19
June 2009
20762/2006
[2009] ZAGPPHC 90
Bonfiglio v ATB Chartered Accountants (SA)
18
June 2009
A740/2008
[2009] ZAGPPHC 89
McCain
Frozen Foods (Pty) Limited v Creighton
18
June 2009
18352/07
[2009] ZAGPPHC 88
Liebenberg v Minister of Safety and Security and Another
17
June 2009
32201/05
[2009] ZAGPPHC 93 ; 32786/05 [2009] ZAGPPHC 87
Vosloo v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and Another ;
Kenny v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and Others
10
June 2009
10125/2008
[2009] ZAGPPHC 86
Zelenyuk
v Avnit
9
June 2009
A534/08
[2009] ZAGPPHC 84
Mokalaka
v S
2
June 2009
594/09
[2009] ZAGPPHC 81
Wessels
v Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development and Others
1
June 2009
20738/06
[2009] ZAGPPHC 85
Deli
Chicken (Pty) Ltd v Van Den Heever NNO
29
May 2009
58485/2008
[2009] ZAGPPHC 82
J V V
v J V V
29
May 2009
A440/2007
[2009] ZAGPPHC 79
Smit v
Willers
29
May 2009
30762/2006
[2009] ZAGPPHC 78
Takalani
v Booyens Du Preez & Boshoff Inc
29
May 2009
31134/2008
[2009] ZAGPPHC 77
J V R
v J V R
28
May 2009
21736/06
[2009] ZAGPPHC 80
Cronje v Lid van die Uitvoerende Raad Vervoer Paaie en
Instandhouding Gauteng Regering
Return
my PC : prisoner - 29 May
A convicted murderer serving a life sentence at C-Max in Pretoria
has gone to court to compel prison authorities to return his
computer so he can continue his studies. Maxwell Nguyuza took the
Department of Correctional Services to the Gauteng North high
court in Pretoria on April 14 2009. The court ruled in his favour
but the department is appealing. Manelisi Wolela of correctional
services yesterday said the computer
had been confiscated and that prison head Sydney Magaga should not
have returned it.
- Sowetan
website
Court
wrangle over property rates double bill
- 23 June
A Wierda Park resident turned to the Pretoria High Court after the
Tshwane Metro Council apparently seized R200 he had paid for
electricity towards his outstanding double billed property rates
account. Hermanus Jacobs said in papers before the Pretoria High
Court that on June 11 he went to his local supermarket to buy a
voucher for his prepaid electricity meter. He handed R200 to the
cashier to pay. She returned without the voucher and told him
the council had refused to sell him electricity. "I asked her
to return my R200. She said she could not as the council had
automatically used my money on my so-called arrears". - IOL
website
ICASA
councillor struck Vodacom deal - 23 June
Sources allege a deal was struck between the Congress of South
African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the SA Communist Party (SACP)
and a senior ICASA councillor to persuade the telecommunications
authority to prevent Vodacom's listing. The sources are a person
close to ICASA's council, and a senior government official. In
terms of the deal, the councillor, whose name is known to ITWeb,
was to persuade the rest of the ICASA council to support Cosatu's
court application, announced on 16 May, to prevent Vodacom's R22
billion JSE listing. In exchange, Cosatu would get the ruling
African National Congress (ANC) parliamentary caucus to support
the reappointment of the councillor. - Moneyweb
website
DA
probing Icasa bid to block Vodacom's JSE listing - 23
June
Investigations into why Vodacom's R80bn listing was almost
scuppered by the industry regulator are continuing, with
Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Dene Smuts asking questions in
Parliament about alleged corruption and interference. Smuts has
asked Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande - as
secretary-general of the South African Communist Party (SACP) -
whether he personally influenced the attempt to block Vodacom's
listing. - Business
Day website
See also
:
17 May 2009
26557/09
[2009] ZAGPPHC 76
COSATU v Telkom SA Ltd and Others
The judgment giving permission to Vodacom to list on the JSE
[InfoUpdate 11 of 2009]
Gun
law challenged in court - 24 June
The SA Hunters and Game Conservation Association has asked the
High Court in Pretoria to extend the deadline for the renewal of
gun licences, reports said today. SABC radio news reported
that the association launched an urgent bid requesting an
extension of the implementation of the new Firearms
Control Act which comes into effect on July 1, 2009. Lawyer
Bertus Bergenthuin told the court the government was unable to
deal with the administrative load brought upon by the new
legislation. He said the State only managed to deal with half of
the 700 000 applications for competency certificates to own a
firearm in the past five years, Beeld newspaper reported. He
argued that the applicants' right to administrative fairness was
being infringed upon by unfair and illogical regulations. - The
Times website
State
warns against altering gun law - 24 June
It would be an "exceptionally dangerous thing" to upset
new firearms legislation at this late stage, the High Court in
Pretoria heard today. Counsel for the minister of police, Pat
Ellis SC, argued that the SA Hunters and Game Conservation
Association was in effect asking the court to amend an Act of
Parliament, pending the finalisation of their application to have
certain sections of the Firearms Control Act
declared unconstitutional. The Association applied for an urgent
interim interdict, declaring that all licences of firearms
obtained under 1969 firearms legislation remain valid until the
outcome of their constitutional application. - The
Times website
Gun
owners get reprieve - 26 June
More than one million South African firearm owners who have not
yet re-applied for their licences were given temporary reprieve by
the High Court in Pretoria on Friday. Judge Bill Prinsloo granted
an interim interdict to the SA Hunters and Game Conservation
Association, declaring that firearm licences obtained under the
old Arms and Ammunition Act will be
deemed valid for the time being. The interim order will remain in
effect pending the final outcome of the association's application
to have certain sections of the new Firearms Control Act declared
unconstitutional. - IOL
website
Gun
dealer granted urgent interdict - 25 June
A Randburg firearms dealer has obtained an urgent interdict to
force Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa to come up with a plan on how
he should deal with firearms entrusted to him by members of the
public. Leon le Roux of Randburg Firearms was also granted a stay
of any immediate police action against him. He turned to the High
Court in Pretoria for help, saying he feared he might be arrested
at any moment for contravening the new Firearms
Control Act, despite his continued pleas to the police for
assistance. - IOL
website
'Advocate Barbie' Case
Barbie
fugitive nabbed - 14 June
Dirk Prinsloo, one of South Africa's most wanted criminals, has
been arrested in Belarus in Eastern Europe following an attempted
bank robbery. Prinsloo jumped bail more than three years ago while
standing trial with his ex-fiancee Cezanne Visser, also known as
Advocate Barbie, after the Pretoria High Court had granted him
permission to travel to Russia. This prompted a worldwide search
for the man accused of a series of sex crimes in South Africa and
who became one of the world's 130 most wanted criminals. In court,
Visser has denied guilt on 14 charges ranging from rape and
soliciting minors to commit indecent acts to manufacturing child
pornography. Her trial is set to resume tomorrow after it was
postponed in March. - IOL
website
Barbie's
boyfriend is in jail - 15 June
South African police and prosecutors are determined that the
country's most high-profile international fugitive, alleged child
porn manufacturer and paedophile Dirk Prinsloo, will never again
escape their clutches. Prinsloo was arrested in Belarus on Friday
after allegedly trying to rob a bank.
The former lover of Cezanne Visser, known as "Advocate Barbie",
with whom he was on bail and on trial for sex crimes before
fleeing to Russia in 2006, was arrested in the eastern European
country and will stand trial there. If convicted, he will serve
jail time in Belarus before being extradited to South Africa. - The
Times website
14 June
2009
Department
of Justice seeks Prinsloo's extradition
SA
Government Information website
Prinsloo's
desperate life on the run - 21 June
Alleged paedophile and bank robber Dirk Prinsloo led an itinerant
life in the three years he was on the run from Interpol. Prinsloo,
who skipped bail in 2005 during a court-approved business trip to
Russia while on trial for alleged sex crimes in Pretoria,
apparently regularly travelled between the Russian capital,
Moscow, Belarus, Latvia, New Zealand and Australia. - IOL
website
Judge
calls time on Advocate Barbie's trial - 19 June
The sex trial of Cezanne Visser, better known as Advocate Barbie,
is drawing to a close, with the parties expected to deliver their
final arguments by August and judgment expected by October 6. - IOL
website
Presidential Pardons
Motlanthe
pardon nearly freed racist killers - 9 June
Four Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members who went on an "unashamedly
racist" rampage against black people at Kuruman in the
Northern Cape in 1995 would have been freed from prison after
serving only two years – if former president Kgalema Motlanthe
had got his way.
The names of Ryan Allbut, Alexander George Whitehead, Arend
Christian de Waal and Hans Jacob Wessels appear on a list of 120
people that Motlanthe tried to pardon last month, before he was
prevented by a coalition of victims’ families and six civil
society organisations. - Sowetan
website
Vlok
in line for pardon? - 7 June
Former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok is among 121 people
recommended for a presidential pardon, according to a civil
society coalition that had legally challenged the granting of
special pardons without the consultation of victims. Vlok's name
appears on a list of prisoners and convicted persons compiled by
the pardons reference group set up by Thabo Mbeki to consider
the applications and make recommendations to the presidency. The
reference group considered more than 2 300 applications. The
apartheid-era police minister received a suspended sentence in
2007 for his role in the plot to kill Reverend Frank Chikane,
director-general in the presidency. - IOL
website
No
Motlanthe pardons for AWB - 10 June
The presidency on Wednesday denied that former president Kgalema
Motlanthe nearly freed four members of the Afrikaner
Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) with presidential pardons. Responding
to the claims, presidential spokesperson Thabo Masebe said on
Wednesday that it was "imperative" that the procedure
of presidential pardons be set out. - Mail
& Guardian website
See
also :
29 April 2009
15320/09
[2009] ZAGPPHC 35
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and Others v
President of the Republic of South Africa and Others