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Carl Niehaus plans to sue the State, NPA for wrongful and malicious prosecution
Carl Niehaus instructed his lawyer Nthabiseng Mokoena to file a discharge application in terms of Section 174 of the criminal procedure act last month.
Chair of the peace and stability sub-committee, David Mahlobo, confirmed that it would sit from Thursday to Saturday.
They are among the 53 vets who allegedly held Defence Minister Thandi Modise, Presidency Minister Mondli Gungubele and Deputy Minister Thabang Makwetla hostage last week.
Scores of police were deployed to St George’s hotel outside Pretoria as a meeting between the combatants and the government ministers deteriorated into a shouting match.
Margaret Holloway is recovering at Helen Joseph Hospital, but doctors have told her the bullet lodged in her leg would have to stay there for the rest of her life because it was too risky to remove it.
Members of the now-defunct MKMVA were seen and heard firing off guns in honour of Kebby Maphatsoe, who died of heart failure last week. An old age home resident was hit by a stray bullet fired from the funeral.
The disbanded Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association's president's funeral was held on Sunday at the West Park Cemetery in Johannesburg.
Kebby Maphatsoe was laid to rest at the Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg on Sunday.
It's understood that MKMVA head Kebby Maphotsoe had specifically asked for certain ANC members to speak at his funeral.
African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President David Mabuza conceded that the ANC was facing crippling problems and he's called for unity in honour of the late Kebby Maphatsoe.
The former deputy minister of defence and military veterans and head of the now-disbanded Umkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans' Association has been hailed for his courageous contribution to democracy.
The leader of the African National Congress (ANC)'s disbanded uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) died at his home in Meyersdal on Tuesday.
The 58-year-old died in his sleep at his Joburg home on Tuesday.
The MKMVA’s rise to prominence was largely linked to former President Jacob Zuma’s dominance and Maphatsoe was an avid supporter of Zuma until his final days.
Maphatsoe served as Deputy Minister of Defence from 2014 to 2019.
Spokesperson of the already disbanded uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association (MKMVA), Carl Niehaus, insists that the actions he has been suspended for from the African National Congress (ANC) were part of the collective and not just his own doing.
A small group of people dressed in uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) uniform have blocked a police vehicle trying to make its way into former President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead.
The party’s national executive committee (NEC), which held a special meeting on Monday, said that inflammatory speeches made by Carl Niehaus over the weekend while dressed in ANC regalia had brought the organisation into disrepute.