# Die Konstitusionele Hof het die voormalige Openbare Beskermer, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, se aansoek van die hand gewys om regstreeks daarheen te appelleer oor die weiering om haar gratifikasie van tien-miljoen-rand uit te betaal. News24 berig Mkhwebane beweer sy het gely as gevolg van die weiering, maar die hof het geen gronde vir ‘n regstreekse appèlaansoek […]
# Die Gautengse Hooggeregshof wat in Benoni sit het twee apartheids-polisiebeamptes se Artikel 174-aansoeke van die hand gewys in die Caiphus Nyoka-moordverhoor. Die aktivis van die studente-organisasie Cosas is in 1987 nege keer geskiet. Leon van den Berg en Abraham Engelbrecht het aangevoer dat die staat geen saak teen hulle het nie, maar die hof […]
# Police minister Senzo Mchunu says new forensic labs will be built in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the Free State. This will help speed up DNA testing and reduce toxicology backlogs. Mchunu told the media these new facilities will boost the capacity of the South African Police Service to process evidence faster, improve the […]
# Die Veldtog vir Vrye Uitdrukking veroordeel die minister van Sport, Gayton McKenzie, se onlangse opdrag om buitelandse burgers in die Departement van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur te ontslaan. Direkteur Nicole Fritz noem die opmerking ongrondwetlik en skandelik en waarsku dat McKenzie nie die wettige gesag het om sulke optrede af te dwing nie. Sy […]
# The Constitutional Court has dismissed former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s attempt to appeal directly to it over her denied ten-million-rand gratuity. According to News24, Mkhwebane claimed she was suffering due to the delay in payment, but the court found no grounds for direct appeal. Chief Justice Mandisa Maya and the court’s other justices unanimously […]
# The Gauteng High Court sitting in Benoni has dismissed a Section 174 application by two apartheid-era police officers accused of the murder of Caiphus Nyoka. The Congress of South African Students activist was shot nine times in 1987. Leon van den Berg and Abraham Engelbrecht argued the state didn’t present a compelling case, but […]
# Die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, het bewerings van ‘n wit volksmoord in Suid-Afrika as ongegrond en misleidend afgemaak. Mchunu het die media tydens die vrystelling van die kwartaallikse misdaadsyfers meegedeel daar is geen bewyse om die bewering te staaf dat wit Suid-Afrikaners spesifiek geteiken word vir gewelddadige aanvalle nie. Hy het die publiek […]
# Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu has dismissed claims of a white genocide in South Africa as unfounded and misleading. Addressing the media during the release of the quarterly crime statistics, Mchunu said there was no evidence to support the narrative that white South Africans are being specifically targeted for violent attacks. He urged the […]
# The Campaign for Free Expression has condemned Sport minister Gayton McKenzie’s recent directive to dismiss foreign nationals in the Sport, Arts and Culture Department. Director Nicole Fritz called the remarks unconstitutional and shameful, warning that McKenzie lacks the legal authority to enforce such action. She says the statement violates South Africa’s Constitution, labour laws, […]
