Zelda Venter

Multimedia Journalist, Court

New regulations aim to formalise traditional healing practices in South Africa

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New regulations in South Africa are set to formalise traditional healing practices, addressing the legitimacy of medical certificates issued by traditional healers ...

Diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg back in C-Max as bail application postponed again

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Louis Liebenberg, accused of orchestrating a R4 billion diamond investment fraud, has been sent back to C-Max Prison after his bail application was postponed yet ...

NC court rules on bank error: Client must repay R935,949. 83

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In a case before the Northern Cape High Court, sitting in Kimberley, First Rand Bank approached the court for an order that one of its clients, who holds an academic ...

Consumer wins against Cell C: R500,000 fine over roaming charges

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A Cell C client scored a victory after the cellphone provider overcharged her for international roaming. A tribunal said Cell C contravened the Consumer Protection ...

Ramaphosa pays tribute to South Africa’s soldiers killed in the DRC

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“They lost their lives in the name of duty, in pursuit of peace and in the cause of silencing the guns across our beloved continent, Africa. They lost their lives ...

Khoisan group evicted from Union Buildings threaten to report Ramaphosa to Trump

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The Khoisan group have been protesting for their “indigenous rights” and recognition as South Africa's “first nation”. They criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa, ...

Judge calls for stronger alcohol warnings to combat GBV

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A Judge who has seen too many gender-based violence cases serving before him involving the consumption of alcohol, has urged the Minister of Health to add more warnings ...

Revolutionary heart surgery now available in Gauteng

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The Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) has become the first health facility in Gauteng to successfully perform the MitraClip implants to mend ...

Court reduces sentence for mother convicted of child murder

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Three judges of the Gauteng High Court said while they did not condone what the mother had done to her child, the judge who sentenced her in 2019 failed to substantiate ...

Cattle food technology used to address global warming

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This technology allows researchers to control and monitor the amount of feed consumed by each animal, resulting in a significant reduction in both methane and CO2 ...

Court says no to woman cashing-in on two men in her life

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The court has firmly rejected the demands of an unemployed woman seeking interim maintenance from her divorcing husband while living with her lover, who provides ...

BREAKING NEWS: Gauteng High Court allows publication of matric results amidst legal dispute

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The Gauteng High Court has ruled in favour of the Department of Basic Education, allowing the publication of matric results despite a challenge from the Information ...

A lifeline for NC man who stole sheep to feed family

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A man who stole and slaughtered one Dorper ewe so that he could feed his family received a lifeline after the Kimberley High Court reduced his four-year imprisonment ...

No more loopholes for sexual perpetrators

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No more loopholes for sexual perpetrators as amended Sexual Offences Act for ‘consent’ declared unconstitutional

Life for man who infected girlfriend with HIV

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The pair were in a love relationship for four months from December 2016 to April the following year.

Historic SA court ruling shatters patriarchy - husbands win right to take wives’ surnames

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In a landmark ruling, the Bloemfontein High Court has granted two husbands the right to adopt their wives' surnames, striking down an outdated provision of the Births ...

Copyright Bill deadline lapses, leaving visually impaired at risk of ‘book famine’

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The deadline for President Cyril Ramaphosa to sign the Copyright Amendment Bill into law, which would allow millions of visually impaired people including the blind ...

Thabo Bester loses bid for laptop to prepare deportation case and trial

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A feisty Bester argued for a long time about his rights which he claimed are being trampled on and how he is made out to be a monster.

Who took the money? Free State municipality faces court battle over missing R38 million pension funds

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Nearly R38 million in pension fund contributions, deducted from employees’ salaries by the Mafube Municipality in the Free State, has mysteriously disappeared, prompting ...

Party bash during Covid came back to bite bank official

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A party more than three years ago, during the Covid-19 pandemic, returned to haunt a bank official who had arranged the gathering, going against the bank’s Covid-19 ...

Pencil in boy’s eye will cost Education Department R2. 5 million

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The mother of a child who was injured when a teacher assaulted the pupil by piercing his left eye with a pencil, which penetrated into the brain behind the eye, ...

Nersa fails in bid to appeal municipal power tariff ruling

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A victory for millions of municipal electricity consumers was achieved when the National Energy Regulator of South Africa lost its appeal bid against an earlier ...

ConCourt asked to review Hlophe’s controversial JSC appointment

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AfriForum has started legal proceedings to challenge the National Assembly’s recent appointment of impeached judge president John Hlophe as a member of the Judicial ...

NPA fails in bid to get Tariomix R100m back

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The National Prosecuting Authority has failed in its urgent legal bid to have about R100 million, which was initially kept in a special Absa Bank account but later ...

Court bid to stop ‘exorbitant’ municipal electricity hikes

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AfriForum will turn to the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, on June 25 against the National Energy Regulator of SA in a bid to stop it from considering municipalities’ ...