Lunchtime news: Dewani to leave SA
THERE is a huge media contingent, as well as representatives of the British High Commission at the Cape Town International Airport where British citizen Shrien Dewani is expected to fly out of South Africa back to London.
He was acquitted in the Western Cape High Court on Monday, with a ruling that the State could not prove that Dewani was involved in planning the 2010 murder of his wife, Anni.
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THE High Court in Pretoria will rule tomorrow on the State's application for leave to appeal the conviction and sentence of Oscar Pistorius.
The Paralympian's advocate Barry Roux told Judge Thokozile Masipa that the State's application holds no water as the law makes it clear you cannot appeal against factual findings.
“Proven facts are facts found by the courts for purposes of the judgement. It’s not weather there is a possibility that another court may find that. That is the limitation. It is an attempt to change the factual findings,” he explained.
Pistorius is spending his 49th day in a Kgosi Mampuru jail cell following his five year sentence for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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AN emotional Yolande Korkie completed her journey that started on 16 January 2014, when she addressed her first press conference and made what was then an international appeal for the release of her husband Pierre Korkie who was then still being held by Al-Qaeda in Yemen.
On Tuesday Yolande was back at the Gift of the Givers logistics centre in Johannesburg hours after Pierre's body landed back in South Africa and was handed over to his family.
His family was preparing to welcome him home alive with reports that he was killed in Yemen a day before he was supposed to be released.
His wife expressed how it felt receiving his body on Tuesday morning.
“This morning at the airforce base was very emotional for us. We visualised it differently. But we have intense relief that he has come back, that he has been returned to us. This is Gods will,” she said
Yolande has asked to view her husband's body in isolation this afternoon.
The last time she saw him was before her release in January.
“The last words that I heard from Pierre was I love you and tell the children I love them,” she said
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