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President Cyril Ramaphosa s lifting of the ban on religious gatherings has not deterred faith-based organisations from challenging the government in court seeking an order to compel it to do away with the ban.
The SA National Christian Forum, Freedom of Religion SA
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AfriForum and Muslim Lawyers Association filed an urgent application against the ban, which was meant to be heard on Tuesday in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.
The organisations have agreed to abandon their urgent application following the announcement by the president of allowing only 50 worshippers in an indoor venue and 100 people outdoors.
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A Johannesburg police officer has been handed two 25-year sentences for killing his girlfriend and an Uber driver.
Sergeant Geshwin Sweni murdered his girlfriend after they had an argument and she decided to leave him on 1 May 2019.
The police officer was handed over to authorities by his father.
The South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg handed a VIP Protection Unit police officer two 25-year sentences for killing his girlfriend and an Uber driver.
According to the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), Sergeant Geshwin Sweni murdered his girlfriend after they had an argument and she decided to leave him on 1 May 2019.
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
Documents in a court action have revealed how SAPS Crime Intelligence attempted to have R45-million released from the Secret Service Account (SSA) in 2017 to deal with a “possible national security threat” of some “magnitude” before the ANC’s highly charged elective conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg in 2017.
Lieutenant General Francinah Vuma, divisional commissioner: financial management and administration, in an affidavit to the South Gauteng High Court, set out how that December a “minister in the security cluster” had alerted then president Jacob Zuma of the alleged imminent force majeure.
The nature of this threat, which warranted the secret and emergency procurement of a listening device – known as a grabber – at the outrageously inflated price of R45-million, has not yet been disclosed or determined.
HHPâs dad asks ConCourt for last word on sonâs customary marriage
By Loyiso Sidimba
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Johannesburg - The father of late rap superstar HHP is turning to the Constitutional Court to challenge problematic uncertainties, unfairness, grey areas, ambiguities and guesswork to which customary marriages are subjected in South African law.
Robert Tsambo has complained to the apex court that the country s legal system treats customary marriages as variable and flexible and that this is problematic as the same is not applied to civil marriages, which leads to unequal and unfair treatment.
âThere is a need for 80% of the population of this country to have clarity of application of the legal system which is central to them forming new relationships of marriage. The legal system must enable them to practise their custom of customary marriage without the uncertainty of what the various legal precedents are creating in their customary marriages,â Tsambo states in his Cons