Former president Jacob Zuma’s legal team is expected to file an application to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Tuesday as it seeks a review of National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams’ decision that there was no reason for him not to stand trial. The 16 charges relate to the[…]
Two senior allies of Burkina Faso’s deposed former President Blaise Compaore and scores of others appeared in court on Tuesday accused of organizing a 2015 coup attempt against a transitional government. Protesters, angered by Compaore’s attempt to change the constitution to extend his 27-year rule, forced him to flee the[…]
The trial of Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen, who allegedly forced Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin, is set to continue on Thursday in the High Court of the Middleburg Magistrate’s Court. The two men are facing charges of kidnapping, assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, attempted murder, and[…]
The trial of 19 men accused of killing several non-striking miners in Marikana in 2012, will resume in the North West High Court sitting in Rustenburg on Monday. The men are also charged with killing two policemen and two security guards. One of them, Anele Zonke, is already serving a[…]
The case against Christopher Panayiotou and co-accused Sizwezhake Vumazonke has once again been postponed, to the obvious annoyance of Panayiotou’s defence team. Panayiotou is accused of orchestrating the murder of his 29-year-old wife Jayde in April. He is accused of paying his employee Luthando Siyoli, 31, to act as a[…]
Oscar Pistorius cannot afford a new trial, and it would be too long and complex, his lawyer Barry Roux argues in papers filed with the Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday. The former Paralympic athlete’s initial trial was subject to intense public scrutiny, which would “contaminate and confuse” the reliability[…]
The woman who allegedly kidnapped a newborn baby girl from her hospital crib at Groote Schuur Hospital 18 years ago is expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of kidnapping and fraud. During the last court appearance, the matter was postponed for an indictment.[…]
“Five years are not enough for the life she took,” Catherine Wannenberg said on the steps of the Western Cape High Court on Thursday. This after Natasha Hansen was handed a five year sentence for the murder of Wannenberg’s son Gershwin Isaacs, 5, who was beaten to death 11 years[…]
The Polokwane businessman on trial for killing his wife was arrested on Friday in connection with another murder committed two years ago, Limpopo police said. Rameez Patel, who was out on bail of R250 000, was arrested at his workplace in connection with the death of Tony Adams in Westenburg,[…]
An Egyptian court has adjourned the long-running retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists for the ninth time, with the next hearing scheduled for August 2. Australian Peter Greste, Egyptian Baher Mohamed, and Canadian Mohamed Fahmy were found guilty in June 2014 of aiding a terrorist organisation, a reference to the[…]
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