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City drops charges against Hendricks

The City of Cape Town has dropped all charges against city councillor Ganief Hendricks related to statements he made on the controversial Open Mosque in Wynberg. The City Speaker, Alderman Dirk Smit requested the Al Jama-ah party leader provide a letter, giving reasons why he should not be charged “for[…]

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UK drops charges against Begg

The prosecution of former Guantánamo inmate Moazzam Begg has dramatically collapsed after the police and crown prosecutors were handed secret intelligence material which undermined the terrorism case against him. Five days before Begg was due to go on trial on a string of terrorism charges, prosecutors announced at the Old[…]

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EFF files urgent interdict against charges

The EFF on Monday filed an application with the Western Cape High Court for an urgent interdict to halt Parliament’s disciplinary charges against 20 of its MPs. “We filed this morning. We are now waiting for a hearing date,” Economic Freedom Fighters spokesman Mbyuseni Ndlozi said. The application was filed[…]

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Arms deal cases ‘disappeared’: De Lille

Charges laid against some individuals by Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille were never followed up and disappeared, she told the Seriti Commission of Inquiry on Thursday. “Cases were never investigated and documents disappeared,” she told the commission sitting in Pretoria. “Cases I laid against McCarthy and Ngcuka had disappeared[…]

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Pagad charge under review

Members of the People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) expressed their relief on Wednesday, after a criminal charge against a Pagad leader in was taken under review by the investigating officers. Pagad member Mogammad Kieraan was charged with malicious damage to property, after the windows of a known drug merchant’s[…]

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