Doctors shouldn’t have to operate from a space of fear
South Africa places a lower burden of proof against prosecuted doctors when it comes to negligence and ‘foreseeable’ adverse outcomes.
South Africa places a lower burden of proof against prosecuted doctors when it comes to negligence and ‘foreseeable’ adverse outcomes.
The SA government is attempting to patch up Russian relations following minister Naledi Pandor’s call for Russia to withdraw from Ukraine.
Like the rest of South Africa – and much of the world – Irvine Green has been a close follower of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. But unlike most armchair Matlocks, he was rooting for the shooter.
The sentencing for convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius began yesterday and here are 10 stand-out quotes from Monday’s proceedings.
Oscar Pistorius was granted R10,000 bail following his conviction for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day two years ago.
The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the State in the Oscar trial, setting aside a 2014 culpable homicide conviction by a high court.
The Department of Correctional Services said in a statement that Oscar Pistorius will be placed under house arrest from Tuesday.
Oscar Pistorius will not be freed on parole this Friday because the decision to do so was made without the right legal basis, shocking the athlete’s family who were preparing for his homecoming.
Oscar Pistorius’s legal team lost its attempt to have the State Prosecutors’ appeal blocked, so questioning of the culpable homicide verdict will go ahead.
High Court in Pretoria Judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday dismissed an application by the State against Oscar Pistorius’s sentence but granted the appeal against his conviction of culpable homicide.