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And while the 40-year-old Zimbabwean national had pleaded guilty to his crimes, magistrate Busiwe Mnyani was not swayed to deviate from the minimum prescribed sentence for the rape of a minor.

A heated exchange between the magistrate presiding over alleged wife killer Arnold Terblanche’s bail application and defence attorney Peter Daubermann played out in court after magistrate Kriban Pillay ruled that he would not give judgment at an earlier date.

The conduct of a Humansdorp prosecutor, accused of failing to report the sexual abuse of a minor to authorities, has been labelled improper and irregular in at least two other court cases.

An application for leave to appeal against a high court ruling which saw the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) ordered to fork out more than R9m to a contractor has been dismissed.

The case against a Gqeberha woman found guilty of falsifying her radiography qualification, and who worked at Livingstone Hospital for six months before she was caught out, was postponed for a report to be submitted regarding the welfare of her minor child should she go to jail.

A Gqeberha businesswoman accused of cooking the books to under report revenue to the taxman so she could pocket millions, will bring an application for the dismissal of the charges at the close of the state’s case, the court heard on Tuesday.

The case against a 41-year-old fisherman accused of raping a friend’s six-year-old daughter was postponed on Monday after the Humansdorp Regional Court heard that he was still out at sea.

Suspended Nelson Mandela Bay housing boss Mvuleni Mapu will be back in court in January after the case was postponed on Monday.

A Gqeberha father found guilty of assaulting his nine-year-old son several times with a wooden spoon because he did not know how to play Minecraft properly, has been handed a five-year suspended prison sentence.

The trial of three people accused of swindling a Gqeberha wholesaler out of nearly R2m is expected to continue in the city’s commercial crimes court on Friday.