“We are instructed to demand that our clients be compensated for the unjust, unconstitutional and unlawful vicious and malicious assault and distress and trauma [they] were unjustifiably subjected to. Accordingly, payment in the amount of R1m each is to be made.” This is the letter of demand sent by the[…]
CAPE TOWN – Women and Men Against Child Abuse told Eyewitness News on Thursday that it was pleased that a warrant of arrest was issued for a retired Cape Town teacher accused of sexual abuse. The former school teacher, who cannot be named yet, faces sexual assault charges that relate to incidents that[…]
Calls for justice are mounting after a Palestinian-American teenager was brutally beaten by US Police at a traffic stop last month near Chicago. On 28 July, a video filmed by a bystander went viral showing two police officers in Oak Lawn, Illinois, on top of the teen, 17-year-old Hadi Abuatelah, beating him[…]
The man accused of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York pleaded not guilty to second-degree attempted murder and assault charges on Thursday and was held without bail. Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Rushdie, 75, on Friday just before the “The Satanic Verses” author was[…]
LOCAL Two Fish Hoek police officers who were recorded seemingly assaulting an unarmed man in the Western Cape town will appear in court on September 30, said the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) on Tuesday. “The officers were seen in a social media post at the weekend assaulting a member[…]
LOCAL The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is investigating an incident between Fish Hoek police officers and a civilian. Police confirmed that both parties opened assault cases against each other. Videos of this weekends’ altercation have gone viral on social media. According to Western Cape SAPS spokesperson, Brigadier Novela Potelwa,[…]
The Cape Town magistrate’s court on Wednesday cleared EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu of a charge of common assault after his successful application for the court not to prosecute him at the close of the state’s case. Magistrate Lindiwe Gura rejected the complainant’s and witnesses’ evidence as contradictory. She added[…]
Eastern Cape police were on Thursday morning trying to ascertain if an assault on several women in what appears to be a police station occurred this week, and where. The incident came to light in a video shared on Twitter, depicting a man hitting and wrestling with several women who[…]
Jaco Stander, the man accused of physically and verbally assaulting niqaabi, Asheeqah Benjamin was granted R2000 bail in the Paarl magistrate court on Wednesday. Paarl residents and members of the ulema packed the court to support Benjamin. The court heard that Stander has Tourette’s Syndrome and mental health problems. An[…]
The Teddy Bear Clinic says it has assisted children as young as five that have instigated or orchestrated instances of sexual violence, having full awareness of the wrong they were about to commit. The clinic’s director, Dr Shaheda Omar, spoke to VOC’s Breakfast Beat show following the alleged gang rape[…]
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