The coffin case duo, Willem Oosthuyzen and Theo Jackson, have received the outcome of their petition for leave to appeal from Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.
It was just learned that the petition has been successful, meaning that the case will be brought before the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. A date has not been set.
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The Gauteng Education Department approached the Constitutional Court in a attempt to appeal against a finding by the High Court in Pretoria regarding Overvaal High School. The High Court gave the school equal not to accommodate 55 additional English-speaking learners. Violent protests broke out after the ruling, while members of the ANC and the EFF..
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The EFF had appeald to the Department of basic education to build more schools in Mbombela on Tuesday, the party procession to primary Nelspruit, Nellie ants preschool, bergvlam primary and Nelspruit primary, and handed over a memorandum in support of parents whose children were denied entry to the schools. The party also wants a balance..
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Two people sustained injuries ranging from minor to moderate after an apparent farm attack in Rietgat in the Hennenman District Sunday afternoon. When ER24 arrived on the scene at 14H20, they found one patient in the kitchen. Upon further assessment, he was found to have sustained minor injuries. Paramedics treated the man but he later..
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Colored parents in the Gauteng area believe there is a war against Afrikaans as a language and Afrikaans schools in particular. The impression is that the coloreds accept it, but they are now discriminating against their children as Afrikaans schools are moving to English medium schools and so they need to search for other Afrikaans..
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“The constitutional court’s recent pronouncements on the constitutional rights of minorities have material implications for the sustainability of the” vast majority “on which our constitution is based,” writes former president. FW De Klerk in tomorrow’s edition of Weekly. He said minorities were particularly dependent on the impartiality of the courts to maintain their constitutional rights…
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Tensions simmered on Wednesday outside Hoërskool Overvaal in Gauteng‚ which has been at the centre of a language row. A parent was punched by an EFF protester on Wednesday morning after he made an offensive gesture towards a group of protesting red beret supporters‚ after dropping off his daughter for #backtoschool2018. There is a heavy..
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Chief Justice Mongoeng’s recent statement on the University of the Freestate’s (UFS) language policy (delivered in the colonial English language) reaffirms his hatred against the Afrikaner as it has already emerged in his political ruling on 21 July 2016 regarding the change of street names in Pretoria. Two of his co-rulers Froneman and Cameron judged..
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The four men accused of the rape and murder of Stellenbosch student Hannah Cornelius seemed more concerned about wooing their lovers in court than the 10 charges they face. Geraldo Parsons smiled and blew kisses to his girlfriend after he heard that the case was postponed, yet again, to January 25. He was standing in..
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The ANC’s aspiring candidate for the leadership post, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said straight away that whites had stolen the land from blacks and robbed the country. She criticizes whites who oppose radical transformation, saying that if she is elected president, would take whites on a bus tour to show how poorly blacks live in informal squatter..
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A woman was stabbed and wounded in a house robbery in Moreleta Park, east of Pretoria, in the early hours of Monday. ER24 paramedics called to scene and found her and her 15-year-old daughter being consoled by Bull Security members, said ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring. “Paramedics found she had sustained numerous lacerations and stab wounds..
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The FF Plus in Gauteng said that the Gauteng Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi, must stop picking on Afrikaans schools in the province. This was in response to the latest incident in which the MEC attacked Primary School Danie Malan, situated in Pretoria North, in the media and on social media on account of its language..
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Global classifieds group OLX has banned the old South African flag from its platform. The decision comes after TimesLIVE last week revealed that the old flag and different types of memorabilia bearing the apartheid-era symbol were widely available for purchase on the internet. The report came a few days after the Black Monday protests‚ during..
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Farm employees Theo Jackson and Willem Oosthuizen‚ who were found guilty of assaulting Victor Mlotshwa and forcing him into a coffin‚ are yet to set foot in a prison cell. The pair have been kept in the sick bay of the Witbank Correctional Services facility since their sentencing two weeks ago‚ Oosthuizen’s attorney‚ Marius Coertze‚..
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