Pistorius runs out of appeals – now faces a minimum of 12 years behind bars
Former paralympian Oscar Pistorius will now face sentencing following the Constitutional Court’s decision to deny his application for leave to appeal his murder conviction.
Former paralympian Oscar Pistorius will now face sentencing following the Constitutional Court’s decision to deny his application for leave to appeal his murder conviction.
The High Court in Pretoria will continue to hear arguments in an application brought by the DA to have the decision to drop corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma reviewed.
AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo is set to serve his first night in jail after his application to have his bail extended was dismissed by the Eastern Cape High Court.
AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo may spend the new year behind bars.
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.
A growing number of legislators in Brazil’s largest party see an impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff as an option to pull the country out of its deepening economic and political crisis.
A National Referendum would doubtless find overwhelming support of the opposition’s call for Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to return to Parliament to restate her case.
Culpable homicide convict Oscar Pistorius could be free from jail in as little as three months’ time and is keen to work with children upon his release.
A Brazilian prosecutor on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to investigate 54 people, including a clutch of politicians, over a deepening graft case that has rocked Petrobras, the nation’s largest corporation. The growing scandal, which investigators have dubbed Operation Car Wash, concerns kickbacks estimated at $3.8 billion at Petrobras, a state-owned oil giant.
China on Monday executed two members of a banned religious cult, a father and his daughter, for murdering a woman in a McDonald’s restaurant after she rebuffed an apparent recruitment attempt by the group, state media said.