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OPINION | Youth must be informed of power of voting
For 2019’s national and provincial elections, the Independent Electoral Commission of SA has registered 3.3million voters in the Eastern Cape. As per the Census 2011, there are close to four million eligible voters from a population of 6.5 million in the province. The number of youths (the so-called ‘first time voters’) aged 18 and 19 registered to vote in 2019’s general elections in the Eastern… → Read More
Recall of Zuma a delicate matter – Cyril
Newly elected ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa yesterday said the issue of recalling state president Jacob Zuma was a delicate matter. In a televised interview with the state broadcaster he added that whatever decision the party’s newly elected national executive committee (NEC) took, Zuma would not be humiliated. Ramaphosa said rumours of Zuma’s impending recall was → Read More
Accused state fear of magic after murder victim’s threat
Chilling details about the murder of a Berlin woman, allegedly at the hands of a group of men while they were still initiates on Christmas Eve, emerged in the Mdantsane Magistrate’s Court yesterday. The five young men, aged between 16 and 19, applied for bail. They stand accused of killing Nolulamo “Lulu” Faku, 59, of → Read More
Officer who taxied ‘stranded’ citizen 75km not guilty of corruption
An East London police officer was yesterday acquitted on corruption charges. Constable Siviwe Ncita, 36, was arrested after he used a police van to transport a stranded member of the public from the Fleet Street police station to Komga. The member of the public, Njabulo Shange, told East London Regional Court 2 magistrate Ignatius Kitching → Read More
Murder accused await trial: DNA results on couple pending, says DPP office
The Director of Public Prosecutions in Grahamstown has reserved his decision on whether or not to prosecute double murder accused Buffalo City Metro ANC Ward 13 councillor Nokulunga Matiwane and her husband Mthuthuzeli Matiwane. The pair appeared in the East London Magistrate’s Court yesterday where the DPP’s decision on the matter was due to be → Read More
20 years for rape of stepdaughter, 12
An East London businessman who raped his 12-year-old stepdaughter as her mother slept in the bedroom nearby was sentenced yesterday to 20 years imprisonment.The mother, however, wants him to serve time out of prison as she told the court she misses him. The East London Magistrate’s Court heard the interracial couple shared a flat → Read More
Three jailed for 10 years on drugs charges
The East London Magistrate’s Court this week sentenced three drug dealers who sold drugs to an undercover police officer to 10 years’ imprisonment each. A fourth dealer was sentenced to a fine of R15000. Robert Faustini, 44, his son William Faustini, 28, and their runner Godfrey Magazine, 27, operated a drug den in a rented → Read More
Trial of murder-accused widow delayed 5 months
Bulelwa Ndudula, an East London woman accused of murdering her husband Sakhekile, will have to wait another five months for her trial because a judge was not allocated to hear her case this week. Sakhekile was the chief of staff in the office of social development MEC Nancy Sihlwayi. Police have not yet recovered the → Read More
Ex-CFO: IDZ tried selling state land
The East London High Court sitting in Vincent yesterday heard explosive details of how the Industrial Development Zone (ELIDZ) that shelled out millions on bonuses for its executives, and tried to sell government land to private companies to pay staff salaries and bills. This was revealed in evidence led by dismissed Chief Ffinancial Oofficer Babalwa → Read More
Four years for fatal accident
An unlicensed driver who caused the deaths of two children, including a member of the Hoërskool Grens cricket first team, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment in the East London Magistrate’s Court this week. This was despite Themba Kundulu, 38, pleading not guilty to two counts of culpable homicide, reckless and negligent driving, driving under → Read More
Killer father jailed for 30 years
An East London father, who shot dead his girlfriend and two children before turning the gun on himself twice last year, was this week sentenced to 56 years’ imprisonment. The sentence was handed down in the East London Regional Court by magistrate Deon Rossouw. Fezile Mjacu, 37, will however serve 30 years behind bars after → Read More
East London father gets 56 years for murder
East London father who shot dead his girlfriend and two children before turning the gun on himself twice last year, was this week sentenced to 56 years imprisonment. The sentence was handed down in the East London Regional Court by magistrate Deon Rossouw. Fezile Majacu, 37, however will only serve 30 years imprisonment after Rossouw → Read More
Widow ‘paid hitman with pension’
The Hawks yesterday told the Mdantsane Magistrate’s Court that a woman had used her dead husband’s pension fund and life policies to pay a hitman R150 000 for killing him on Valentine’s Day this year. The state’s case was outlined by Warrant Officer Vukile Konzani during the bail application of Nomqondiso Tembu, 50, who is → Read More
R3.3m award for victim of negligent nursing
A carpenter who developed bedsores while in a coma through being left unattended by nursing staff has been awarded R3.3-million by the East London High Court. Judge Bantubonke Tokota granted the order despite the Eastern Cape department of health saying all the necessary medical treatment had been administered to him. Philbert Njike, 44, was admitted → Read More
Case of wife’s death delayed: man allegedly buried wife under her bed
The murder case against a Breidbach man who allegedly killed his wife and buried her body in a shallow grave under her bed was yet again postponed in the King William’s Town Magistrate’s Court. Vernon Baartjies, 33, appeared before presiding magistrate Nkosinathi Mjekula, facing a charge of murder. Prosecutor Pamela Matinise told the court the → Read More
Principal in court for allegedly biting six-year-old
Joyful Noise creche principal Cindy Reely appeared in the King William’s Town Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. Reely is alleged to have bitten a six-year-old boy to give him “a taste of his own medicine” after he had bitten another boy in class. For the → Read More
Case of Breidbach murder accused postponed
The case against a Breidbach man accused of murdering his wife before burying her under her bed was again postponed in the King William’s Town Magistrate’s Court this afternoon. Vernon Baartjies appeared before presiding magistrate Nkosinathi Mjekula facing charges of murder. Prosecutor Pamela Matinise told the court the state was still waiting for a decision → Read More
Premier, officials summoned in fired IDZ CFO’s legal suit
The East London High Court has instructed premier Phumulo Masualle and members of his executive to give evidence on the dismissal of the East London Industrial Development Zone’s CFO. Ex-chief financial officer Babalwa Magongwa is suing the ELIDZ for R6-million for alleged breach of contract and unlawful dismissal for protected disclosure. She was appointed to → Read More
No bail for ‘tik cook’ accused with Vincent Heights link
Alleged meth (tik) “cook” Kingsley Obi Udeobi, 31, was denied bail in the East London Magistrate’s Court yesterday. He was allegedly found with 105kg of processed and unprocessed drugs worth R70-million last month. He was arrested in a Belgravia flat by members of the Hawks’ narcotics enforcement bureau. They allegedly also found him in possession → Read More
Family distraught at new trial delay
A series of technical difficulties saw the drawn-out culpable homicide trial of former Lukhanji mayor Nozibele Makanda again being postponed in the Cathcart Magistrate’s Court yesterday, this time to early next year. The trial was set down for two days – yesterday and today – but when the stenographer’s recording equipment malfunctioned, the earliest new → Read More