by AfriForum | Feb 12, 2021 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
Adv. Gerrie Nel, head of AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, cross-examined a fire expert on 10 and 11 February 2021 in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court about the deaths of Suraya Deedat and her four children in a house fire in 2011. The fire expert was appointed...
by AfriForum | Feb 4, 2021 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
AfriForum announced at a media conference today that its Private Prosecution Unit had laid service charges with Lt Gen. Khehla John Sitole, national Police Commissioner, against police officers who unlawfully and irrationally confiscated alcohol worth thousands of...
by AfriForum | Jan 18, 2021 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
AfriForum’s private prosecution unit announced at a media conference today that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had refused to institute charges against Naas Le Roux. Le Roux was arrested on 7 January after he had violated the curfew during an emergency to...
by AfriForum | Dec 10, 2020 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
Wico Swanepoel, a lawyer at AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit, laid a charge of assault against Julius Malema, leader of the EFF, and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, EFF MP, at the Randburg police station on 9 December 2020. This follows Malema and Ndlozi threatening Swanepoel...
by AfriForum | Dec 9, 2020 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit today announced that the Department of Justice and Correctional Services failed to oppose the mandamus application which is aimed at forcing this Department to facilitate mutual legal aid to the Botswana government in the Bridgette...
by AfriForum | Dec 2, 2020 | Media statements, Private prosecution Media statements
Thandi Modise, Speaker in parliament, today appeared in the dock in the Potchefstroom Regional Court for the second consecutive day with regards to her hearing on charges of animal abuse after more than 200 animals had to be euthanised on her farm in 2014 due to...
