Marvin Charles
The City of Cape Town says occupiers of the Woodstock Hospital are in contempt of a court order.
The City adds that the number of occupiers has increased substantially.
Reclaim the City
has strongly opposed the matter, saying it did not have sufficient time to respond.
A legal showdown between illegal occupiers at the defunct Woodstock Hospital and the City of Cape Town is looming.
The City approached the Western Cape High Court to seek an order to conduct a survey of the 1 000 occupants staying in the property.
The occupiers, who are part of the Reclaim the City movement, have strongly opposed the matter. They say they did not have sufficient time to respond.
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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga came under fire this week for her comments about rape to a group of high school pupils at Prospectus High School in Pretoria. Her comments “conflated education with morality”, said sexual violence researcher at the University of Witwatersrand, Gorata Chengeta.
“This government has prioritised education because it knows that it’s only through education that we can deal with some of our challenges that are there, because an educated man won’t rape,” Motshekga said at an oversight visit at the school, with pupils disagreeing with her assertion.
In a statement of clarification Motshekga sent out later, she said that “regarding the reaction of the learners [about her comment on rape] I wasn’t going to debate because the purpose of my remarks was to encourage them to be educated on GBV”.
âCops failed in their duty to rescue raped woman and apprehend perpetratorsâ
By Siviwe Feketha
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Johannesburg - The Constitutional Court will have to uphold the appeal application by a Johannesburg businesswoman who is suing the SA Police Service (SAPS) over their alleged failure to save her from a 15-hour gang rape ordeal more than ten years ago.
This is according to legal teams who argued before the court on Tuesday the SAPS had failed in their statutory and constitutional duty to rescue the woman and apprehend her perpetrators.
According to court papers, the woman had been on a business trip to Port Elizabeth in 2010 when she was abducted, assaulted and eventually raped in sand dunes while walking at Kings Beach.
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
In 2019, an anonymous woman on Twitter accused DJ Fresh of rape. Two years later, he and his colleague, DJ Euphonik, have been accused by someone else of rape. This time, the person has opened a case against the two.
“In light of the serious allegations levelled against us we’ve decided to step away from all public work engagements until such … time [as] this matter has been resolved and the law has taken its course,” reads the statement released by the award-winning DJs.
The woman who opened the case a week ago first took to Twitter, alleging that the pair drugged and raped her at a party in 2011.