Crimen injuria
SAJBD satisfied with sentence given to man who posted antisemitic tweets
Matome Letsoalo pleaded guilty to posting threatening and antisemitic tweets in June 2018. Hewas sentenced to three years imprisonment.
Matome Letsoalo pleaded guilty to a charge of crimen injuria for threatening and antisemitic tweets posted in June 2018.
Ekurhuleni MMC for Community Safety Frans Mmoko said that he stood by officers who had opened a case of crimen injuria against a man who allegedly racially abused them in Springs.
Adam Catzavelos was convicted of crimen injuria after pleading guilty to making racists comments while on a beach in Greece.
Legal counsel for Catzavelos Lawley Shain said his client had suffered two criminal incidents prior to the incident in Greece.
His lawyer Lawley Shain told the court his client admitted to recording a video on a beach in Greece in which he used the k-word while celebrating the lack of black people around him.
On Tuesday morning, the National Director of Public Prosecutions thwarted his attempts to have the crimen injuria case thrown out.
The National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) dismissed Catzavelos' application to have his crimen injuria charge dropped.
Adam Catzavelos recorded a video of himself using the K-word while on holiday in Greece last year, gloating about the absence of black people on a beach.
Adam Catzavelos faces one count of crimen injuria for racial slurs he made in a video while on vacation in Greece in 2018.
Adam Catzavelos used the K-word to refer to black people while on holiday on a Greek island in 2018.
Momberg appeared in the Randburg Magistrates Court in Johannesburg this morning.
Calls to impose harsh prison sentences for verbal crimen injuria are often premised on the need to deter such behaviour.
Tumelo Ruele says he and his two friends were racially attacked at the Colony Arms in Randburg last week by two white men.
The man had allegedly referred to employees as 'baboons' in an email to Henque Waste company management in May 2017.
Fani Titi reportedly told the court that its extremely egregious for someone to call another the k-word as it portrays a level of danger.
Momberg’s lawyer Kingdom Onah says they are positive they will overturn both the conviction and sentence.
In 2016, Momberg was caught on camera in North Riding racially abusing a police officer who was trying to help her after she was involved in a smash-and-grab incident.
Past cases indicate that verbal crimen injuria is not that serious. But a landmark sentence in South Africa has changed that.