The North Gauteng High Court on Tuesday granted an urgent application against all major media groups in South Africa to protect the identity of a Cape Town girl who was kidnapped at birth. Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann granted an urgent order in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to the[…]
Suspended police crime intelligence unit head Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli and Colonel Heine Barnard are expected to appear in the Pretoria Commercial Crimes Court on Wednesday on fraud charges. “It will be a mere postponement,” National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Velekhaya Mgobhozi said on Tuesday. The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on[…]
A court in Cairo has adjourned the retrial of Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed until April 22. Fahmy and Mohamed were jailed on charges of aiding a “terrorist organisation” and were freed on bail on February 12 after more than 400 days, but the court said the[…]
The provisional sequestration order against Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema regarding his outstanding tax bill will be argued in the High Court in Pretoria in June. “I rule that the matter be extended to June 1. Costs reserved,” Judge Ferdi Preller said in the same court on Monday. Nic[…]
A woman who allegedly stole a newborn baby at Groote Schuur Hospital 18 years ago is expected to appear in the Cape Town District Court on Friday. Levina Sabena Solomon, 50, of Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats, appeared last month a day after being arrested on February 26. She[…]
More than 10 000 claimants aligned with the District Six Working Committee (D6WC), are planning to take launch a court bid against the Land Claims Commissions, in a bid to redress what the representative body has described as a ‘much flawed’ restitution process. The group has noted alleged cases of[…]
Four suspended Economic Freedom Fighters MPs on Wednesday lodged an application in the High Court in Johannesburg asking it to nullify the outcome of the party’s first elective congress. “In the application to the high court, the members allege numerous instances of violation of the constitution of the party as[…]
Energy Minister, Tina Joemat-Petterson is set to face court action at the hands of environmental awareness group, Greenpeace, who on Monday filed a case at the Pretoria High Court in a bid to halt the country’s proposed nuclear expansion project. The NGO wants the minister to adhere to sections 29[…]
With child victims of rape and sexual assault often experiencing major difficulties in finding the confidence to testify against alleged perpetrators, it has become an all too common occurrence to see such cases dropped. As such, local child protection NGO, Childline SA has called for better court preparation for victims[…]
VOC News joined Mayoral member for Transport Councillor Brett Herron and a few journalists on a bus ride along the MyCiti Mitchell’s Plain-Claremont bus route on Friday morning. The proposed bus routes form part of Phase 2 of the MyCiti service to the metro-south east. This proposed route was developed[…]
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