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.
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Matome Letsoalo gets 3-year suspended sentence for antisemitic comments
Matome Letsoalo pleaded guilty to a charge of crimen injuria for threatening and antisemitic tweets posted in June 2018.
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Mmoko backs EMPD officers' crimen injuria case against aggressive motorist
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.
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Adam Catzavelos back in court for sentencing over racist comments
Adam Catzavelos was convicted of crimen injuria after pleading guilty to making racists comments while on a beach in Greece.
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Adam Catzavelos insists he is not a racist
Legal counsel for Catzavelos Lawley Shain said his client had suffered two criminal incidents prior to the incident in Greece.
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Adam Catzavelos pleads guilty to crimen injuria
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.
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Adam Catzavelos seeking plea bargain over crimen injuria case
On Tuesday morning, the National Director of Public Prosecutions thwarted his attempts to have the crimen injuria case thrown out.
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Racist Adam Catzavelos loses bid to have crimen injuria case dropped
The National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) dismissed Catzavelos' application to have his crimen injuria charge dropped.
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NDPP set to make decision on whether to drop Adam Catzavelos case
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.
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Crimen injuria case against racist Adam Catzavelos postponed
Adam Catzavelos faces one count of crimen injuria for racial slurs he made in a video while on vacation in Greece in 2018.
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Adam Catzavelos to appear in court over racist utterances
Adam Catzavelos used the K-word to refer to black people while on holiday on a Greek island in 2018.
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Vicki Momberg appeal case postponed to next year
Momberg appeared in the Randburg Magistrates Court in Johannesburg this morning.
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[OPINION] SA law needs a zero-tolerance approach to racist utterances
Calls to impose harsh prison sentences for verbal crimen injuria are often premised on the need to deter such behaviour.
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Music producer opens case of crimen injuria after alleged racist incident
Tumelo Ruele says he and his two friends were racially attacked at the Colony Arms in Randburg last week by two white men.
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Crimen injuria case opened against George employee for alleged racial slur
The man had allegedly referred to employees as 'baboons' in an email to Henque Waste company management in May 2017.
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Investec chairperson called k-word, feared for safety, court hears
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.
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Vicki Momberg's appeal bid postponed to next week
Momberg’s lawyer Kingdom Onah says they are positive they will overturn both the conviction and sentence.
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Vicki Momberg in court to fight 2-year jail 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.
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[ANALYSIS] Jail time for woman using racist slur sets new precedent
Past cases indicate that verbal crimen injuria is not that serious. But a landmark sentence in South Africa has changed that.
