The wheels were in motion late on Thursday afternoon for the homecoming of 64 suspected South African mercenaries jailed in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean authorities were processing deportation papers for the men, after which they would be handed over to immigration officials, a Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said.
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/ 24 February 2005
The right of the public to information on covert crimes in the apartheid years might justify a proper adjudication of quashed charges against Wouter Basson, a Constitutional Court judge said on Thursday. The South African and Namibian public, especially relatives of people who disappeared, have the right to obtain clarity, Judge Albie Sachs stated.
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/ 23 February 2005
The state’s claims that the trial judge who acquitted apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson was biased were examined in the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. Alfred Cockrell argued on behalf of the state that any reasonable person would conclude trial Judge Willie Hartzenberg had been unconsciously biased.
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/ 22 February 2005
The state asked the Constitutional Court on Tuesday for a second chance at prosecuting apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson on six charges of conspiracy to murder. The alleged victims were ”enemies” of the then South African government, in London, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland.
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/ 21 February 2005
A constitutional duty rests on the state to prosecute alleged human rights abusers such as apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson, the Constitutional Court heard on Monday. The state is applying for leave to appeal against certain legal issues arising from Basson’s acquittal.
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/ 21 February 2005
Constitutional Court judges grilled the state on Monday for raising issues in an application for leave to appeal against certain legal issues arising from the acquittal of apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson, that were not detailed in the initial indictment against him.
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/ 21 February 2005
The Pretoria High Court had erred in quashing charges against apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson of conspiring to murder ”enemies” of the then government beyond South Africa’s borders, the Constitutional Court heard in Johannesburg on Monday.
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/ 16 February 2005
Beeld newspaper editor Peet Kruger and freelance columnist Jeanne Goosen were ordered on Wednesday to appear before a Pretoria judge to explain why a column on the ”advocate Barbie” sex-crime trial contained wrong information. Judge Essop Patel ruled that the column appeared at first glance to be in contempt of court.
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/ 15 February 2005
Pretoria advocate pair Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo, accused of an array of sex crimes, appear to have had e-mail correspondence with websites dealing in child sex and bestiality, the Pretoria High Court heard on Tuesday. Two apparent child-pornography pictures were also found on their computer’s hard drive.
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/ 14 February 2005
Former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka denied on Monday having promised politician and convicted fraudster Tony Yengeni a maximum R5Â 000 fine in exchange for a guilty plea. ”This is a distorted version of the truth,” Ngcuka, now a businessman, said through spokesperson Sipho Ngwema.