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A man was charged with 76 counts of murder and 86 counts of attempted murder on Thursday for allegedly causing a deadly fire at an apartment building in South Africa last year that was one of the ...
S v M is a 2007 decision of the Constitutional Court of South Africa with import for children's rights and criminal sentencing.The court held unanimously that the best interests of the child must be considered whenever a child's primary caregiver is handed a criminal sentence.
Thabo Bester (born 13 June 1986) [4] is a South African convicted rapist and murderer who escaped from the Mangaung Correctional Centre in South Africa after faking his death in a fire in his prison cell in May 2022. [5] [6] He was on the run for almost a year before being caught in Arusha, Tanzania on 8 April 2023. [7]
In 2003, Rashied Staggie was sentenced to jail after he was convicted for ordering the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl who had turned state witness against him. [5] Staggie was sentenced to 15 years for kidnapping and rape. [5] In 2004, he was convicted of burglary from the Faure police armoury and sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Cape Times billboard following the arrest of Pistorius in February 2013. The bail hearing commenced on 19 February 2013 before Chief Magistrate of Pretoria, Desmond Nair. [3] [19] On the first day of the bail hearing, Magistrate Nair ruled that Pistorius was charged with a Schedule 6 criminal offence, which relates to serious crimes including premeditated murder and requires exceptional ...
Jacob Zuma, the former President of South Africa, was imprisoned on 7 July 2021 following a finding by the Constitutional Court of South Africa that he was guilty of contempt of court. The charges originated in Zuma's refusal to provide testimony to Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's judicial commission of inquiry into alleged state capture ...
S v Singo [1] is an important case in South African criminal procedure, heard in the Constitutional Court on 12 March 2002, with judgment delivered on 12 June 2002. The presiding officers were Chaskalson CJ, Langa DCJ, Ackermann J, Goldstone J, Kriegler J, Madala J, Ngcobo J, O'Regan J, Sachs J, Du Plessis AJ and Skweyiya AJ.
The Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 lists four methods of securing the attendance of an accused person in court. [4] These bear an important relationship to the constitutional rights of freedom and security of the person, [5] of freedom of movement and residence, [6] of access to the courts [7] and of "arrested, detained and accused persons."