The bail application of the Thulsie brothers, Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee is expected to start in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The twins are charged with contravening the Protection of Constitutional Democracy against Terrorist and Related Activities Act. Last week National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Phindi Louw told journalists outside[…]
Two alleged kingpins in a social grant scam involving the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa), were released on R30 000 bail each, when they appeared in court on Thursday Neliswa Msimango, of Durban North, and Nombuyiselo Sigcua, of Umtata in the Eastern Cape, launched a bail application in the[…]
Loud applause greeted a prosecutor’s demand on Thursday that four men accused of the rape, murder and robbery of a teenager in Tokai Forest in Cape Town, be denied bail. There were also gasps in the public gallery when prosecutor Rene Uys told the court that 16-year-old Franziska Blochliger died[…]
A group of concerned community members are to picket outside the Muizenberg Magistrate’s Court at the bail hearing of a man suspected of stabbing to death 10-year old, Micholine Jantjies at a local play park last week. The accused, 20, is also alleged to have attacked the girl’s 15-year old[…]
AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo will be spending Christmas with his family after his bail conditions were extended until December 30 by the Mthatha High Court on Wednesday afternoon. Dalindyebo’s lawyers apparently went into the judge’s chambers on Wednesday at 15:00 and emerged two hours later with the ruling. The king’s[…]
A man accused of beating the mother of his four-month-old child to death will spend Christmas behind bars. The bail application of Andrew Makeleni, who appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Monday, was postponed to January 8. The State has indicated they would oppose his release. The decision was[…]
The State has indicated it will oppose bail for a 79-year-old man accused of killing a man on his Athlone property. The man made a brief appearance in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court on Monday and is being held in the hospital section of Pollsmoor Prison because of his age, his[…]
Only one of the three suspects accused of the kidnapping and murder of a Strandfontein man is continuing his application to be released on bail. Romano Jenniker and Warren Challen, two of the three men arrested for the brutal murder of 26-year-old Chad Baron, appeared before Magistrate Walter Golding in[…]
Limpopo businessman Rameez Patel has been granted bail of R250 000 again – in a second murder case – to enable him to “parent his children”. Magistrate Ndivhuwo Munyai said on Thursday that the court was satisfied that Patel had managed to prove compelling circumstances to have him released. Patel[…]
The State will be opposing bail when the application is heard in the inciting of violence case against “poo protester” Andile Lili on Wednesday. Lili, 40, appeared before Magistrate Cyril Krautz in the Bellville Magistrate’s court on Friday morning. Asking that bail be denied, the State’s Peter John Damon cited[…]
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