Mlenga v S (A08/2019) [2019] ZAFSHC 132 (1 August 2019)

SUMMARY This case deals with an application for leave to appeal a sentence handed down by the Welkom Regional Magistrates Court. The facts of the case are as follows:   Facts On or about 25 January 2015, the Appellant (Mr. Mlenga) and his two co-accused were relaxing outside their rented premises in Welkom. They were
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Nqayi v The State (C.A&R 16/2018) [2018] ZAECBHC 2 (1 June 2018)

SUMMARY The Appellant was charged and sentenced to undergo 36 months imprisonment for assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm for hitting the Complainant in the eye causing him to lose his eye. The Magistrate granted the appellant leave to appeal his conviction and sentence, however, the appellant was refused bail pending the appeal.
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JOUBERT V S (642/2016) [2017] ZASCA 3; 2017 (1) SACR 497 (SCA) (3 MARCH 2017))

BACKGROUND The Appellant, an accountant by profession, was convicted in the Nelspruit Regional Court on 20 counts of fraud relating to false VAT claims made to the South African Revenue Service and was subsequently sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, wholly suspended on certain conditions for a period of five years. The Appellant petitioned the Gauteng
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S v Nyembezi (362/2017) [2018] ZAGPPHC 203 (11 April 2018)

SUMMARY Review proceedings were launched in the Gauteng Local Division, Johannesburg, before Acting Judge Phahlane, based on a number of procedural irregularities which occurred during a criminal trial, which subsequently resulted in a conviction and the imposition of a prison sentence. On 1 November 2017, in the Oberholzer Magistrate’s Court, Thuso Nyembezi (“the accused”) was,
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