British businessman Shrien Dewani never sent a text message to his shuttle driver hours before he and his wife were hijacked, his lawyer told the Western Cape High Court on Monday. Francois van Zyl, for Dewani, was trying to show that murder convicted driver Zola Tongo was lying about communication[…]
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius seemed shy and did not show much affection towards Reeva Steenkamp, her cousin Kim Martin told the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday. “I still remember thinking ‘he’s just standing there’. He came across as quite shy,” Martin said to questions from prosecutor Gerrie Nel. She was[…]
A prison will not be able to secure Oscar Pistorius’s safety, the High Court in Pretoria heard on Tuesday. “My opinion is that the accused is vulnerable [in prison]. They cannot eliminate his vulnerability and they cannot secure his safety,” Annette Vergeer said under cross-examination from prosecutor Gerrie Nel. “That[…]
British businessman Shrien Dewani’s trial, for the murder of his wife Anni, will resume in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday with the State expected to call a new witness. The trial was postponed on Monday after hearing evidence from two State witnesses. Dewani’s lawyer Francois van Zyl continued[…]
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel tried to discredit two of the witnesses called by Oscar Pistorius’s defence in sentencing procedures in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday. Barry Roux, for Pistorius, called three witnesses on Monday — the athlete’s psychologist Dr Lore Hartzenberg, his manager Petrus van Zyl, and correctional services[…]
Security would be tight at the Polokwane High Court for EFF leader Julius Malema’s trial Limpopo police said on Sunday. “Members of the SAPS will be monitoring and patrolling the area in and around the court, as well as the city centre and identified areas in Seshego with the aim[…]
Oscar Pistorius’s family has been warned to keep the culpable homicide-convict on the straight and narrow in the next month while he awaits sentencing. In its opposition to the extension of Pistorius’s R1 million bail, the State referred to an altercation in a Sandton nightclub in July. However, in granting[…]
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius might be found guilty of killing an intruder, if not his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a lawyer said on Monday. “I think there is quite a significant risk that Oscar could be convicted of murdering the intruder,” defence lawyer William Booth told the Cape Town Press Club. “He[…]
Paralympic double amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius is guilty of the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, the State said in the High Court in Pretoria on Friday. “My lady, he knew it was a human being in the toilet. His intention was to kill a human being,” prosecutor Gerrie Nel[…]
Final arguments in paralympian Oscar Pistorius’ murder trial will be heard in the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday. Prosecutor Gerrie Nel accused Pistorius of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in “cold blood” on February 14 last year at his Pretoria home. Nel said the court should find that Pistorius’s[…]
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