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FOREIGN Affairs Minister Lejone Mpotjoane (Pictured) has dispatched some officials from his ministry to investigate the violence that broke out against Basotho illegal immigrants in Orkney, South Africa, last week.

A Chinese man and two police constables are behind bars for abducting a South African man and stealing his truck together with its cargo worth millions.

AN amendment that can potentially ‘damage’, ‘emasculate’, ‘destroy’, ‘change’ or alter the basic structure of the constitution should be judiciously struck off. This is according to the Court of Appeal judge, Justice Phillip Musonda, in a majority judgement striking down the ninth amendment to the constitution. Justice Musonda agreed with the court’s president, Justice Kananelo …

IN a dissenting judgement, the Court of Appeal’s Justice Van Der Westhuizen says the ninth amendment did not violate the basic structure of the constitution and should therefore not have been struck down by the Constitutional Court. Justice Van Der Westhuizen was dissenting to the Court of Appeal judgement that dismissed the opposition’s appeal against …

IN concurring with the Court of Appeal’s majority judgement, Justice Petrus Damaseb said he was concerned that the Ninth Amendment gives the MPs too much power. Justice Damaseb said he supported striking down the amendment because it meant that once the MPs have made their decision to oust a sitting prime minister, “both he and …

THE Court of Appeal has ruled that the Ninth Amendment “seriously undermined the principles of democracy” and violates the basic structure of the constitution. The amendment, which removed the prime minister’s power to advise the king to dissolve parliament in the face of a vote of no confidence, was passed during the last parliament. Its …