Daily Archives: June 4, 2014

Griekwastad teen in court


Johannesburg – Sentencing procedures against the young Griekwastad murderer will continue in the Northern Cape High Court on Wednesday.

The 17-year-old boy has been convicted of three murders and rape. On 27 March, the court found him guilty of the murders of Griekwastad farmer Deon Steenkamp, aged 44, his wife Christel, aged 43, and their daughter Marthella, aged 14. They were shot dead on their farm Naauwhoek on 6 April 2012.

He was also found guilty of raping the girl and lying to police. On Tuesday, a juvenile criminologist, Dr Eon Sonnekus, told the court the boy seemed to be made of good human material.

“The accused showed an overall good character and positive attributes for some 15 years and eight months before the crime,” Sonnekus said in mitigation of sentence.

“The accused still seems to be made of good human material.”

Sonnekus told the court the boy’s behaviour in his school life, sport activities and with his guardian family after the crimes were more in accordance with his social behaviour pattern, and the boy could be rehabilitated.
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Hashim brings some risks, but…


Cape Town – Once the backslapping phase dies down, newly-installed Proteas captain Hashim Amla faces probably his toughest assignment since his nervous introduction to Test cricket around a decade ago.
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Will Amcu accept state brokered deal?


It remains to be seen whether the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) will accept government’s settlement package aimed at ending the protracted strike at three of the world’s largest platinum producers.
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Prosecutor jailed for life for raping girl


Durban – A Newcastle Magistrate’s Court prosecutor has been jailed for life for raping a 13-year-old girl, the NPA in KwaZulu-Natal said on Tuesday.

Remmington Zamokuhle Ngema’s application for leave to appeal was postponed to August and he would remain in custody until then, said National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Natasha Ramkisson-Kara.

He raped the 13-year-old in October 2011 while she was in his care.

Ngema had pleaded not guilty to the charge, but was convicted by the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, sitting in Madadeni, in February.

“This sentence shows the zero-tolerance approach of the justice system to criminality,” KwaZulu-Natal director of public prosecutions Moipone Noko said.

“It should serve as a deterrent even to our own staff members, that all perpetrators of such heinous crimes will be held accountable.”

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