removed from the voters roll before the 2019 elections, if the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) isn’t given a grace period. The Constitutional Court has given the IEC 18 months to comply with its 2016 ruling of the Constitutional Court. The deadline to obtain all addresses[…]
By Loushe Jordaan Emotions were high at the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s court on Wednesday as the suspect in the Stacey Adams murder case made his first court appearance. The suspect, Christopher Lee Brown, portrayed had a stone cold face and at one point smiled, as he stood in the dock.[…]
By Dr Salim Parker I looked at the photo. It was a black and white one, looking faded as you would expect a fifty-year-old, frequently exposed to the elements polaroid to be. Yet, its texture was pristine, a tribute to the loving nature with which it had been handled and[…]
By Thakira Desai Following the discovery of Stacey Adams’ remains and her subsequent burial, the role of the 6-year-old’s father in her life has been called into question. The family has since confirmed to VOC News that the father was left devastated upon hearing the news of her murder. The[…]
The Western Cape High Court has ordered that the termination of Patricia de Lille’s DA membership by the party was illegal and invalid. The decision was set aside, and the party ordered to pay the Cape Town mayor’s legal costs. High Court judge Andre le Grange handed down the judgment,[…]
American-Muslims have decried a US Supreme Court ruling that upheld a controversial travel ban on five Muslim-majority countries, expressing anger and fear over what it will mean for them and their families. Dozens of people gathered outside the court building on Tuesday, holding banners and shouting slogans such as “No[…]
The death sentence of a Sudanese teen convicted for killing her husband she alleges was trying to rape her was overturned on Tuesday, her lawyer said. Since being sentenced to death by hanging last month, the case of Noura Hussein, 19, has garnered international attention. Campaigners have gathered round her[…]
The panic that emerged after Day Zero was announced was instrumental in getting Capetonians to cut water consumption substantially – but a water-saving programme driven by fear is not sustainable. This is the view of Gina Ziervogel, an associate professor at UCT’s Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, one of[…]
A 42-year-old mother from Cape Town is planning on taking Metrorail to court after she sustained third-degree burns and lung damage when the train she was travelling in was set on fire last month. Leigh Jansen was on a train travelling between the Ottery and Southfield train stations on her[…]
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