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File. Advocate Malesela Teffo at the Pretoria High Court for the Senzo Meyiwa trial. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN.

Pretoria high court

Presiding judge in Meyiwa trial hits back at witchcraft allegations

By Kgomotso Modise

Last month, Advocate Malesela Teffo accused Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela of trying to bewitch him so that he cannot continue with the trial.

  • FILE: Former South African President Jacob Zuma removes his eyeglasses as he addresses the media at his home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal on 4 July 2021. Picture: Emmanuel Croset/AFP

    Battle lines drawn as Zuma medical parole matter heads to SCA

    This is on the back of legal challenges from the DA, the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) and AfriForum.

    33 days ago
  • Advocate Malesela Teffo at the Pretoria High Court for the Senzo Meyiwa trial. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN.

    Meyiwa trial: Presidency disputes Teffo’s ‘mischievous’ claims against Ramaphosa

    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.

    33 days ago
  • Advocate Malesela Teffo at the Pretoria High Court for the Senzo Meyiwa trial. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN.

    Advocate Malesela Teffo withdraws as counsel in Senzo Meyiwa murder trial

    He said he could not take the harassment he was receiving from the State and the court.

    35 days ago
  • Advocate Malesela Teffo at the Pretoria High Court for the Senzo Meyiwa trial. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN.

    Senzo Meyiwa murder trial: Pretoria High Court to hear way forward

    The trial started almost four months ago and only one state witness has taken the stand.

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    Court to hear landmark case on use of corporal punishment by teachers

    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.

    63 days ago
  • FILE: The men accused of murdering Senzo Meyiwa appeared in the Pretoria High Court on 31 May 2022. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News

    Senzo Meyiwa murder trial: Court to hear about second docket from defence

    Five men are standing trial for the 2014 crime.

    64 days ago
  • State witness Thabo Mosia with the Defence's Malaselo Teffo. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News.

    Senzo Meyiwa: NPA made opposing decisions to prosecute 2 groups of suspects

    The matter returned to the court on Wednesday morning where five men are standing trial.

    69 days ago
  • State witness Thabo Mosia with the Defence's Malaselo Teffo. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News.

    Meyiwa trial: Defence pokes holes in forensic officer’s processing of evidence

    The State’s first witness sergeant Thabo Mosia has been testifying in court for three weeks.

    69 days ago
  • Sergeant Thabo Mosia was the first State witness to give testimony in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial in the Pretoria High Court on 26 April 2022. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News

    Senzo Meyiwa: State's first witness to face grilling over his qualifications

    Sergeant Thabo Mosia is back on the witness stand on Tuesday morning for further cross-examination.

    70 days ago
  • The accused in the murder of footballer Senzo Meyiwa in the Pretoria High Court on 25 April 2022. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News

    Court hears how Senzo Meyiwa’s murder scene was tampered with

    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.

    70 days ago
  • Advocate Malesela Teffo appears in the Hillbrow Magistrate's Court on 29 April 2022. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News

    Adv Teffo accuses police of using apartheid tactics to solicit confessions

    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.

    71 days ago
  • The accused in the murder of footballer Senzo Meyiwa in the Pretoria High Court on 25 April 2022. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News

    Senzo Meyiwa murder trial resumes in court on Monday

    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.

    78 days ago
  • A screengrab of Advocate Malesela Teffo (foreground, left) being arrested in the Pretoria High Court on 28 April 2022.

    Advocate's arrest during Senzo Meyiwa murder trial police intimidation - lawyer

    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.

    109 days ago
  • Sergeant Thabo Mosia was the first State witness to give testimony in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial in the Pretoria High Court on 26 April 2022. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News

    Defence lawyer in Senzo Meyiwa murder case arrested

    Advocate Malesela Teffo was taken into custody in the Pretoria High Court with the proceedings now adjourned.

    110 days ago
  • FILE: This means that the Turkish company is allowed to supply the country with electricity from three power ships. Picture: © Warongdech Thaiwatcharamas/ 123rf.com

    Outa seeks to set aside Nersa's decision to award Turkish company licences

    Nersa granted Karpowership three generation permits in September, a decision that Outa said was irrational, unreasonable, and taken without regard to relevant considerations.

    110 days ago
  • Three of the five accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder in the Pretoria High Court on 11 April 2022. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/Eyewitness News

    Pistol or revolver? Court focuses on the kind of gun used to murder Senzo Meyiwa

    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.

    110 days ago
  • A collage of the families of the victims of the Life Esidimeni tragedy with pictures of the loved ones that they lost. Picture: @LifeEsidimeni/Twitter

    Male & female patients mixed together during Esidimeni move, court hears

    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.

    210 days ago
  • FILE: Former President Jacob Zuma at the state capture commission on 19 July 2019. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    AfriForum to oppose Jacob Zuma’s medical parole ruling appeal

    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.

    239 days ago
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