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Barry Roux to lead Bushiri defence team
Embattled prophet Shepherd Bushiri has acquired the services of top defence advocate Barry Roux, the Sowetan newspaper reported yesterday. According to the publication, Roux is expected to def...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Constitutional Court saga lawyers
My Advanced Oxford Learners dictionary says, 'saga' means a long story of heroic deeds, events or adventures especially involving several generations of people. It goes further to give the adjective t...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:36hrs | | by Morris Mtisi
Khaya Moyo calls for calm, peace
THE Acting Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services and Zanu-PF national spokesperson, Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday urged Zimbabweans to remain calm and peaceful to allow the Constitutio...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bombing: Barwe feeds reckless ethnic narrative
At the height of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, I read about an interesting concept in South Africa, "swart gevaar" (black danger), as the athlete's defence was that he thought there was an intrude...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Oscar Pistorius's murder sentence increased to 13 years
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein has increased the sentence of former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius to 13 years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp."...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 10:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Police wanted to arrest Grace Mugabe,' says Mbalula
South Africa's Police minister Fikile Mbalula has said his law enforcement agency were ready to arrest Zimbabwe First Lady Grace Mugabe when she assaulted model Gabriella Engels in August but backtrac...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean family engages white supremacists to prosecute Zuma?
South African lobby group Afriforum has announced plans to privately prosecute President Jacob Zuma's son.The group says it wants to prosecute Duduzane Zuma on manslaughter, or culpable homici...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 16:39hrs | | by BBC
Legal fight against Grace Mugabe immunity begins
South African opposition party Democratic Alliance (DA) yesterday launched a Constitutional Court (Con-Court) battle seeking a declaration that the decision by the minister of International Relations ...Published: 26 Aug 2017 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe assault case: Victim offered cash to make charges 'go away'
The 20-year-old South African model that Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe is alleged to have assaulted was offered cash to make potential charges "go away", a lawyer said Thursday.The wife o...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 17:34hrs | | by AFP
Top SA lawyer Gerrie Nel prepares to take on Grace Mugabe
PRIVATE prosecutor Gerrie Nel is preparing to offer his help to the Johannesburg model who accused Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe of assault, Times Live reported.Nel is one of this country...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Oscar Pistorius hospitalised
Oscar Pistorius was taken to the Kalafong Hospital in Pretoria on Thursday morning.According to community newspaper Rekord East, Oscar was taken by ambulance to the casualty section after suff...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 14:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Oscar Pistorius on suicide watch
Jailed murderer Oscar Pistorius has been put on suicide watch following mysterious wrist injuries that landed him in hospital earlier this month, media reported yesterday.Prison officials ...Published: 15 Aug 2016 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Oscar Pistorius sentenced to 6 years
South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.The verdict comes after his initial five-year c...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 10:30hrs | | by BBC
Oscar Pistorius guilty of murder
The South African Supreme Court of Appeal has replaced Oscar Pistorius's culpable homicide conviction with murder, ruling that he should have foreseen the deadly impact his four bullets would have in ...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 08:57hrs | | by online
Reeva's father wants to meet Oscar Pistorius
The father of Reeva Steenkamp said in an interview on Sunday that he wants to meet Oscar Pistorius to seek closure over the killing of his daughter.Pistorius was released last week after a yea...Published: 26 Oct 2015 at 06:25hrs | | by AFP
Oscar Pistorius to be moved to house arrest
Oscar Pistorius is set to be released from prison to house arrest on Tuesday, South Africa parole board says.The decision comes just weeks after a South African parole board delayed his relea...Published: 15 Oct 2015 at 13:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Oscar Pistorius murder charges appeal filed
South African prosecutors have filed an appeal calling for Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.The Olympic and Paralympic athlete was jaile...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 13:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Oscar Pistorius challenges Judge's appeal ruling
Lawyers for jailed South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius have launched a legal bid to prevent prosecutors from appealing against his acquittal on murder charges.Judge Thokozile Masipa ...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 22:10hrs | | by BBC
South Africa and the denial of xenophobia
The history of the 20th century is one of tragic national denials that became fuel and springboards for numerous wars and on the back of which genocide was invented long before there was a word for it...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 13:08hrs | | by Professor Tinyiko Maluleke
Oscar Pistorius may be forced to stay in jail because he has no ankles
Oscar Pistorius may not get early release from jail because the electronic tagging device cannot be fitted securely to his prosthetic leg, it emerged today.The revelation came as South African...Published: 10 Nov 2014 at 21:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Reeva never had sex with Oscar Pistorius
Johannesburg - Reeva Steenkamp's mother, June, has said her daughter never had sex with Oscar Pistorius as "she was scared to take the relationship to the next level".According to the Sunday T...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mother of Pistorius's girlfriend insists she did not want 'revenge'
Petoria - The mother of Oscar Pistorius's girlfriend insisted she did not want "revenge" on Wednesday, the day after the disgraced athlete was handed a five-year jail term for shooting her daughter d...Published: 22 Oct 2014 at 13:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Oscar Pistorius sentenced to 5 years in prison
Double amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to an effective 5 years in prison for the murder of his girl friend in February 2013.After a gruelling long trial Justice Thokozil...Published: 21 Oct 2014 at 09:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
10 years jail recommended for Oscar Pistorius
Judge Thokozile Masipa has announced that Pistorius will be sentenced next Tuesday.The prosecution and defence teams presented their final arguments after the judge cleared Pistorius of murder...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Pistorius should get house arrest, community service'
South African track star Oscar Pistorius should serve three years of partial house arrest and community service for the negligent killing of his girlfriend, a witness said on Monday at the first d...Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 11:08hrs | 1 | by Reuters
'Judge in Oscar Pistorious case is a total moron,' says Donald Trump
American business magnate, investor, television personality and author Donald John Trump has described the "judge in the Oscar Pistorious case is a total moron".Donald Trump wrote on Twitter:...Published: 13 Sep 2014 at 17:19hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Jub Jub and the Pistorius Judgement
Evidently firing four bullets into the door of a small toilet cubicle is less predictably deadly, than drag racing according to our courts.I don't think anybody can claim that Molemo "Jub ...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 14:28hrs | | by timeslive.co.za
Pistorius found guilty of culpable homicide
Judge Thokozile Masipa has found paralympian Oscar Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide in the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine's Day last year, SABC reported. Judge T...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pistorius trial: Judge rules out all murder charges
The judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial has ruled out all murder charges, but says he may still be guilty of culpable homicide (manslaughter).Judge Thokozile Masipa said the prosecution had fai...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 12:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Oscar Pistorius Judgement day
Lunch break on judgement day of the marathon Oscar Pistorius case and shocking headline already is that OSCAR IS NOT GUILTY OF MURDER!Pistorius will not be charged with murder. This was th...Published: 11 Sep 2014 at 12:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Pistorius 'refuses to take any responsibility for his actions'
Pretoria, South Africa - Murder-accused Oscar Pistorius does not take responsibility for his actions and is always the victim, the State argued in the North Gauteng High Court on Thursday."It...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Psychiatric evaluation for Oscar Pistorius
Pretoria - Murder-accused Oscar Pistorius will be sent for psychiatric observation, the North Gauteng High Court ordered on Wednesday."I am satisfied that a case has been laid out... and ...Published: 14 May 2014 at 11:28hrs | | by Sapa
Human Rights group dismisses complaint against Gerrie Nel
JOHANNESBURG - The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Tuesday dismissed a complaint against prosecutor Gerrie Nel.The grievance relates to his cross-examination of murder accused...Published: 15 Apr 2014 at 18:46hrs | | by EWN
Oscar Pistorius lied
Cape Town - After a harrowing week in court and being cross-examined in the dock, Oscar Pistorius has now also been accused of lying to the public by the Sunday Times newspaper.According to t...Published: 13 Apr 2014 at 09:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Murder accused Oscar Pistorius' version untrue - Nel
Pretoria - The version of events by murder accused Oscar Pistorius the night his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead is improbable, the State said on Thursday."Your version is so improbab...Published: 10 Apr 2014 at 14:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'I try not to lie... I'm a Christian,' says Pistorius
Pretoria - Oscar Pistorius told the North Gauteng High Court on Wednesday that he was a Christian and that he tried not to lie."I try not to lie," Pistorius said under cross-examination from ...Published: 09 Apr 2014 at 11:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
As for Oscar Pistorius, I thank Zimbabwe's Mugabe
My mother always said in every bad person, there is a little good. I was watching the proceedings at the Oscar Pistorius case on Sky TV at the comfort of my safe home in the UK. My mind lingered back ...Published: 07 Apr 2014 at 14:36hrs | | by Ryton
Oscar Pistorius will testify
Murder accused Oscar Pistorius will testify in his own defence, his legal team said on Tuesday."I don't think we have a choice. The question is when," a member of Pistorius's legal team, Brian...Published: 25 Mar 2014 at 14:58hrs | 1 | by Sapa
'Pistorius going to prison no matter what,' says legal expert
Prosecutors in Oscar Pistorius' case have apparently done enough to put the South African sprinter behind bars whether he knew he was shooting his girlfriend or not, an expert has said.Even if...Published: 24 Mar 2014 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pistorius cheated on ex with Steenkamp
Samantha Taylor, one of Oscar Pistorius's ex-girlfriends, told High Court in Pretoria that Pistorius had shouted at her, her friends and family on multiple occasions.Defence Advocate Barry Rou...Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 19:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Oscar Pistorius breaks down in tears
Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears after his defence team argued that the gunshots which killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp left her brain so "damaged" she couldn't have screamed.The athlete's...Published: 04 Mar 2014 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman escorted out of Oscar Pistorius court
Pretoria - Police and court orderlies escorted a woman known as Annemarie out of the North Gauteng High Court on Monday, after she apparently sought to bring an application to have murder-accused para...Published: 03 Mar 2014 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff Reporter
SA law may be on Oscar Pistorius' side says criminal law expert
A South African criminal law expert has said the country's law might be on Oscar Pistorius side. Pistorius will appear in court on Monday accused of the murder of his model girlfriend Reeva ...Published: 28 Feb 2014 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Oscar Pistorius trial judge under world-wide scrutiny
Cape Town - In 15 years on the bench, Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa has heard a few high profile cases, but they will all be eclipsed by the drama and world-wide scrutiny of the Oscar Pistorius murd...Published: 18 Feb 2014 at 12:24hrs | | by Sapa
Crimes of passion rock Zimbabwe
They bask in the glory of riches and fame, but it is love which often becomes their downfall.From hero to zero, most celebrities, rich business, and powerful politicians successfully ride the ...Published: 26 Aug 2013 at 09:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Oscar Pistorius back in court
The police's explosives teams carried out a precautionary sweep to check for explosives inside the Pretoria Magistrate's Court room where paralympian Oscar Pistorius would appear on Monday.It ...Published: 19 Aug 2013 at 07:28hrs | | by Sapa
Murder accused Pistorius likely to know his trial date
Johannesburg - Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius will likely know his trial date when he appears in court next Monday on murder charges for shooting dead his girlfriend, a family spokesperson said....Published: 14 Aug 2013 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Pistorius resume 'low-key track routine'
JOHANNESBURG - Murder accused South African paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius has decided to resume a "low-key track routine" according to a statement released Thursday night.His family's s...Published: 28 Jun 2013 at 05:58hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Murder accused Pistorius forgets four-digit cellphone pin
London - Murder accused Oscar Pistorius has "forgotten" the four-digit pin needed to unlock a cellphone he was using on the night his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, was shot dead in his house, The Mail...Published: 24 Jun 2013 at 04:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Brazilian amputee shutters Pistorius' world record
BERLIN - Brazilian Alan Oliveira has become the world's fastest amputee after breaking Oscar Pistorius' 100m T43 record.The 20-year-old ran the record time of 10,77 seconds at the IPC Athleti...Published: 17 Jun 2013 at 04:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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