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Jan
14
2024
By The African Mirror
South Africa’s legal team in the genocide case against Israel has won praise. Who are they?

South Africa’s legal team in the genocide case against Israel has won praise. Who are they?

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
SOUTH African justice minister Ronald Lamola led a top legal team to argue the country’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 11 January. NARNIA BOHLER-MULLER, Divisional Executive, Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research division, Human Sciences Research Council South Africa argues that Israel’s indiscriminate retaliatory bombing and siege of Gaza contravenes the Genocide Convention. More than 23,000 Palestinians, including at least 10,000 children, have been killed. Narnia Bohler-Muller, an international law and human rights law expert, says the South African legal team argued soundly that Israel’s actions in Gaza are genocidal, and tells us…
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Apr
15
2023
By The African Mirror
Bester in court, the veil on his life slowly lifted

Bester in court, the veil on his life slowly lifted

NEWS
AS Thabo Bester, the recaptured killer-rapist appeared in court to face charges of escaping from jail, where he was serving a life sentence, the mystery that is his life has started to unravel. Bester appeared in the Bloemfontein High Court where his case was remanded to May16. On the same day, the South African government has revealed that Bester is indeed a South African citizen, born at the Chris-Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg on 13 June 1986 but his birth was never registered in the National Population Register. SA Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has also revealed that Bester…
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Jul
09
2021
By The African Mirror
Legal blows for Zuma, Magashule

Legal blows for Zuma, Magashule

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE high courts in South Africa have, in separate judgments, dealt blows to former President Jacob Zuma and his political ally, suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule. In the Maritzburg High Court, Judge Jerome Mnguni dismissed Zuma’s attempt to have his 15 month sentence, which he has started to serve, set aside. Zuma had applied to have the sentence suspended while the Constitutional Court considered his application to have the sentence rescinded. This application will be heard by the court on July 12. Mnguni said Zuma had not met the requirements for an interim interdict. He said the…
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