Jail
for red robot jumper - 27 October
Sizwe Shezi is paying a high price for jumping a red robot - 18
months in jail. And in spite of the best efforts of his lawyers,
two judges - who had confirmed the sentence - refused him
permission to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA).
"The way people disregard the law . . . it has become
endemic. Perhaps it's high time for someone to go to jail (for
this offence)", Judge Herbert Msimang said during argument
in the Durban High Court. Last month, Judges Msimang and Kate
Pillay rejected Shezi's appeal and he began serving his sentence
in the Mtunzini prison. - IOL
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Driver's
family suffers as he sits in jail - 28 October
The family of the driver jailed for jumping a red traffic light
are struggling to make ends meet. "I don't know how I'll
cope. He broke the law, but I don't think the sentence was fair
because he could have paid a fine. There was a reason for what
he did", said his partner. "He didn't tell me anything
at the time. On our way to the doctor, traffic officers stopped
him. I wasn't concentrating on what was happening because I was
so sick, but I overheard the officers asking for money from
Sizwe. He's a stubborn man. He told them he didn't have money
and left them there," said Zulu. - IOL
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Lotter
trial : siblings in R1m row - 29 October
Nicolette and Hardus Lotter, who are accused of murdering their
parents, have to this day never told their only sibling,
Christelle, exactly what happened on the day of the murders. Nor
have they ever claimed to her that they are "languishing in
jail as innocents". These are the submissions of Advocate
Kemp J Kemp, who has been retained by Christelle to fight her
brother and sister's claim of about R1-million in maintenance
from the estate of their slain parents. They want the money to
fund experts and lawyers to defend them in their criminal trial.
The application - and a counter application by Christelle to
stop them inheriting, even if they are acquitted of the crimes -
will be argued before Judge Vivienne Niles-Duner in the Durban
High Court this morning. - IOL
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