It has been five months since former police officer Johan Marais pleaded guilty to the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka, yet sentencing proceedings were delayed again on Monday.
The Competition Tribunal said on Monday it has dismissed a bid by MultiChoice seeking to declare an accusation it and the SABC implemented a merger transaction in 2013 as without legal merit, meaning a hearing will now proceed in due course.
New evidence that the National Prosecuting Authority plans on presenting in the reopened inquest into the 1967 death of former ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli includes the scene simulation and testimony from a witness who drives and owns a similar train to the one that it was claimed hit and killed Luthuli.
A second suspect has been arrested in connection with last week’s fatal shooting inside the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court, said Western Cape deputy police commissioner Major General Bongani Maqashalala on Monday.
A grieving father whose ex-girlfriend allegedly raped and murdered his 4-year-old daughter has told the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg how in the months leading up to the tragedy, she threatened him – saying, “I’ll show you how I’m going to kill your f***ing child”.
Former Moja Love presenter Xolani Khumalo walked out of the Palm Ridge Regional Court a happy man on Monday, vowing a return to the streets to fight drugs.
The director-general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Dr Jean Kaseya, has described the South African government’s decision to purchase vaccines from abroad instead of supporting local manufacturers as “a shame”.