Brown Mogotsi denied bail again
The Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court has dismissed information peddler Brown Mogotsi’s second bail application.
Peet Viljoen fires advocate, brings in big guns in bid for bail
Disbarred lawyer and alleged shoplifter Peet Viljoen will face another two weeks in jail as he calls in the big guns to get him out of Kgosi Mampuru Prison after his arrest on 400 charges.
Infamous askari Joe Mamasela, charged with apartheid-era crimes, gets bail
Two former apartheid-era informers walked out of the Benoni Regional Court on Thursday on bail, their release secured almost entirely by failing health – one battling dementia, the other requiring dialysis three times a week.
KZN court rules that killing children in womb is murder
A pregnant woman was strangled to death by her police sergeant boyfriend the day before she was due to give birth to their triplets. Her death resulted in the law being developed to include the killing of unborn children as murder after seven months of gestation.
KZN court makes landmark ruling declaring right to early childhood development
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg granted an order on Tuesday declaring, for the first time in South Africa, that all children have a right to early childhood development, and that the state’s failure to pay subsidies to ECD centres in the province was unlawful and unconstitutional.
Tumelo Nku was a ‘drug trafficker’, not an informer, Hawks analyst tells Madlanga Commission
A Hawks analyst giving evidence behind closed doors at the Madlanga Commission testified that businessman Tumelo Nku was not a police informant, but an active drug trafficker with political connections to the ANC.
Brown Mogotsi accused of pressuring witness to alter statement from prison
Alleged political fixer Brown Mogotsi faces fresh allegations that he interfered with State witnesses from behind bars, with his wife accused of repeatedly visiting and pressuring a witness to alter her statement.
Suspended KZN Hawks head Senona offended by theory he used safe key to stage cocaine theft
KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major General Lesetja Senona told the Madlanga Commission on Friday that he took “serious offence” at the theory that someone used a key, only he had possession of, to open the walk-in safe where 541kg of cocaine was being stored and then stage a break-in.
KZN Hawks head was suspended at gunpoint and marched out, Madlanga Commission hears
KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major General Lesetja Senona told the Madlanga Commission on Friday that officers suspended him at gunpoint, marched him out of his office, and told him not to return – an experience that made him fear for his safety and that of his family.
Madlanga Commission hears cocaine bust analyst behind closed doors over safety fears
The Madlanga Commission has granted an application for a Hawks analyst to testify behind closed doors, with the witness warning that the findings pointed to a wider criminal network inside law enforcement.