The approach to the Constitutional Court follows a judgment by the Supreme Court of Appeal in April. In that judgment, the majority of the court ruled that two men held in custody from May 2005 until February 2006 — when a murder charge against them was withdrawn — canThe court said they could not sue the minister for damages after they appeared in court on June 14.
The high court in Pretoria had found that the men's arrest and detention was lawful and ordered that the minister pay R90,000 to Mahlangu and R50,000 to Mtsweni. In their heads of argument filed with the Constitutional Court this month, lawyers for Mahlangu and the estate of Mtsweni asked the court to order that the minister of police pay R490,000 to Mahlangu and R450,000 to the executor of Mtsweni's estate.
All they deserve is lost wages if they were even gainfully employed. If not, then they deserve nothing but must pay the state for freely feeding them with my tax money.
Death penalty activists where you at? Constitutional hustlers
Makes legal sense though morally well that’s another issue all together
Imagine if we had a 'Death penalty' in SA.
WTF😭
He must get millions and a public and written apology
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