Domestic

The Constitutional Court has ratified a High Court order declaring sections of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act unconstitutional. A more “child-centred” approach must be adopted to keep children out of the criminal justice system.

There's been a dramatic twist in the case of Gqeberha businessman and murder accused Arnold Terblanche after one of his co-accused, Dylan Cullis, indicated that he wants to turn state's witness.

Vehicle theft and hijackings are back to pre-Covid levels, and Gauteng is SA's vehicle crime hotspot, followed by KwaZulu-Natal and then the Western Cape.

Eight of some of Nelson Mandela Bay’s top honchos will on Friday be dragged to face the music at the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Gqeberha. They face provisional charges of fraud, money laundering and contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act.

The National Prosecuting Authority says well-known Limpopo comedian, Ntambudzeni Rasendedza was sentenced to 10 years of direct imprisonment in the Sibasa Regional Court following his conviction for attempted murder and assault.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is investigating over R1.4-billion in dodgy Lottery grants, the unit’s head Andy Mothibi told the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Trade, Industry and Competition this week.

Gqeberha police are searching for two men who allegedly raped a 15-year-old Motherwell teenager and left her for dead. A police statement yesterday confirmed that the visibly ill and possibly sexually assaulted Zenizole Vena was allegedly turned away from the local clinic and told she had to go to the police station first .

Two foreign nationals believed to be part of an online international scam have been arrested in Pretoria.

A convicted terrorist and leader of a right-wing group called the National Christian Resistance Movement (NCRM) has been sentenced to life terms plus 21 years. Sixty-three-year-old Harry Johannes Knoesen was found guilty of all charges against him in June this year.