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Mlota v S (A338/2023) [2025] ZAGPPHC 604; 2025 (2) SACR 197 (GP) (13 June 2025)
The High Court set aside a life sentence for rape and replaced it with 15 years after finding the State had not proved a domestic relationship.
G.D v N.B (HCAA26/2023) [2024] ZALMPPHC 51; 2025 (1) SACR 179 (LP) (20 May 2024)
The court found that the appellant's marriage to the respondent's sister established a domestic relationship by affinity under the Domestic Violence Act. The appellant's conduct—intimidation, controlling behaviour, psychological abuse, locking farm gates, denying access, and economic abuse—fell squarely within the definitions of domestic violence in the Act. The appellant's denials were not real, genuine, or bona fide and failed to create a material dispute of fact. The Magistrate correctly applied the Plascon-Evans principle, accepting the respondent's detailed allegations and supporting aff…
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