Dries Liebenberg
Reporter at South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)
SABC Radio News - Durban - Husband / Father. Any views expressed are not necessarily that of the SABC.
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1 week ago |
sabcnews.com | Dries Liebenberg
Former late African National Congress (ANC) President Chief Albert Luthuli’s daughter-in-law has described how the apartheid security police closely monitoring their home. Wilhelmina Luthuli testified in the re-opened inquest into Chief Luthuli’s death in 1967 at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday. She also testified that important evidence was not presented in the original inquest.
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1 week ago |
sabcnews.com | Dries Liebenberg
Testifying in the re-opened inquest into the death of ANC leader Inkosi Albert Luthuli in 1967, daughter-in-law Wilhelminah Luthuli has described his injuries to the Pietermaritzburg High Court. She has testified that the family never believed that he was struck by a train as the original inquest found. She has told the court some important evidence was never revealed in that inquest, saying she believes it was to cover up for the government’s involvement in Luthuli’s death.
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1 week ago |
sabcnews.com | Dries Liebenberg
The reopened inquest into the death of human rights lawyer, Griffiths Mxenge, has been adjourned to June 17 in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in KwaZulu-Natal. This is to allow members of the security police in the 1980s who are named in the case to obtain legal representation. Evidence leader, Adv. Siyabonga Ngcobo has told Judge Pieter Bezuidenhout that the former Vlakplaas commander, Dirk Coetzee and Joe Mamasela are among these witnesses.
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sabcnews.com | Dries Liebenberg
The African National Congress (ANC) Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri says the ANC and its allied organisations are heartened by the decision of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to reopen the inquests into the deaths of former President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli, who died under mysterious circumstances, and activist and lawyer Griffiths Mxenge. The two inquests are due to get under way in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.
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1 week ago |
sabcnews.com | Dries Liebenberg
French arms manufacturer Thales says it is unable to conduct a defence in the corruption case of former President Jacob Zuma. The High Court in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal will hear the case on the 24th of this month. The case relates to alleged fraud and corruption in a 1999 multi-billion-rand arms deal. The court is expected to rule on Zuma’s leave to appeal the dismissal of his application for the recusal of the lead prosecutor in the case.
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