Pretoria high court
Presiding judge in Meyiwa trial hits back at witchcraft allegations
Last month, Advocate Malesela Teffo accused Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela of trying to bewitch him so that he cannot continue with the trial.
This is on the back of legal challenges from the DA, the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) and AfriForum.
Teffo, who withdrew as the legal representative for four of the men accused of killing Senzo Meyiwa, has claimed that the president was behind his dramatic arrest in April.
He said he could not take the harassment he was receiving from the State and the court.
The trial started almost four months ago and only one state witness has taken the stand.
The Centre for Child Law, is taking the South African Council of Educators to court in a bid to secure harsher sanctions for two primary teachers who received what the organisations describe as “shockingly lenient” sanctions after pleading guilty to using corporal punishment in class.
Five men are standing trial for the 2014 crime.
The matter returned to the court on Wednesday morning where five men are standing trial.
The State’s first witness sergeant Thabo Mosia has been testifying in court for three weeks.
Sergeant Thabo Mosia is back on the witness stand on Tuesday morning for further cross-examination.
During her crime examination, advocate Zandile Mshololo read three statements to the court from neighbours who claim to have arrived on the scene before the police.
Advocate Malesela Teffo is of the view that if he addresses the confessions made by two of the accused, and he manages to discredit them the State’s entire case will collapse.
The trial of the five suspects accused of murdering the former Bafana Bafana captain took a month’s break after the first witness took the stand.
Advocate Malesela Teffo, who is the lawyer for four of the men accused of the Bafana Bafana captain’s murder, was arrested on Thursday in the Pretoria High Court.
Advocate Malesela Teffo was taken into custody in the Pretoria High Court with the proceedings now adjourned.
Nersa granted Karpowership three generation permits in September, a decision that Outa said was irrational, unreasonable, and taken without regard to relevant considerations.
Sergeant Thabo Mosia has been testifying on the 2014 murder of the Bafana Bafana captain in Vosloorus at the home of his girlfriend Kelly Khumalo.
Former Gauteng senior health official Hannah Jacobus was the sixth witness to take the stand, being cross-examined by the state's Advocate Willem Pienaar.
The Pretoria High Court ruled that former President Jacob Zuma's release on medical parole was unlawful and that he should return to jail to serve the remainder of his 15 months sentence.