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/ 14 February 2005
Politician and convicted fraudster Tony Yengeni has accused former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka of reneging on a deal guaranteeing him a maximum R5Â 000 fine in exchange for a guilty plea. Yengeni, who faces a four-year prison term, claims the agreement was struck at a meeting between himself, Ngcuka and then justice minister Penuell Maduna.
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/ 10 February 2005
A police officer probing alleged sex crimes against Pretoria advocate pair Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo was accused on Thursday of having a grudge against Prinsloo after he laid a complaint against her. Piet Coetzee, for Prinsloo, told the court his client had laid a complaint against Superintendent Daleen du Plessis long before his arrest.
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/ 8 February 2005
Pretoria advocate Cezanne Visser kept her eyes downcast as a police video was shown in the city’s high court on Tuesday of pornographic magazines on display in the bedroom she shared with her lover, colleague and sex-crimes co-accused Dirk Prinsloo. Visser appeared to be making notes through most of that part of the video.
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/ 1 February 2005
The reason the sex-crimes trial of Pretoria advocates Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo is in the high court rather than the regional court is for sensation, the defence argued on Tuesday. ”The sole purpose for the trial being heard in the high court is for sensation’s sake and to make an example of the accused,” Piet Coetzee argued for Prinsloo.
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/ 26 January 2005
Pictures of naked children, footage of bestiality and the so-called date-rape drug Rohypnol were among items found at the home of an advocate pair facing an array of sexual assault charges, the Pretoria High Court heard on Wednesday. Captain Carel Cornelius, the original investigating officer in the case of Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo, was testifying.
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/ 25 January 2005
Pretoria advocates Cezanne Visser and Dirk Prinsloo pleaded not guilty in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday to an array of criminal charges involving alleged sexual violations of women and girls. The pair, who was arrested more than two years ago, gave detailed denials of all the allegations against them.
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/ 24 January 2005
By pursuing an application for leave to appeal against their fraud convictions, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and broker Addy Moolman risk another court imposing heavier sentences, the state warned on Monday. ”There is no prospect of the sentences changing to their benefit,” advocate Jan Ferreira argued for the state in the Pretoria High Court.
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/ 25 December 2004
Amid allegations of examination fraud, Mpumalanga’s matric results are to be withheld when those of the rest of the country are announced next Wednesday, examination controlling body Umalusi said on Friday. Mpumalanga matric candidates may only know their results by the second week of next year.
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/ 16 December 2004
President Thabo Mbeki gave South Africa’s reconciliation process a glowing report card on Thursday, saying black and white citizens are standing up for freedom together. ”We have begun to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood and sisterhood,” he said at Reconciliation Day celebrations in Pretoria.
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/ 15 December 2004
The number of road deaths so far this December appears about the same as last year, the Department of Transport said in Pretoria on Wednesday. ”This is incredibly disappointing for us,” said the department’s chief director of land transportation regulation, Wendy Watson.