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Stellenbosch wine farmer Stefan Smit's widow, Zurenah, and the former member of his security team, Derek Sait, were charged shortly before their appearance for his murder with theft as well as for the illegal possession of guns and ammunition for allegedly stealing two of his firearms.
\t On Friday, internet and international calls were cut off across the West African nation in anticipation of the election results, according to locals and international observers in the capital, Conakry.
\t This was the third time that Conde matched-up against Diallo. Before the election, observers raised concerns that an electoral dispute could reignite ethnic tensions between Guinea's largest ethnic groups.
A group of boys from Philippi, Cape Town, has taken it upon themselves to remedy the state of the roads in their community.
The controversial suspension of one of the North West province's senior clinicians two weeks ago has been lifted, with Professor Ebrahim Variava returning to his post as head of internal medicine at the Klerksdorp Tshepong Hospital on 29 June.
The U-turn on the precautionary suspension by Polaki Mokatsane, the North West Deputy Director-General of Hospitals and Clinical Support Services, on 15 June, comes after outrage and public petitioning by Variava's colleagues.
Professor Neil Martinson, chief executive director of the Perinatal Research Unit at Wits, who drew up a petition calling for the withdrawal of Variava's suspension, said Variava's return to work will restore much needed capacity for fighting Covid-19 in the North West.
One is that Prof Variava's case got attention because it is high-profile and he had a lot of support, but we've heard about other high-handed suspensions in the province that have not been resolved for months and years,\" Martinson said.
Martinson added that questions remain over the manner in which Variava was suspended, including that the suspension came without warning, was made a day before a public holiday and that additional charges were made against him via the department's Twitter account two days later.
The state’s highest court routinely denies hearing cases, particularly sexual assault cases, but the panel has now agreed to hear Cosby.
In a significant legal victory for Bill Cosby, the state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of his 2018 conviction on charges of indecent aggravated assault.
The state Supreme Court also cited Cosby’s lawyer’s argument that former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor promised Cosby that he would never be charged with any crime related to the Constand matter.
“We’re extremely thankful to the State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for agreeing to review Mr. Cosby’s appeal.
Two businessmen allegedly linked to R1.2 billion tender corruption at the Gauteng health department in 2007 have not be arrested as they are out of the country.
In summary California election officials assure voters their ballot is safe in drop boxes and the mail, yet some voters are hand delivering anyway. Nervous voters in California are walking their mail-in ballots into elections departments so they can personally hand them to an election official. They want to be 100 percent certain their ballot […]
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Demonstrations across the U.S. to condemn racism and police abuses remained large but mostly without the violence of previous nights on the eve of a Thursday memorial service for George Floyd that kicks off a series of events to mourn the man whose death empowered a national movement.
The most serious new charge Wednesday was an accusation of second-degree murder against Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin, who was caught on video pressing his knee to Floyd’s neck.
Floyd’s name has become a rallying cry in other countries, too, unleashing protests against police violence and racial injustice.
Some demonstrators lay down to represent the amount of time a white police officer pressed a knee into Floyd’s neck while he pleaded for air.
An overpowering security force — including officers from the FBI Hostage Rescue Team, the Secret Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Prisons and, according to a senior defense official, at least 2,200 National Guard soldiers — was out in force Wednesday as thousands of peaceful protesters demonstrated in the nation’s capital.
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Senior Correspondent In a significant legal victory for Bill Cosby, the state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of his 2018 conviction on charges of indecent aggravated assault. In a stunning ruling handed down on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, the court noted it’s allowing the appeal on two []
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Port Barre, La. (AP) – From her front steps, Debra Mallet can see the plot of sandy-colored earth where her church once stood. It was ...
Here are all the PSL fixtures taking place on the opening weekend as the new season finally gets underway with some tantalising match-ups on the card.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court called the surrender of Sudanese militia leader Ali Kushayb to the war crimes tribunal “a pivotal development” for victims awaiting justice and urged Sudan to hand over former president Omar al-Bashir and two others wanted by the court.
Kushayb will be the first Darfur suspect to be tried at the court, and Bensouda thanked all parties involved in his surrender especially the governments of Central African Republic, Chad, France and the Netherlands and the U.N. mission in the Central African Republic.
Sudan’s U.N. Ambassador Omer Mohamed Siddig told the council the government read the ICC statement on the surrender of Kushayb, who fled Sudan and went into hiding in the Central African Republic.
But the ambassador gave no indication that the government will hand over the other suspects in its custody to the ICC, telling the council: “Al-Bashir and those implicated in Darfur crimes will face justice and be tried accordingly.”
After the meeting, the 10 Security Council members that are parties to the Rome Statute that established the ICC welcomed the surrender, arrest and transfer of Kushayb to the tribunal, calling it “very significant development to advance justice for the victims in Darfur.”
[Capital FM] Mombasa -- Malindi MP Aisha Jumwa and her bodyguard Geoffrey Okuto, a co-suspect in a murder case, were Friday released on Sh4 million and Sh1.5mn cash bail respectively after spending four nights in police custody in relation to an active murder case.
Three SANParks employees, among them two security guards, have been arrested in possession of fresh rhino horns outside the gates of the Kruger National Park.
In a significant legal victory for Bill Cosby, the state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of his 2018 conviction on charges of indecent aggravated assault. In a stunning ruling handed down on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, the court noted it’s allowing the appeal on two specific issues. The first is regarding the so-called prior bad acts []
The City of Birmingham will not prosecute anyone solely arrested for curfew violations and other minor charges from June 1 through June 7 during the height of the downtown demonstrations, according to the Office of the City Attorney on Wednesday.
Anyone who faces additional charges and who damaged property will still face the law, according to the city.
Protesters then moved into the city’s downtown area, setting fires and breaking out windows of local businesses.
“We recognize that there is a need to strike a balance between peaceful protesters and those that entered the City of Birmingham to cause civil unrest.
By not prosecuting those arrested for curfew violations and failure to disperse there may be “an opportunity for conversation between the community, law enforcement, and the city so that we can all listen and learn from the experience,” King said.
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — More than 130,000 autoworkers returned to factories across the U.S. for the first time in nearly two months Monday in one of the biggest steps yet to restart American industry, while an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus yielded encouraging results in a small and extremely early test.
At a Fiat Chrysler pickup truck assembly plant in Warren, outside Detroit, workers entered a giant white tent with a sign that read: “Let’s restart and keep each other safe.”
Detroit’s Big Three — Fiat Chrysler, General Motors and Ford — as well as Honda and Toyota all had screening procedures in place at dozens of factories that reopened from the Great Lakes states south to Tennessee and Texas and out west at Tesla’s factory near the San Francisco Bay.
Chinese President Xi Jinping defended China’s record, saying the country provided all relevant outbreak data to WHO and other countries, including the virus’s genetic sequence, “in a most timely fashion.”
But the Trump administration stepped up its attacks at the meeting, with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar accusing WHO of failing to obtain the information the world needed as the outbreak emerged.
According to Pastor Leon McCray, he saw two people trying to dispose off a refrigerator on his property.
County Sheriff Timothy Carter revealed last Sunday that the charge against Pastor McCray has been dropped and the five assailants have been detained and charged.
The Sheriff’s office revealed that the white family Donny Salyers, 43, Dennis Salyers, 26, Farrah Salyers, 42, Christopher Sharp, 57, and Amanda Salyers, 26, are being held without bond and are facing charges for hate crimes and other degrees of assault.
However, the officers who were involved in this wrongful arrest of Pastor McCray have been placed on administrative leave without pay.
It was through social media that Shenandoah County was called out on their unlawful arrest of Pastor McCray which expedited his charges being dropped.
• His evidence in terms of the process he explained occurs when he does legitimate work for the council (preparing, signing and submitting contractor invoice; the work is assessed and he visits the council to collect the cheque from the cashier where he presents his ID and signs for the cheque.
Testimony of AF (name withheld to protect witness) October 14-15, 2019 — evidence in chief
• He works as an entrepreneur buying and selling vehicles and knows Sanja Elliott for about 15 years up to 2013.
• He performed work on behalf of the council which Mr Elliott gave to him.
He submitted invoices to the council for this work and would collect the cheques from the council, which Mr Elliott would sometimes call about to inform him when they were ready.
Only about four times he collected cheques from the council, other times he met Mr Elliott by the bank or on the road and collected the cheque.
In a judgment penned by High Court Judge Judith Roberson, she said the experience must have been \"frightening, shocking and humiliating\" for the candidate attorney, identified as Ms N December.
Self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary Bushiri are expected to be tried in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria from 31 May to 18 June 2021.
Burundi's former president Pierre Buyoya says he will appeal a life sentence against him over the 1993 assassination of his successor.
Multiple people involved in the investigation had told us they were confident there was video from the May 13 incident — but a spokesperson for the Broward County State Attorney’s Office tells us straight-up there’s no video, “not that I’m aware of.”
As we previously reported, Baker is facing 8 felony charges including armed robbery and aggravated assault — while Dunbar is facing 4 counts of aggravated assault.
Baker has already pleaded not guilty to all 8 of the felony charges he is facing.
Allegedly Baker was the man in charge of the jux, thus the additional charges.
According to cops, Baker even ordered the man in the red mask to shoot one of the attendees.
The court also cited Cosby’s attorney’s plea that the prior bad act allegations lacked “any striking similarities or close factual nexus to the conduct for which Cosby was on trial.”
The Move One Million movement has marched to Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg to call on the Constitutional Court to hold those responsible for state capture accountable. Members of the movement also marched to Parliament in Cape Town, to hand over the same memorandum.
Yuri Garcia Dominguez and his wife, Ateeka Ishmael, two principals of Accelerated Capital Firm Inc (ACFI) were yesterday read 10 additional charges of conspiracy to commit a felony.
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Here's a quick glance at what the weather forecast holds in store across all the South African provinces. Stay warm or keep cool.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Chairperson of the main Opposition People's National Congress Reform (PNCR), Volda Lawrence, was on Wednesday slapped with a new charge of forgery arising out of the disputed March 2 regional and general elections.Lawrence, who was granted GUY$30,000, appeared in the Magistrate's Court alongside the Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo and the election agent for the PNCR, Carol Smith-Joseph.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey says the not guilty verdict of the six men who had been accused of several crimes as alleged members of the Westmoreland-based King Valley Gang, though unexpected, has not taken the fight from the lawmen.
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An old white woman is facing severe backlash after spitting on the face of a black teenager who was among dozens of people holding peaceful protests in suburban Milwaukee on Saturday, June 6, 2020.
The woman, Stephanie Rapkin, was finally arrested, despite calling the police after her menacing actions towards the crowd of black teenagers.
The 64-year-old is seen in a video arguing with an unidentified woman until the crowd of young people got agitated with her unsolicited and unprovoked diatribe toward them.
They asked her to remove her car out of the way while a black teen took up for the young woman.
Eric Lucas, the teen on whose face the woman spat, said he was traumatized by this action owing to the Coronavirus pandemic.
