Nortier worked as a state prosecutor, before going into private practice.
Leon Nortier.
Supplied Supplied What happened … terrible. So shocking, she told News24 on Wednesday.
She described him as a brilliant legal mind who would solve conundrums in ways others wouldn’t even have considered. We used to discuss legal cases at length and he would come up with great solutions. He was a great person … What happened is surreal.
Prosecutor Christenus van der Vijver, who got to know Nortier in the early 1990s when he joined the Director of Public Prosecutions’ office, said he was shocked by his former colleague’s death. They had just recently discussed a legal question surrounding labour law, an area he said Nortier specialised in.
The Anti-Gang Unit has dealt the drug trade a severe blow after arresting two suspects who were found with a stash of illegal firearms, ammunition and drugs in their possession.
Cape Town land activists protest in solidarity with KZN comrades
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Cape Town - Land activists representing land justice movements and land occupations in 17 areas across the city, demonstrated outside Cape Town Magistrate s Court on Thursday, in solidarity with their leaders, who appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court in KwaZulu-Natal.
Two leaders, Mqapheli Bonono and Siniko Miya, whose matter was postponed to Monday, were arrested on a charge of conspiracy to commit murder following alleged witness statements made about the content of a meeting they chaired in March.
Right2Know spokesperson Busi Mtabane condemned “the unwarranted and seemingly alleged politically motivated arrests of Abahlali Basemjondolo’s Deputy President Bonono and Miya on what appeared to be fabricated charges”.
Gang members caught with drugs in court holding cells
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CAPE TOWN - Two suspects appeared in court on Friday on additional charges after being caught with drugs in the Bishop Lavis Magistrateâs Courtâs holding cells.
According to provincial police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk, the two suspects, aged 28 and 30, were found with drugs in their possession when an intelligence-driven operation focusing on activities in and around the court was conducted on Thursday.
Van Wyk said court orderlies received information that drugs were being smuggled into the holding cells, destined for a gang member who was set to appear in a case.