Clive Derby-Lewis’s bid for medical parole is expected to be heard as a special motion in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday. He has been in hospital since last year to receive treatment for cancer. The Department of Correctional Services has not disclosed the name of the hospital. Currently[…]
Six years after convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik was released on medical parole, apparently terminally ill, he has applied for ordinary parole, Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha said on Monday. The department had received correspondence from the medical parole advisory board in which “offender Shaik” had asked for his[…]
Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha will consider a recommendation by a correctional services council on whether apartheid-era assassin Eugene de Kock should be granted parole. “Those recommendations [by the national council] are not going to be made public,” Masutha’s spokesman Mthunzi Mhaga said on Friday. However, Mhaga said the recommendations[…]
The High Court in Pretoria will hear an urgent appeal for medical parole on behalf of Clive Derby-Lewis on Tuesday, Front National said. “The legal representatives will argue that administrative incompetence on the part of the department of correctional services is the root cause of the rapid decline in the[…]
Apartheid-era assassin Eugene de Kock will file an application in the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday to have his parole refusal set aside. In August, Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha announced that De Kock, who has been nicknamed “Prime Evil”, would have to wait another year before[…]
Christoff Becker, one of the “Waterkloof Four” convicted of killing a homeless man, has lost his latest court bid to get parole, Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday. An urgent application before the High Court in Pretoria for him to be released on parole was set aside on Wednesday. Becker’s lawyers[…]
One of Anni Dewani’s convicted killers Mziwamadoda Qwabe wanted an earlier parole date in exchange for testifying against her husband Shrien Dewani, the Western Cape High Court heard on Monday. Francois van Zyl, for Shrien Dewani, asked Qwabe during cross-examination whether he demanded anything from the State before being called[…]
Lawyers for apartheid-era assassin Eugene de Kock have launched a new court bid for him to be considered for parole, the SABC reported on Wednesday. De Kock’s lawyer Julian Knight told the SABC the application would challenge Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha’s decision to delay De Kock’s parole[…]
The National Institute for Crime Prevention and Reintegration of Offenders (NICRO) has expressed concern over the current state of the South African parole system, suggesting correctional services were struggling with a crisis of prisoners who were not properly rehabilitated. They called for more effective ways of integrating parolees back into[…]
Apartheid-era assassin Eugene de Kock can be forgiven and paroled if he shows remorse, the family of one of his victims told the Sowetan newspaper. “If he was to speak to us and connect with us on a human level, and really show he knows what he did was a[…]
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