28
August 2009
2009/22928
[2009] ZAGPJHC 45
Verimark Holdings Limited v Brait Specialised Trustees
(Pty) Limited NO and Others
21
August 2009
25846/09
[2009] ZAGPJHC 40
Amrich 159 Property Holding CC v Van Wesemb Eeck
21
August 2009
08/31859
[2009] ZAGPJHC 39
KNS Construction (Pty) Limited v Genesis on Fairmount and
Another
21
August 2009
03/21585
[2009] ZAGPJHC 38
Inviticus Holdings (Pty) Ltd (formerly Meridian
Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd) and Others v Advtech Limited and
Others (Application for Leave to Appeal)
20
August 2009
637/2009
; 638/09
; 09/8830
; 09/8941
[2009] ZAGPJHC 41
Firstrand Bank Limited v Maleke ; Firstrand Bank Limited v
Motingoe and Another ; Peoples Mortgage Ltd v Mofokeng and
Another ; Firstrand Bank Limited v Mudlaudzi
18
August 2009
35697/08
[2009] ZAGPJHC 44
Rudolph and Another v National Director of Public
Prosecutions and Another
11
August 2009
31278/07
[2009] ZAGPJHC 35
Gover v Road Accident Fund
7
August 2009
A5044/08
[2009] ZAGPJHC 36
Walljee and Another v Botto and Another
3
August 2009
A3024/05
[2009] ZAGPJHC 37
Byrne v Masters Squash Promoters CC and Another
31
July 2009
08/32943
[2009] ZAGPJHC 33
Bhugwan v JSE Limited
Jo'burg
school girl killers get life - 17 August
Three men who were recently convicted of killing 12-year-old
Emily Williams in 2008 have been sentenced to life in prison.
Williams was killed after she was hit by a stray bullet during
in a shootout between robbers and security guards in Fairland in
February 2008. - Eye
Witness News website
S
African government welcomes High Court decision on Bus Rapid
Transit (BRT) system launch - 31 August
Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has welcomed the decision of
the High Court in Pretoria which ruled yesterday, 28 August 2009
against an urgent application by the taxi industry to prevent
the launch of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. - eGov
Monitor website
Cosatu,
Sanco condemn taxi strike over BRT system - 24 August
Heavyweight union federation Cosatu and a host of civic
organisations like Sanco have condemned next week's planned
taxi strike in protest against the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
system.
Cosatu urged the government "to ensure that all the law
enforcement agencies act swiftly to avoid any lawbreaking
activities" ahead of next Tuesday’s countrywide strike
action. - Weekend Post
website
Jhb
council signs BRT operating contract - 28 August
While the South African National Taxi Council was still in court
to halt Sunday's start of Johannesburg's bus rapid transit (BRT)
system, the city council on Friday signed an interim operational
contract with a special purpose vehicle (SPV) company to operate
the public transport system while negotiations with affected
taxi operators were being finalised. Phase 1A of the BRT system
would displace 575 taxis. The SPV is 100% owned by a trust, the
beneficiaries of which are the taxi operators affected by phase
1A of the BRT system. - Creamer
Media's Engineering News website
Ndebele
welcomes BRT victory - 29 August
Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele was pleased that taxi
operators failed to stop the launch of the Bus Rapid Transit
(BRT) system in Johannesburg, he said in a statement on
Saturday. "The court decision means that we, as government,
are now able to move a step closer towards providing safe,
efficient and affordable public transport to the citizens of
South Africa," he said. - News24
website
BRT
system under pressure as taxis strike - 31 August
The City of Johannesburg said on Monday that it would work round
the clock to iron out operational and capacity challenges
following the official launch of the Rea Vaya Bus Rapid Transit
(BRT) system on Sunday. This followed reports that many taxis
were not operating, despite the industry’s decision not to
go-ahead with its earlier planned strike in protest against the
introduction of the BRT system. - Creamer
Media's Engineering News website
Johannesburg's
new bus route attacked by taxi gunmen - 2 September
Two public buses, which started running on a route between
Soweto and Johannesburg on Aug. 30, were shot at by men in a
minibus taxi yesterday, injuring two passengers, South African
police said. Both victims, one of whom was a policeman, are in a
stable condition following the shooting that took place at about
8 pm local time. - Bloomberg
website
See
also :
2010
plans upset South Africa's taxis - 2 September
As South Africa rolls out new buses in Johannesburg ahead of the
2010 football World Cup, thousands of minibus taxi-drivers in
Cape Town want to put the brakes on a similar plan to revamp the
coastal city's transport system. - BBC
News website
Keyphrase :
2010 FIFA World Cup
Harmse
not remorseful : State - 1 September
Morne Harmse has not shown any remorse for killing a fellow
student with a sword, the High Court in Johannesburg heard
during sentencing procedures on Tuesday. "The guilty party
is certainly a first time offender, but he shows absolutely no
remorse over his gruesome deeds," argued prosecutor Gerrit
Roberts. Harmse carried out the attack, in which he killed
16-year-old Jacques Pretorius and wounded three others, at the
Nic Diederichs Technical High School in Krugersdorp, west of
Johannesburg, last August. - News24
website
Sword
killer 'tried' witchcraft expert - 1 September
Sword killer Morne Harmse may not have been a practising
satanist, but he was dabbling in the occult. This was according
to satanism expert Dr Kobus Jonker, who testified this morning
in the pre-sentencing hearing of the teenager who went on the
rampage with a ninja sword at his school last year, killing a
fellow pupil. - IOL website
Court
views swords, masks in teen's trial - 1 September
Court officials on Tuesday laid various swords and masks on a
table just before the High Court in Johannesburg started
sentencing a Krugersdorp teenager convicted of hacking another
to death. The masks appeared crudely home-made with one
featuring a clown face with a red satanist star, while another
had thick rope resembling sparse hair strands twirling out of an
orange, crumpled paper face. Another had an elongated nose made
out of a tin can. Four swords of various lengths were also laid
out on a table in the court room. - IOL
website
Devil
'didn't make him do it' - 2 September
Morne Harmse, 19, was not under the influence of the devil when
he took a ninja sword to school and slashed the throat of a
fellow pupil. Yesterday, an occult specialist and former head of
the police's disbanded occult-related crimes unit, Dr Kobus
Jonker, testified that although Harmse had been experimenting
with Satanism and witchcraft, his involvement in such practices
was superficial. - IOL
website
Samurai
sword killer case a difficult one : judge - 2 September
The South Gauteng High Court judge in Morne Harmse’s
murder trial has been asked to consider his age, immaturity and
his history of family violence when handing down sentencing next
Thursday. - Eye
Witness News website
Rapists
smile as woman breaks down - 1 September
Some of the men found guilty of gang-raping a Tembisa woman
smiled as the victim's sister wept in the witness stand of the
Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday. The woman, who cannot be
named to protect her sister's identity, described the
difficulties the family had faced since the 2005 crime. - IOL
website
Upbringing
blamed for gang rape - 2 September
The defence lawyers of six of the seven men found guilty of
the gang rape of a woman in Tembisa in 2005 claimed on
Wednesday that disadvantaged personal circumstances were a
factor in their behaviour. The representatives told judge Lucy
Mailula in the High Court in Johannesburg that factors
including absent fathers, both parents in one case, and the
township the accused were brought up in, had an influence on
their criminal behaviour. - IOL
website
Tembisa
gang rapists sentenced - 14 September
The South Gauteng High Court handed down sentences of between
17 and 20 years on Friday after finding seven men guilty of
raping a 26-year-old Tembisa woman in 2005. - News24
website
Selebi
Case
Interpol
criticises Selebi trial delay - 2 September
Interpol secretary-general Ronald Noble criticised the slow
prosecution of corruption accused former South African police
chief Jackie Selebi. - The
Times website
Tannenbaum
Case (Ponzi Scheme)
Tannenbaum
: Rees to blame - 15 August
Barry Tannenbaum, the man accused of running South Africa’s
biggest investment scam, said he "stands by" his
accusation that lawyer Dean Rees was his accomplice in an
audacious R250-million fraud against Qatari property company
Barwa.
Tannenbaum has been accused of being the brains behind a
R3-billion Ponzi scheme that suckered Barwa and wealthy South
Africans, including ex-JSE chair Norman Lowenthal and Bond
Exchange boss Tom Lawless. - The
Times website
Tannenbaum
assets placed into final sequestration - 19 August
The personal estate in South Africa of Barry Tannenbaum, who
operated the Ponzi-type scheme that fleeced millions from
investors, has been placed in final sequestration. Judge
Martin Brassey granted the order in the South Gauteng High
Court yesterday despite a last-ditch attempt by Tannenbaum's
lawyers to get the provisional order extended. - Business
Report website
Tannenbaum
denies moving S African, Australian funds - 19 August
Barry Tannenbaum, the money manager at the center
of a Ponzi scheme investigation, said he hasn’t moved assets
out of South Africa and Australia, contradicting a South
African government task force that said he had. The task force
and Tannebaum’s investors are searching for money after a
court yesterday froze his assets in South Africa. Lawyers said
they will try to do the same in Australia. - Bloomberg
website