Nel’s attempt to bring into question Khumalo’s innocence for the non-crime of soliciting a lawyer not only affects her rights but those of every South African
The trial of four men starts on 11 April in the Pretoria high court
The politician’s former lover is suing him and the police for her ‘unlawful’ arrest, which suggests a pattern of abuse of state resources by powerful men
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The National assembly speaker’s case over her abandoned farm will be heard at the end of October
In 2015, a protracted legal action was initiated after it emerged that animals had been starving on the multimillion-rand farm of Modise in 2014.
NPA head Shaun Abrahams decided to prosecute the former president’s son for culpable homicide in April
Shaun Abrahams called AfriForum’s decision to prosecute Malema ‘unbecoming’
CEO of AfriForum, Kallie Kriel, said Malema should have his day in court
The younger Zuma had been given until the end of March to say why he should not be prosecuted
EFF leader Julius Malema has told AfriForum to "bring it on", after it announced that it would pursue charges against him should the NPA not do it
The Afrikaner interest group has announced it will privately prosecute the EFF leader for his alleged involvement in a suspected botched tender award
Gerrie Nel, Trevor Manuel, Vusi Pikoli will be state witnesses in the SARS ‘rogue unit’ case
President Jacob Zuma son Duduzane Zuma will be the first person to be hauled before AfriForum’s private prosecuting unit, the union announced.
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Former NPA prosecutor Gerrie Nel and AfriForum’s chief decide the country needs a dog to watch the watchmen
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AfriForum is a grouping that holds the rights of white Afrikaans speakers as more valid than those of the rest of the people of this country.
The state advocate said he will join lobby group AfriForum to pursue prosecutions on their behalf – and he may dust off some of his old files.
Nel’s immediate resignation after 35 years of service, five years away from retirement, will send shockwaves through the beleaguered organisation.
An application to appeal the six-year sentence will be filed on Friday.
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Advocate Gerrie Nel, who is representing the Steenkamp’s, said that the application for leave of appeal was not a reflection on Masipa.
The national prosecuting authority’s appeal of Oscar Pistorius’s “shockingly too lenient” sentence has been welcomed by the Steenkamp family.
But the witness for Reeva Steenkamp’s killer says Pistorius may have welcomed Nel’s treatment.
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Convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius will finally hear his sentence for shooting Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013 when he appears in court on July 6.
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Both the State and legal teams for Oscar Pistorius made submissions on whether or not the paralympian was rightfully acquitted of murder.
Oscar Pistorius’s lawyers have applied for leave to appeal Judge Masipa’s decision to allow the state to appeal his conviction.
NPA spokesperson Nathi Mncube says the authority is now in the hands of the Supreme Court of Appeal to set a date for the Oscar Pistorius appeal.
However, Judge Masipa dismissed the sentencing appeal of Oscar Pistorius, saying she did not believe the sentence was "shockingly inappropriate".
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who is appealing the judgment in the Oscar Pistorius case, says the sentence was "shockingly inappropriate".
After seven months of evidence in a case that’s captured the world’s attention, sentencing proceedings have ended in the Oscar Pistorius trial.
Acting national commissioner for correctional services, Zach Modise, was called as the second witness for the state in the aggravation of sentencing.
A social worker testifying in Oscar Pistorius’s sentencing proceedings says prison conditions are horrific, according to her own research.
While the first day of week 10 of Reeva Steenkamp’s murder trial seemed to go the prosecution’s way at first, the defence found good footholds.
Oscar Pistorius was not unable to control himself or understand the consequences of actions the night he killed Reeva Steenkamp, a court has heard.