The application by the State for leave to appeal against Oscar Pistorius’ six-year jail sentence will be heard next week, and the Pistorius legal team is ready to battle.
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The application by the State for leave to appeal against Oscar Pistorius’ six-year jail sentence will be heard next week, and the Pistorius legal team is ready to battle.
Full Article here: News Gauteng Category RSS
My ethos is espoused in the words of Nelson Mandela: “I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the idea of a democratic and free society. If need be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
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Pretoria History
Pretoria was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers, who named it after his father Andries Pretorius and chose a spot on the banks of the Apies rivier (Afrikaans for “Monkeys river”) to be the new capital of the South African Republic.
It became the capital of the South African Republic in 1860.
The founding of Pretoria as the capital of the South African Republic can be seen as marking the end of the Boers’ settlement movements of the Great Trek.
During the First Boer War, the city was besieged by Republican forces in December 1880 and March 1881.