22 May 2009
1630/2009 ;
366/2009 ;
3656/2009 [2009] ZAKZPHC 20
Griffin v Edwafin Investment Holdings Ltd ; Chaplin v Griffin
and Another ; Stapleton and Others v Edwafin Investment
Holdings Ltd and Others
End of the road for Edwafin - 22
May
Troubled unlisted investment firm Edwafin was reportedly placed in
liquidation on Friday, after a failed bid by management place it
under judicial management. Fin24.com is in possession of a copy of
a letter from law firm GDLK Attorneys which confirms to debenture
holders that a provisional order of liquidation has been granted.
- Fin24
website
Cops to probe failed firm - 26
May
The police are probing possible charges against the directors of
collapsed Hillcrest-based Edwafin Holdings (Pty) Ltd, which was
placed under provisional liquidation on Friday, leaving some of
its investors virtually penniless. It is estimated that between 1
400 and 2 000 South Africans - lured by the promise of between 15
percent and 20 percent monthly interest - collectively ploughed
R200-million into debentures in the investment company. If they
are lucky, they will now get back six cents for each rand they put
in. - IOL
website
Edwafin : Money Skills, Krion revisited?
- 28 May
Investors in failed debenture scheme Edwafin need to be cautious
that they do not suffer the same fate as those who put their money
into Money Skills and Krion. Many Krion and Money Skills investors
got a nasty shock after these two schemes were liquidated. The
liquidators issued summons against investors to recover money that
the schemes had previously paid out to them. -
Moneyweb website
13 May 2009
2142/2008 [2009] ZAKZPHC 19
Lafarge Industries South Africa (Pty) Ltd v Howick Retirement
Villages (Pty) Ltd
13 May 2009
14275/08 [2009] ZAKZPHC 18
Zululand Gas and Outdoor CC v Morris Centre (Pty) Ltd and
Another
29 April
2009
R421/09 [2009] ZAKZPHC 17
S v Zerky
Property taxes - 6 May
Kwanalu sues ministers and municipalities over unrealistic
property rates. The KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union's
(Kwanalu) legal challenge against government and municipalities
for their implementation of the Municipal Property Rates
Act (MPRA) is now in full swing. Kwanalu has lodged
arguments with the High Court in Pietermaritzburg and papers have
been served on the national minister of local and provincial
government Sicelo Shiceka and 28 other respondents, amongst them
the finance minister, the provincial and national agriculture
ministers, the provincial MEC for local government and traditional
affairs and 21 municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal that have begun
implementing the MPRA. Kwanalu's case is
supported by affidavits from Agri SA. -
Farming UK
website
Couple implicated in wife's murder - 12 May
A businessman and his new wife on Monday pleaded not guilty in the
Pietermaritzburg High Court to the murder of his former wife three
years ago. Sanesh Manilall, Mumtaz Osman and Mboniseni Mbatha have
all denied involvement in Monika Manilall's murder at her Howick
West home on February 3, 2006. However, Mbatha's not guilty plea
implicated the couple in the murder. -
IOL
website
Dying Manilall was shot again - 14 May
An alleged accomplice to the murder of Howick woman Monika
Manilall on February 3, 2006 testified yesterday that after
Manilall was shot and lay bleeding on the floor of the passage
next to her baby, she suddenly jumped up and ran to a bedroom
where she activated a panic alarm. Moments later, her executioner
fired a second shot through the back of her head. Phumlani Madlala
also alleges that after Monika Manilall was killed, the assailants
were supposed to murder Osman’s husband. -
The Witness
website
'He
drove his wife to her killers' - 15 May
Murder accused Sunesh Manilall drove his wife to the Spar
supermarket in Howick a day before she was killed so that her
murderers could see what she looked like. This was said in
evidence in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday. - IOL
website
Twist
in Manilall case - 19 May
In a surprise twist yesterday, a man who is currently serving a
life sentence after he pleaded guilty last year to shooting dead
Howick mother Monika Manilall in 2006, told Pietermaritzburg High
Court Judge Herbert Msimang that he, in fact, "knows
nothing" about the crime at all. He alleged that following
his arrest on the murder charge police told him he would
"spend a long time in prison", but that if he admitted
his guilt it would be "of help" to him. However, he said
after he was sentenced to life imprisonment they failed to keep
their "promise" to assist to him. Mdlalose claimed that,
for the past two weeks, police "read" the statement to
him. He also told the judge that the state advocate, Dalene
Barnard, was present when he was "induced" to testify by
police and that he had told her that he knew nothing about the
case. The court adjourned until today to enable Barnard and the
defence advocates to decide what should happen in the light of
Mdlalose’s startling claims. - Witness
website
Pensioner asks court to set aside house transfer - 13 May
Stephen Mkhize, a pensioner whose Greytown house was auctioned for
R8 000 and then sold for R350 000, has applied to the KZN High
Court (Pietermaritzburg) to have the initial transfer set aside.
The Mercury reports that Mkhize brought the application
against the Umvoti Municipality ; Nalini
Khan, who had been employed at the municipality as a credit
controller ; her brother, Navin Chetty
; the current owners of the house, Vusi and Daphney Dlamini
; Nel and Stevens Attorneys ; the
Sheriff of the Umvoti Magistrate's Court
; and the Registrar of Deeds. -
Legalbrief
website
Do not resort to murder : judge - 20 May
A Pietermaritzburg woman who pleaded guilty to hiring a hitman to
kill her husband was sentenced in the Pietermaritzburg High Court
on Tuesday to life imprisonment. Sibongile Mavis Khumalo, 44, will
now spend the next 25 years in prison before she can be considered
for parole. Judge Rose Mogwera gave Khumalo the opportunity to
address the court in mitigation of sentence, after Khumalo said in
her plea that she had been driven to her actions after being
subjected to years of emotional and financial neglect by her
husband. - IOL website
Keyphrase :
Domestic abuse
Man sentenced to life for contract killing
- 29 May
Poverty was not a reason for reducing the life sentence of a
29-year-old man who committed a contract murder, a
Pietermaritzburg High Court judge said on Friday. Judge Vivienne
Niles-Duner sentenced Lindelani Mkhulisi to life imprisonment for
the contract killing of Sikukayi Mbanjwa. Niles-Duner said
although Mkhulisi was very poor, could not support his family, was
in debt and was so remorseful that he pleaded guilty, these were
not substantial and compelling circumstances. -
IOL
website
Court
clerks face fraud – 2 June
Two Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court clerks accused of
defrauding the justice department of over R380 000 were on
Tuesday interdicted from selling their assets. Pietermaritzburg
High Court Judge King Ndhlovu issued this restraint order against
Thamsanqa Nkosi (39) and Thulisile Aurelia Dube (34) preventing
any dealings with their fixed properties. The two women, who were
accused of defrauding the justice department of R255 900 and
R128 980 respectively, were also restrained from tampering
with balances in their government employees' pension fund. – iafrica
website
Judge
: 'tired' of late arrivals - 15 May
Judge Herbert Msimang yesterday said he is tired of prisoners
arriving late for trial at the high court in Pietermaritzburg and
said he intends taking up the matter with the minister of
Correctional Services. - Witness
website