This year saw numerous high-profile cases playing out in South Africa's courts, including the ongoing trial surrounding the murder of football star Senzo Meyiwa and the private prosecution case against President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Johannesburg - The country's courts were hard at work in 2024, with old and new cases being deliberated. In October 2014, Senzo Meyiwa was shot while at the home of his girlfriend, singer Kelly Khumalo. It took six years for arrests to be made for the murder and a total of eight years before the trial could begin. Two years since the first day of the trial, a verdict is yet to be delivered on the culpability of the five men accused of the beloved football star’s murder.
The group is charged for Bester’s brazen escape from Mangaung maximum security prison over two years ago. They face over 30 counts of fraud, corruption, arson, violating a corpse, and aiding and abetting a prisoner escape, among others. The high-profile trial of alleged underworld gang boss Nafiz Modack continued in the Western Cape High Court this year. Zuma alleged bias on the part of Downer and that he had unlawfully leaked the former president’s confidential medical information to the press, in violation of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Act. Handing down reasons for dismissing Zuma's latest application in September, Judge Nkosinathi Chili highlighted that “as things stand there is no private prosecution” and that the courts had found Zuma’s case against Downer to be an abuse of process. Zuma served Ramaphosa with a summons in 2022 for a private prosecution on charges of being an accessory after the fact to contraventions of the NPA Act in a matter involving State advocate, Billy Downer. Among other court visits, the newly-formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party was taken to court by the African National Congress (ANC) to change its name and logo. The ANC said that the use of the name and logo uMkhonto weSizwe by Zuma’s party was an infringement of its trademark as these are linked to its former armed wing
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