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Pardon me, Mr President (05.03.10)

The exercise of the presidential pardon promises to be a heavily contested political arena. For some time rumours have circulated about the possible pardon of Schabir Shaik and Eugene de Kock, whose very ...

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Shacks and shopping malls divide South Africa's murder capital (03.03.10)

DURBAN — Walter Masondo stands in his driveway, his grandchildren dashing around his legs, watching a steamroller lay asphalt at a township stadium remodeled as a training venue for the World Cup. The ...

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Community members start talking at the first Diepsloot community conversation

Social cohesion community conversation encourages community members to engage with one another. March 2, 2010 –The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) held its first Diepsloot township community conversation, after the xenophobic violence that rocked the ...

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Shacks and shopping malls divide South Africa's murder capital (01.03.10)

Walter Masondo stands in his driveway, his grandchildren dashing around his legs, watching a steamroller lay asphalt at a township stadium remodelled as a training venue for the football World Cup in ...

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SA Concourt upholds decision on pardons (25.02.10)

JOHANNESBURG – The South African Constitutional Court yesterday upheld a high court decision interdicting the president from granting pardons to perpetrators of political violence without first consulting victims. Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) member ...

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Victims have say in 'political' pardons (24.02.10)

By Franny Rabkin BEFORE President Jacob Zuma can consider whether to pardon people convicted of “politically motivated” crimes , he would have to hear from the victims of the crimes, the Constitutional ...

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Albutt v Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and Others…(24.02.10)

(CCT 54/09) [2010] ZACC 4 This case concerns the power of the President to grant pardon under section 84(2)(j) of the Constitution to people who claim that they were convicted of offences which ...

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