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S v Manzana and Another (CC31/2024) [2024] ZAECMKHC 93 (14 August 2024)
Sentencing judgment in a murder and robbery case arising from farm housebreakings and a shooting death. The High Court imposed life imprisonment and concurrent terms.
Kamfer v S (A73/2024) [2024] ZAWCHC 256 (13 May 2024)
Criminal appeal dismissed: the High Court upheld four housebreaking convictions and a 20-year effective sentence, finding no material error in the trial court's assessment of accomplice evidence.
Marema v S (A317/2019) [2023] ZAGPPHC 1175 (13 September 2023)
Appeal against a conviction for housebreaking and theft succeeded because the appellant’s explanation was reasonably possibly true and the State’s evidence was too contradictory.
Mboya v S (CA&R 75/2022) [2022] ZAECMKHC 78 (18 October 2022)
Appeal against sentence dismissed. The High Court upheld a 15-year minimum sentence for robbery with aggravating circumstances and found no basis to interfere.
Skeyi and Another v S (A25/2021 SA 7/2021) [2021] ZAGPPHC 879 (22 December 2021)
Appeal against conviction for housebreaking and theft was dismissed, but the sentence was reduced from 15 years to 10 years and ordered to run concurrently.
Sibaya v S (A68/2019) [2021] ZAGPJHC 771 (6 December 2021)
The High Court upheld an appeal against a 12-year sentence for housebreaking and theft, reducing it to six years for disproportionality.
Gwama v S (CA&R52/2020) [2021] ZAECGHC 106 (25 November 2021)
Appeal against convictions and sentences for robbery with aggravating circumstances and housebreaking with intent to steal and theft was dismissed.
Willemse v S (A 80 / 2021) [2021] ZAWCHC 92; 2022 (1) SACR 43 (WCC) (11 May 2021)
Sentence appeal in a housebreaking and theft case: the High Court upheld the sentence on count 1 but altered count 2 to run half concurrently.
Mntungwa v S (AR11/2019) [2020] ZAKZPHC 21 (10 July 2020)
The High Court set aside a robbery conviction based on unreliable dock identification and substituted several housebreaking convictions with a section 36 competent verdict.
Seshoka v S (A152/2017) [2019] ZAGPJHC 479 (7 November 2019)
Appeal against a 15-year sentence for housebreaking and theft succeeded after the High Court found the sentence shockingly inappropriate and reduced it to 10 years.
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