The criminal justice system must revolve around the victims of crime, said National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli said on Wednesday. ”We want to change our criminal justice system. ”We want to ensure justice for the victims of crime by prosecuting without fear, favour or prejudice and by working with our partners and the public to solve and prevent crime,” Pikoli said.
A shortage of tickets rather than high prices will hamper Sooth Africans who want to see any of the 2010 Soccer World Cup matches, chief executive of the local organising committee Danny Jordaan said on Tuesday. ”There will be more than three million tickets in total, but … we would be lucky if we have one million of those available for South Africans,” Jordaan said.
The 2010 Soccer World Cup has become the benchmark against which everything in South Africa is measured, and this has forced the local organising committee to answer some difficult questions, its chief executive, Danny Jordaan, said on Tuesday. The reason is that 2010 is not just about 90 minutes of football, but is part of the transformation of the country, Jordaan said.
South African intelligence agencies are concerned that people involved in international terrorism are spending time in the country, an intelligence official said on Tuesday. Barry Gilder, coordinator of the National Intelligence Coordinating Committee, said that agents are watching certain individuals and organisations who might be involved in international terrorism.
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/ 23 February 2007
The eight men accused of involvement in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea were found not guilty in the Pretoria Regional Court on Friday. The magistrate said that while the men’s actions were unlawful, he could not find by ”any stretch of the imagination” that they had knowingly contravened the Regulation on Foreign Military Assistance Act.
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/ 22 February 2007
The state has not reached the ”required threshold” to prove its case against eight men accused of contravening sections of the Regulation on Foreign Military Assistance Act, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Thursday. Defence advocate Margie Victor, appearing for six of the eight accused, asked the court to discharge her clients.
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/ 20 February 2007
The former national director of public prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, might be called to testify in the court case of eight men charged with contravening sections of the Regulation of Military Assistance Act relating to an alleged attempted coup in the Equatorial Guinea. State advocate Torie Pretorius told the Pretoria Regional Court on Tuesday that he might call Ngcuka.
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/ 20 February 2007
One of the men who allegedly plotted to topple the government of Equatorial Guinea feels he has done nothing wrong, despite pleading guilty, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Tuesday. Harry Carlse, who turned state witness, was testifying against eight alleged co-conspirators accused of contravening the Regulations on Foreign Military Assistance Act.
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/ 14 February 2007
Details of how the alleged coup in Equatorial Guinea was to be staged were revealed for the first time in the Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday. Equatorial Guinea’s President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, was to be lured to the airport with the promise of new 4X4 vehicles.
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/ 8 February 2007
A defence lawyer for two of the eight men allegedly involved in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea hinted on Thursday that the South African government might have given its permission for the attempt. Defence lawyer Alwyn Griebenow was cross-examining state witness Johannes Smit in the Pretoria Regional Court.