Adv. Moipone Noko, Director of Public Prosecution for the North West division, yesterday announced that the state is taking steps to appeal the sentence of a fine for a convicted rapist. This follows after AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit wrote a letter to Shamila Batohi, Head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), in this regard. Magistrate…
The civil rights watchdog AfriForum today indicated during a media conference in Centurion that they will approach the court with a mandamus application to force the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to make decisions regarding the prosecution of Julius Malema, Leader of the EFF, concerning three pending cases against him. These three cases in which Malema…
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) today informed AfriForum that they are going to prosecute Julius Malema, Leader of the EFF, and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, EFF Spokesperson, for the alleged assault of a colonel in the SAPS. This follows AfriForum’s announcement in July this year that they would approach the court with a mandamus application to force…
AfriForum welcomed the court’s decision today not to acquit Duduzane Zuma (son of former President Jacob Zuma) on a charge of culpable homicide and a charge of reckless and negligent driving. The case has been postponed to 15 May 2019, when the defence team will start leading its witnesses. Zuma Jr’s defence team brought an application in…
AfriForum welcomes the fact that Duduzane Zuma, son of former President Jacob Zuma, had to testify today in the case of culpable homicide and reckless and negligent driving against him. Zuma Jr was called as the defence’s first witness in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court. The case was postponed until tomorrow morning 08:30 after the stenograph broke…
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) informed Adv. Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, that the NPA has issued warrants of arrest for two of the four alleged murderers of Col. Patrick Karegeya, the former Rwandan Head of Intelligence. The NPA is also in the process of applying for the extradition of Ismael Gafaranga…
AfriForum today submitted numerous protest letters of residents across the country against the president’s request – that municipalities countrywide must transport 18 000 people to the presidential inauguration in Pretoria on 25 May 2019 – at the National Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in Pretoria. The civil rights organisation also sent a protest letter to the…
AfriForum condemns the decision by the presidency to press on with today’s exorbitant inauguration ceremony. In spite of the presidency’s reassurance that taxpayers have to cough up R100 million less than for the previous presidential inauguration, R120 million still is an enormous amount to spend on a one-off and unnecessary ceremony such as this. Nkosazana…
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and Genl. Johan Booysen, former Head of the Hawks in KwaZulu-Natal who was presumably unlawfully suspended by Nomgcobo Jiba, today filed criminal charges of perjury and defeating the ends of justice against Shaun Abrahams, the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP). This follows after the North Gauteng High Court found…
Adv. Gerrie Nel, Head of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, today appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court in a judicial inquest into the death of Col. Patrick Karegeya, the former Head of Intelligence in Rwanda. The magistrate will give judgement on Monday 21 January 2019 regarding AfriForum’s application that the judicial inquiry be stopped. Karegeya, who…
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