3 July 2009
25494/2008
[2009] ZAGPPHC 96
Du Plessis en Andere v BTA Konstruksie en Andere
3 July 2009
36025/09
[2009] ZAGPPHC 95
Voster v
Voster and Others
3 July 2009
57639/2007
[2009] ZAGPPHC 94
Inyanga
Trading 444 (Pty) Ltd v R&T Ontwikkelaars (Pty) Ltd
26 June 2009
33656/2009
[2009] ZAGPPHC 93
South African
Hunters and Game Conservation Association v Minister of Safety and
Security
Going
off half-cock : a better model for gun management
- 6 July
Last week the Pretoria High Court issued a ruling effectively suspending
several provisions of the
Firearms Control Act of 2000.
The greatest problem facing the Act is that it does not appear to work as
the crime prevention mechanism it was originally billed as. No side of the
South African gun debate disputes that firearms in the wrong hands are a
serious threat.
The police have never kept data that allows for the accurate tracking of
what kinds (semi-automatic handgun, revolver, bolt-action rifle,
double-barrel shotgun, etc) and status (licensed, stolen,
ex-police/military, liberation movement) of firearms are used in crimes in
South Africa. Nor has any data been maintained on the use of firearms in
self defence.
Therefore only macro-crime trends can be assessed.
South Africa's murder rate came down from 66 per 100 000 in 1994 to 40 per
100 000 people when the Act was implemented in 2004/05. - Dispatch
Online website
Death
row prisoner denied freedom
- 4 July
A week after three inmates were told they were eligible for parole, five
former death row inmates now serving life sentences had their applications
turned down in Pretoria's Palace of Justice. Yesterday Judge Eberhard
Bertelsmann cited the full bench judgment in an application by the killer
of Communist Party leader Chris Hani, Clive Derby-Lewis, when he dismissed
the applications by Paul van Vuren, Carel Meiring, Pieter van der Merwe,
Rudolph Strydom and G J R Botha. The five questioned the
constitutionality of section 136 of the Correctional
Services Act. - IOL
website
See also
:
North Gauteng High Court
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
See also : South
Africa. Freedom
Under Law applies to join Pikoli case