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JUDGE MASIPA GOT IT RIGHT: Oscar Pistorius and the intention to kill

Cambridge, Massachusetts---Yesterday Judge Masipa, sitting at the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, handed down part of her much-anticipated judgment in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. To much public dismay, she held that the State failed to prove...

September 12, 2014  By Brad Cibane   Posted In  Analysis  Criminal Law  Featured 
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South Africa: Calling people “kaffirs” is a crime!

CASE ALERT: Prinsloo v The State [2014] ZASCA 96 (Supreme Court of Appeals) Editor's note: The word 'kaffir' is a racial slur. It is a South African equivalent of the similarly offensive 'nigger'. On 15 July 2014 the Supreme Court of Appeals (SCA),...

July 17, 2014  By Brad Cibane   Posted In  Criminal Law 
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