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Magistrates Courts
Carletonville
Rape
ruling causes outrage - 6 July
A convicted rapist was given a four-year jail sentence because he
was a "well-educated man" and the complainant a
"grown-up woman" - but the National Assembly's justice
committee is incensed by this ruling. It wants to investigate why
Moagi Molefe, who is also facing charges of sexually assaulting 13
other women while out on bail pending an appeal, got this sentence
instead of the prescribed life sentence. - IOL
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Mhala
'Assassin
was promised R20 000' - 2 July
A bishop who allegedly hired an assassin to kill a rival bishop
appeared in the Mhala Magistrate's Court in Limpopo on Thursday,
police said. Jaftha Mabuza, 46, was arrested on Thursday morning
after an assassin he allegedly hired to kill Bishop Daniel Mashele,
reported him to the police, said Captain Leonard Hlathi. He had
allegedly been jealous of Mashele who broke off from Mabuza's church
to start his own because of bad blood between the two. - IOL
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Muizenberg
First
meeting with dad ends in alleged rape - 6 July
A Muizenberg, Cape Town, man is facing incest charges after
allegedly repeatedly raping his 18-year-old daughter, after she
arrived from Germany to meet him for the first time. - IOL
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Cape
man arrested for alleged incest - 5 July
A 53-year-old Muizenberg man will appear in the local magistrate's
court in August for allegedly committing incest with his teenage
daughter, according to Sunday's Rapport newspaper. His court
appearance on August 7 would be his third. He had not been
asked to plead yet and was out on R1 000 bail. He was required
to report to the Muizenberg police station daily. - IOL
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Letter
saves SA teen sex prisoner - 7 July
A German teenager was eventually rescued after her father took her
to stay with friends. While there, she wrote a letter to the
friends, a couple, telling them of her ordeal. They took her in and
reported him to the police. The father is now facing charges of
incest and rape. He was given bail and will appear in court on
August 7. The girl is in protective custody and is expected to
testify against him. It is understood he left the family before
she was born and had no contact with them until she began
researching his whereabouts on a family tree website. - IOL
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Pietermaritzburg
Top
arrest in textbook scam - 2 July
The former chief financial officer for the treasury and Education
Department in KwaZulu-Natal, Pamela Bosman-Zulu, yesterday joined
Indiza Infrastructure Solutions boss Jabulani Mabaso in the dock in
the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court in connection with charges
of corruption, fraud and money laundering. The chief investigator in
the case, Alan Nixon, did not oppose the bail application for
Bosman-Zulu and said he is satisfied that she is not a flight risk.
Bosman-Zulu is the ex-wife of Pietermaritzburg's former municipal
manager, Thabane Zulu. Magistrate Divesh Mootheram granted her bail
of R30 000 on various conditions, including that she surrender her
passport. Mabaso and Bosman-Zulu are due to appear in court again on
July 15. - Witness
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See
also :
Man
on R200m fraud charges stripped of assets - 11 June
IOL
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[InfoUpdate
12 of 2009]
Woman
fined for illegal DVDs - 4 July
A Congolese woman was fined an effective R40 000 on Friday for being
in possession of 1 400 illegal DVDs and computer equipment used for
making DVD copies. Pendo Assumani admitted in the city's
Magistrate's Court that she had copied the illegal DVDs, knowing
that their copyright existed. She said she made the copies to sell,
knowing it was illegal. Computer equipment found in her possession
contained a plate of various DVDs with which she intended to make
copies for sale. Her attorney, John Wills, said she was a first
offender and asked that she be allowed to pay the fine at R1 000 per
month. Magistrate Celumusa Ndwandwe agreed and imposed a fine of R60
000. An amount of R20 000 was conditionally suspended. - News24
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Pretoria
Lovers
in jail after wasting police time - 4 July
A Pretoria woman's secret affair has been exposed - but not before
police mounted a considerable effort to locate her - while she was
ensconced in her lover's flat. This after almost the entire policing
staff at the Villieria police station tracked her down to the East
Rand on Thursday night where she was found with her
"skelmpie". As a result, both she and the man have
been arrested for defeating the ends of justice. - IOL
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Wynberg
Court
postpones 'Razor' trial - 9 July
The trial of the vicious Razor Gang was delayed on Wednesday because
a defence lawyer arrived in court at midday - and might be reported
to the Law Society of South Africa by the gang's victims. When
lawyer Boitumelo Lesomo stepped into court, he claimed he had
informed the prosecution that he was busy with a civil matter in
Krugersdorp and would be late. The Razor gang is allegedly made up
of five men who are facing two separate trials at the Wynberg
Magistrate's Court. - IOL
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Razor
Gang trial put on hold - 10 July
A rape survivor stood in the dock, ready to testify, when a late
request for interpretation in an additional language halted the
entire trial of the Razor Gang. After proceedings had been conducted
in isiZulu for more than half the day, it emerged in the Wynberg
Magistrate's Court on Thursday that one of the four accused,
Fernando Hakamu, was Mozambican and that a Shangaan interpreter was
required. - IOL
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