Four members of Cape Town’s Junky Funky Kids (JFK) gang received life sentences for the murder of rival gang member Simon Johnson in Heideveld last year, in a decision handed down by the Western Cape High Court on Thursday. Acting Judge Dennis Davis found Kylim Bartlett, Rushdien Meyer, Garin Paulse[…]
A man, who admitted to strangling 11-year-old Stacha Arends after she threatened to tell her mother that he had “sexual intercourse” with her, is to hear his fate on Thursday when the Western Cape High Court delivers judgment. Stacha disappeared in Mitchells Plain on the afternoon of March 27, and[…]
The family of 16-month-old Asheeqah Scott was furious after the sentencing of the man, who confessed to her murder, was postponed in the Western Cape High Court on Monday. The sentencing was postponed so that a social worker’s report could be obtained. “It’s just a waste of bloody time,” Asheeqah’s[…]
Henri van Breda is prepared to testify in his own trial – but he wants the cameras turned off. This came to light in the Western Cape High Court on Monday‚ as the trial resumed after more than 50 days of testimony. Van Breda’s counsel‚ Piet Botha‚ told Judge Siraj[…]
Henri van Breda is due back in the Western Cape High Court on Monday where he stands accused of axing his parents and brother to death, seriously injuring his sister Marli, and defeating the ends of justice. Van Breda, 22, pleaded not guilty to these charges and alleged that an[…]
The purpose of prosecuting protest convenors who fail to notify authorities of gatherings is to deter violence and increase peaceful assemblies, the Western Cape High Court heard on Thursday. “We say that unnotified gatherings must be deterred because they have a higher propensity for becoming violent,” argued Advocate Karrisha Pillay,[…]
The Social Justice Coalition (SJC) will challenge what it calls the criminalisation of protests in the Western Cape High Court on Thursday. The action arises after activists from the SJC were arrested on September 11, 2013 during a protest outside the offices of Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille, GroundUp[…]
Howard Oliver, who raped and murdered 16-year-old Franziska Blöchliger, has been sentenced to two life terms plus 15 years in jail in the Western Cape High Court. The sentence was handed down on Wednesday. Oliver, 28, was found guilty of raping and murdering the teen on March 7, 2016 while[…]
An inspection in loco is expected to be held on Monday in the trial of two men accused of raping and killing Sinoxolo Mafevuka in Khayelitsha last year. On Wednesday, lawyers for the two men had many questions about the lighting and conditions of the communal toilets in Khayelitsha where[…]
One of four men initially arrested for raping and killing teenager Franziska Blöchliger is expected to appear in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. Howard Oliver, Jonathan Jonas, and two others originally faced charges of murder, rape and robbery for allegedly beating, raping, and strangling the 16-year-old in Tokai[…]
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