The case of the man dubbed the Northern Cape’s own Tinder Swindler has been postponed to the 30th of this month. Forty-eight-year-old Pius Emokpe is expected to apply for bail during his next court appearance. On Wednesday, Emokpe fired his legal aid attorney and instead hired a private attorney. Emokpe[…]
Alleged Parliament arsonist Zandile Mafe is expected to appear in the Western Cape High Court to appeal a lower court’s refusal to grant him bail. Mafe was arrested in January on charges of starting the devastating fire that destroyed parts of the National Assembly in January. The 49-year-old had earlier been[…]
A United States federal judge has sided with sportswear giant Nike Inc in ordering a company in New York to temporarily stop further sales of “Satan Shoes” it produced in collaboration with the rapper Lil Nas X. US District Judge Eric Komitee in Brooklyn ruled three days after Nike sued[…]
Government may be winning court cases seeking to challenge their response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but they are losing public buy-in. This is according to Professor Thuli Madonsela who said government was creating a situation where the people were fighting to evade the government instead of fighting to combat the[…]
The District Six Working Committee will on Saturday host a meeting to outline the Western Cape High Court ruling which gives the Land Reform and Rural Development Minister and the Commission of Land Rights three months to produce a comprehensive plan, together with a budget and funding, to deal with[…]
The case against Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir and seven others accused of conspiring to kill a police officer and a forensic investigator was postponed to next Wednesday in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court, sitting as the High Court in Johannesburg, on Friday. ”The case against all of you is postponed[…]
As the Lentegeur community continue in their plight to have alleged drug kingpin Fadwaan “Vet” Murphy removed from the area, residents say Murphy has hindered their efforts by opening a case of malicious damage to his property, at the local police station. According to one of the four residents implicated,[…]
Sentencing of a Zimbabwean man who pleaded guilty to stabbing Mbuyiselo Manona and removing his heart was expected to take place on Wednesday in the Cape Town High Court. Andrew Chimboza, 35, stated in his plea explanation that he stabbed Manona, 62, to death at the home of a former[…]
The case of 17 people accused of murdering six Kraaifontein men was postponed in the Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court, Cape Town, the Western Cape Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday. “The case was postponed to Friday for a bail application,” spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said. On December 9, the bodies of six[…]
An urgent application to prohibit the use of mobile network blocking devices in Parliament was postponed in the High Court in Cape Town on Tuesday afternoon. The postponement follows negotiations between lawyers for Parliament and those for media houses Primedia Broadcasting and Media24. “Regrettably, those negotiations have failed,” Steven Budlender,[…]
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