Three judges have denied an application for leave to appeal by Gert van Schalkwyk and Reinach Tiedt, who were sentenced in 2005 for murdering a man.
Correctional services have suspended the Zonderwater Prison parole board with immediate effect over its release of two of the Waterkloof Four.
Correctional Services say three parole board officers and two prison official are being investigated for the release of two of the Waterkloof Four.
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/ 27 December 2011
The department of correctional services has until January 6 to lodge an appeal against house arrest rulings handed to two of the Waterkloof Four.
Correctional services will apply for a review of the court order that allowed the changing of the sentences of two of the Waterkloof Four.
The North Gauteng High Court has ordered the correctional services department to release two of the Waterkloof Four into house arrest.
The department of correctional services has denied that two of the ‘Waterkloof Four’ will be released on parole as claimed by the family.
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/ 4 September 2008
Throughout their trial they posed outside the Pretoria High Court decked out in the latest designer gear, flagrantly provocative and exhibitionistic.
The so-called Waterkloof Four turn to the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday to ask it to overturn the effective 12-year prison sentence they were given for beating a homeless man to death and assaulting another man. The four will ask the high court to set aside both the guilty verdict of the lower court and the sentence.
The Mpumalanga Rugby Union will be hauled before Parliament’s portfolio committee on sports and recreation to explain why convicted murderer Gert van Schalkwyk was included in its team. Butana Komphela, chairperson of the committee, said on Tuesday that it was immoral of the Pumas rugby team to field a convicted killer.