The Bishop Lavis Community Police Forum (CPF) says residents in Valhalla Park are relieved that convicted murderer Cameron Wilson will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Speaking to VOC this morning, CPF chairperson Graham Lindhorst said the stiff sentence handed down to Wilson sent a strong message to[…]
The Western Cape police welcomed the life sentences handed to 20-year-old convicted killer Cameron Wilson on Thursday. Western Cape Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Khombinkosi Jula praised both the investigation and prosecution teams for “a job well done”. “Arresting suspects is one thing but ensuring they remain behind bars and pay their[…]
Amnesty International urged South African authorities to move forward with prosecutions over the killing by police of 34 people in a single day at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum operations five years ago. “The tragedy of the Marikana killings is compounded by the shocking fact that no one responsible for the bloodshed[…]
There was no evidence to suggest that the man accused of plotting to assassinate government officials is s a coup plotter, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Tuesday. Earlier, Elvis Ramosebudi appeared briefly in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on incitement to commit murder charges. He is accused of planning[…]
National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams has really blown it this time in his full-frontal attack against SA Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. In his eagerness to serve political masters, the NPA chief has handed their enemies compelling evidence that he is on a crude vendetta against Gordhan based on trumped-up[…]
The case of DA Member of Parliament and former NPA senior prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach and her lawyer Gerhard Wagenaar will resume in the Pretoria North Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after it was postponed on Monday. Integrity Management Unit acting senior manager Hercules Wasserman is expected to testify. Breytenbach and Wagenaar[…]
Oscar Pistorius’s lawyers will argue that “enough is enough” when his case resumes in court on August 26 to hear an appeal by State prosecutors against his six-year murder sentence on the grounds it is too lenient. In court papers filed by Pistorius’ lawyers on August 11 and seen by[…]
Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan may be arrested again when he arrives back in the country from London on Friday morning. That is, unless his lawyers managed to stop the police and National Prosecuting Authority from doing so. They would apply for an interdict in an urgent application to be heard[…]
If Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan were to be arrested and charged by the Hawks’ crimes against the state unit, it would likely be for contravening the country’s intelligence laws. The Sunday Times reported that Gordhan’s arrest was “imminent”. The Hawks had handed over their docket to the National Prosecuting Authority[…]
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