Dina Rodrigues did not flinch on Monday as a Cape High Court judge on Monday pronounced her and her four co-accused guilty of the murder of baby Jordan-Leigh Norton. She stared straight ahead as Judge Basheer Waglay said that even though she only planned the June 2005 killing, she was as guilty as the men she hired to carry it out.
Tony Leon on Saturday delivered his last speech as leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), predicting that the party would one day bring about a new government in South Africa. In an emotionally charged session of the party’s federal congress in Midrand, he thanked supporters for the ”incredible journey” they had allowed him to take in heading the DA.
Things looked dark for baby murder accused Dina Rodrigues at the end of the first day of a marathon judgement in the Cape High Court on Thursday. Judge Basheer Waglay told a packed courtroom that he accepted expert evidence that her thumbprints and handwriting were found on a waybill left at the scene of the June 2005 killing of baby Jordan-Leigh Norton.
A Cape High Court judge has accepted evidence that two thumbprints from Dina Rodrigues were found on the back of a courier waybill discovered at the scene of the murder of six-month-old baby Jordan-Leigh Norton. Judge Basheer Waglay made the finding when the court resumed after lunch on Thursday.
Former LeisureNet bosses Peter Gardener and Rod Mitchell were on Monday jailed for an effective eight and seven years respectively. ”You let society down very very badly,” said acting Judge Dirk Uijs as he handed down the sentences in the Cape High Court.
The finances of the United Independent Front (UIF) came under scrutiny in an application heard in the Cape High Court on Monday. The application was brought by Neville Hendricks and Mzwandile Manjiya, who say they are the UIF’s deputy president and secretary general respectively.
A candidate for a post on the bench of the Cape High Court faced tough questioning at the Judicial Service Commission on Tuesday over her claim that judicial appointments were often steeped in racial and gender prejudice. Advocate Nona Goso was also quizzed over incidents in which she appeared to have signed off review cases without reading them.
Rising barely 160m above the arid Namaqualand coastline, the Boegoeberge hardly deserve to be called mountains. Yet their size belies both their ecological importance and the controversy that is swirling around them. Once islands off the coast of a prehistoric Africa, today they are lapped by another sea. This time it is a sea of sand, generated by the operations of state-owned diamond-mining company Alexkor.
President Thabo Mbeki should get a 57% pay hike, the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers has recommended. This would add R716 962 to the president’s package, bringing it to R1,89-million a year. Mbeki has in past years deliberately not taken the full amount of pay he is entitled to.
Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown was released from custody on Thursday after his R1-million bail was unexpectedly paid on his behalf. His advocate Klaus von Lieres handed the cheque to Scorpions prosecutors moments after a Cape Town magistrate ruled that property belonging to a third party was acceptable as surety for bail.