Browsing: Criminal Law

The Western Cape High Court has confirmed the eight year prison sentence of a lawyer convicted of statutory rape and child sexual exploitation in Muizenberg, while setting aside his conviction for engaging an adult’s sexual services.

A scholar transport driver has been sentenced to an effective five years’ imprisonment after six learners died in a high-speed crash in Mitchells Plain, with the court finding he ignored medical advice and acted with gross negligence.

The Thabamoopo Regional Court has sentenced a 38-year-old Magatle man to life imprisonment for raping his 13-year-old stepdaughter, a case the National Prosecuting Authority says highlights South Africa’s national crisis of gender-based violence.

More than 30 accused appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court in connection with an alleged R114 million Mpumalanga school tender fraud as marathon bail applications unfolded and the provincial government responded to the Hawks crackdown.

The Mpumalanga Division of the High Court has frozen assets worth more than R26 million in an alleged TERS relief fund fraud case, as the NPA moves to recover public money paid out during the COVID 19 pandemic.

An appeal court has set aside a life sentence in a child rape case after finding that the prosecution failed to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, citing contradictions in the child’s testimony, neutral medical evidence and serious gaps in the trial process.

Seven life terms and an additional 155 years headline a wave of life sentences in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, as courts impose the harshest penalties for serial rape, child rape and premeditated femicide.

A 60-year-old man who raped and impregnated his partner’s 10-year-old daughter, leaving her HIV positive, has lost his appeal against a life sentence.

The Pretoria High Court has lifted an interdict that shielded senior advocate Roelof du Plessis from prosecution, clearing the way for him to stand trial on an attempted murder charge linked to a road rage stabbing.

The High Court refused to halt the prosecution of Jacob Zuma and Thales, ruling that self created delays and unproven claims of unfairness cannot block a corruption trial.