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Dyakophu and Another v S (A20/2004) [2024] ZAWCHC 104 (22 April 2024)
High Court appeal upheld bail pending appeal for two convicted appellants, finding the magistrate wrongly focused on conviction merits instead of flight risk and interests of justice.
Matodzi v S (A10/2022) [2022] ZAGPJHC 152 (17 March 2022)
The court found that the appellant had not demonstrated a real prospect of success in his appeal against conviction or sentence. No application for leave to appeal against conviction was pending, and the time to petition the Supreme Court of Appeal had expired. The appellant failed to advance any substantive case that a non-custodial or sufficiently light sentence would likely be imposed on appeal. The applicable legal principles require more than a mere possibility; a real prospect must be shown. On the material before the court, no such prospect existed, and therefore the appeal against the…
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S v Matsitela and Others (78/2017) [2018] ZAFSHC 135 (13 September 2018)
The court convicted four accused in a copper-theft syndicate case, relying on cellphone data, witness testimony and circumstantial evidence.
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