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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tensions are high ahead of the trial of South African former President Jacob Zuma’s daughter which begins in Durban on Monday. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla faces terror-related charges for allegedly fueling the July 2021 riots which swept through South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces after her father [...]
©- - 10 november 2025 - 07:35:22 - thread Society (306 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The KwaZulu-Natal High Court has ruled that the 1967 death of liberation hero Albert Luthuli was a murder, overturning the decades-old finding that it was an accident. Luthuli’s peaceful fight against Apartheid earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960. It was the first [...]
©- - 31 october 2025 - 08:21:22 - thread Society (316 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Gauteng High Court in South Africa has dismissed Patriotic Alliance lawmaker Kenny Kunene’s attempt to challenge the hate speech finding made against him for referring to Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema as a “cockroach”.Kunene made the remarks in a 2021 television [...]
©- - 06 august 2025 - 08:41:04 - thread Society (231 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) has expressed grave concern over the conviction and imprisonment of President of the Law Society of eSwatini, Mangaliso Magagula, on charges of contempt of court. Supreme Court Judge Titus Mlangeni last week sentenced  Mangaliso Magagula to four months [...]
©- - 10 june 2025 - 08:17:14 - thread Society (321 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday paid tribute to Chief Justice Zondo who is retiring at the end of August after a distinguished judicial career spanning 27 years.Ramaphosa appointed Zondo in 2022. Reflecting on the significance of this role, the President said the position [...]
©- - 21 august 2024 - 07:56:19 - thread Society (244 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s legal fraternity has widely welcomed Justice Mandisa Maya’s appointment as the first woman Chief Justice in the country's history. Maya is set to take over as Chief Justice from 1 September.  President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday said the appointment follows his consultation, in [...]
©- - 26 july 2024 - 13:25:31 - thread Society (399 words)


 Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice  has issued a landmark decision in a case of enforced disappearance in The Gambia during the regime of former Gambian President Yahya Jamme, PANA reported here Monday.The report said  that the  count also   found that [...]
©- - 15 july 2024 - 18:36:18 - thread Society (795 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has announced that the inquest into the death of former anti-apartheid activist Chief Albert Luthuli will be reopened. He also announced inquests into the mysterious deaths of activists Griffiths Mxenge and Booi Mantyi would be reopened. Luthuli became Africa’s first Nobel laureate [...]
©- - 14 may 2024 - 09:00:15 - thread Society (318 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Convicted killer Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday but he will be released from prison. The Correctional Supervision and Parole Board spent less than an hour deliberating whether the 37-year-old Paralympian met the requirements for release. It also considered a victim impact statement submitted by [...]
©- - 24 november 2023 - 16:36:20 - thread Society (260 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government has reacted with outrage at the refusal by the UAE to extradite the fugitive Gupta brothers. The Justice Department has been notified of the decision in a diplomatic note despite the fact that it was made in February. Rajesh and Atul Gupta, [...]
©- - 08 april 2023 - 07:32:23 - thread Society (307 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Thursday dismissed former President Jacob Zuma's attempts to challenges his corruption prosecution, just 11 days before he is due in the dock. The SCA found that Zuma's petitions had "no reasonable prospects of success in an appeal and [...]
©- - 31 march 2022 - 13:58:08 - thread Society (317 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former President Jacob Zuma's lawyers will Tuesday argue his appeal against a court ruling ordering his return to jail. The Pretoria High Court last week ruled that Zuma was not eligible for the medical parole that saw him released from prison. He had served just two [...]
©- - 20 december 2021 - 12:55:10 - thread Society (326 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The Pretoria High Court on Wednesday said former President Jacob Zuma was not eligible for the medical parole that saw him released from prison. He had served just two months into his 15 months sentence for contempt of the Constitutional Court. The court ordered that [...]
©- - 15 december 2021 - 12:27:22 - thread Society (277 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) on Wednesday launched an application to declare that the decision to grant former President Jacob Zuma medical parole is unlawful and is set aside. This follows a previous application by the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) challenging Correctional Services department [...]
©- - 15 september 2021 - 18:14:47 - thread Society (282 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African businessman has filed an application in the North Gauteng High Court against Malawian prophet, Shepherd Bushiri, claiming that the fugitive pastor has failed to pay him for a US$5 million contract. Anele Beke claims he was recruited to create an online platform [...]
©- - 30 august 2021 - 16:56:26 - thread Society (208 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A group of Mozambican civil society organisations (CSOs) have approached the North Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, South Africa, to stop the extradition of Mozambique's former Finance Minister, Manuel Chang. It believes he will not stand trial in Maputo where he has been heavily implicated [...]
©- - 26 august 2021 - 17:45:15 - thread Society (269 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The United States on Wednesday expressed its disappointment at South Africa's decision to extradite former Mozambican Finance minister Manuel Chang to Maputo. South Africa’s Justice ministry earlier this week confirmed that Chang would be handed over to Mozambican authorities after languishing in a Johannesburg jail [...]
©- - 25 august 2021 - 15:33:28 - thread Society (223 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A group calling for the release of former President Jacob Zuma from prison has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to act against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, his Cabinet and several ministers and generals. The #FreeJacobZuma movement accuses them of crimes against humanity in [...]
©- - 05 august 2021 - 13:58:41 - thread Society (226 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – There has been widespread reaction to the Constitutional Court decision to sentence former President Jacob Zuma to 15-months imprisonment for contempt of court. The ruling, handed down on Tuesday, made headlines around the world. It marked the first time that a former President has been [...]
©- - 30 june 2021 - 12:48:47 - thread Society (380 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Western Cape High Court has ordered Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue to pay a South African man US$2.74 million in damages. This is after Daniel Janse van Rensburg was jailed and tortured in Equatorial Guinea's Black Beach prison in 2013 and [...]
©- - 19 june 2021 - 13:37:23 - thread Society (188 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Monday asked the Constitutional Court to sentence former South Africa President Jacob Zuma to two years behind bars for contempt. This is after he defied its ruling that he appear before the commission and answer non-incriminating questions. In [...]
©- - 22 february 2021 - 15:13:55 - thread Society (279 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former President Jacob Zuma of South Africa on Monday said he would not be participating in the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture’s urgent Constitutional Court case compelling him to testify before the commission next year. The commission lodged an urgent application on 3 December, [...]
©- - 14 december 2020 - 17:01:10 - thread Society (216 words)


Tunis,Tunisia (PANA) - Human rights groups have hailed Morocco's highest court for examining the case of 19 Sahrawi men imprisoned since 2010 after violent clashes with the police. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said on Sunday that a verdict is expected on November 25. The men are serving sentences of 20 [...]
©- - 08 november 2020 - 16:32:55 - thread Society (420 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's former Prosecutor General, Jean Bosco Mutangana, has been released a few days after his  arrest last week over forged judicial documents, the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) spokesperson, Thierry Murangira, confirmed  in a statement on Tuesday in Kigali. The RIB said that Mutangana was released on Monday, [...]
©- - 03 november 2020 - 15:30:12 - thread Society (161 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)  - Rwanda Public Prosecution Authority on Friday confirmed the arrest of former minister of education and head of several Government agencies, Dr Daphrose Gahakwa, on corruption charges. Gahakwa is accused of "wrongful exercise of public service" for the alleged mismanagement of public funds, judicial reports said. The prosecution authority [...]
©- - 02 october 2020 - 16:35:38 - thread Society (109 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -   Rwanda's former  Presidential Guard commander, Col. Tom Byabagamba who was recently sentenced to 15 years in jail, is now accused of "stealing a mobile phone in court", a judicial source revealed on Monday in Kigali. Byabagamba, who was arrested in 2014, said he found the lost phone [...]
©- - 07 september 2020 - 16:49:27 - thread Society (198 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The inquest into the 1982 death of anti-Apartheid activist Dr Neil Aggett will re-convene on 20 January in the Gauteng High Court. Aggett was found hanged in his cell at the notorious Johan Vorster Square Police Station where many other liberation heroes lost their lives. The [...]
©- - 14 january 2020 - 14:26:00 - thread Society (235 words)


Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The trial of Capt. Amadou Aya Sanogo, who led the coup d'état that overthrew Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré in 2012, and his co-defendants, including Fousseïny Diarra, has been postponed to a future session of the criminal court, according to a press release issued on Thursday [...]
©- - 10 january 2020 - 13:48:35 - thread Society (335 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan media owner and manager of Kigali-based GoodRich TV, who disappeared recently while being sought by Rwandan justice over his alleged involvement in assaulting a female employee, has on his own surrendered to the police, a judicial source confirmed on Friday in Kigali. Dr Francis Habumugisha, vanished [...]
©- - 13 december 2019 - 18:13:09 - thread Society (269 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) has rrested a Nigerian lecturer, currently serving at the University of Rwanda, Nyagatare Campus in North Eastern Rwanda, over an allegation of defilement, according to local media reports in the region on Sunday. The suspect who was identified by RIB as Dr. John [...]
©- - 20 october 2019 - 09:36:44 - thread Society (135 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, on Saturday joined the chorus of condemnation following the deadly terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday.   The attack left 49 people dead and another 20 seriously injured.   "The government and the people of South Africa convey [...]
©- - 16 march 2019 - 15:44:27 - thread Society (200 words)

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