Here are eight things you ought to know about the State’s case against Henri van Breda. 1. Henri van Breda handed himself over to the police after they informed his advocate, Pieter Botha, of his imminent arrest. He reported to the Stellenbosch police station on Monday afternoon, where he was[…]
Sentencing proceedings for former Paralympian and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius are expected to continue at the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday. Sentencing procedures have been set down for a week before Judge Thokozile Masipa, who originally sentenced Pistorius in October 2014. During Pistorius’s trial on Tuesday, the court was[…]
The structures of the tripartite alliance are not what they should be, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said in Cape Town on Thursday. “Except for during elections and in the build up to conferences, the alliance does not have a coherent and consistent programme of action,” said Ramaphosa in a speech[…]
Police have made contact with ANC provincial leader Marius Fransman’s accuser, she has said in a statement. The 21-year-old Louisa Wynand, through spokesperson Gavin Prins from Red Dot Communication, said she was still puzzled about the true status of the case, but that it was still going ahead. The Stellenbosch[…]
A year and a half since his family was killed in a brutal axe murder, 21-year-old Henri van Breda has handed himself over to the police and will face three counts of murder and one of attempted murder. Henri van Breda handed himself over to the Stellenbosch police on Monday[…]
Sentencing proceedings for former paralympian and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius are expected to continue at the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday. Sentencing procedures have been set down for a week before Judge Thokozile Masipa, who originally sentenced Pistorius in October 2014. In the early hours of February 14, 2013,[…]
The Constitutional Court is expected to announce its ruling on the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) voter address matter on Tuesday. The IEC filed an application with the Constitutional Court in April, asking it to set aside an Electoral Court ruling which it said could see millions of people[…]
Customs officials and the detector dog unit intercepted 30kg of cocaine valued at R9 million at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International on Monday afternoon‚ the South African Revenue Service says. “The tagless black bag arrived on a flight from Sao Paolo‚ arousing a lot of suspicious activity around it‚” Sars said[…]
There can never be any justification for the killing of police officers‚ said Western Cape Community Safety MEC Dan Plato. Plato was reacting on Monday to the killing of a 40-year-old police constable and wounding of a warrant officer by gunmen armed with automatic weapons and explosives at a filling[…]
South African regulators are seeking details from India’s Bank of Baroda of accounts belonging to businesses owned by the Gupta family, intensifying scrutiny of the friends of President Jacob Zuma, according to a person close to the bank with knowledge of the situation. The regulators are asking questions regarding deposits[…]
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