Makompo Legal

12/10/2017

Ahmed Timol didn't commit su***de, he was killed. High Court ruled earlier today.

28/09/2017

Brickz sentencing case currently on at Roodepoort Magistrate Court.

06/09/2017

Definition of Theft.

Unlawful, Intentional, Appropriation of another's property without their consent.

NSFAS 14million saga, the student isn't guilty!

06/09/2017

Definition of Theft:

Unlawful, Intentional, Appropriation of another's property without their consent.

Is the WSU 14million student guilty?

30/08/2017

Thank you very much to everyone who has been supporting us since we started operation. Your continuous support means a lot to Us and it is exceedingly appreciated.

We thank and love you all...

Sincerely yours,

Makompo Legal
Ref: Adv. Olebile Makompo
Advocate of the High Court.

09/02/2016

How are we expected to transform the legal system in our country and further empower black lawyers when all lawyers today representing DA, EFF and Jacob Zuma are all white!

Is this an indication that we still have a long way to go as a country in our attempts to achieve total transmogrification of the legal system which is still predominantly white despite the best legal minds we have from other races in particular BLACK!

cc: Ezra Letsoalo, Mothusi Castro Tsineng, Olebile Makompo

03/12/2015

The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that Oscar Pistorius should have foreseen the deadly impact his four bullets would have in a small bathroom.

“He fired four shots through the door and he never offered an acceptable explanation… he fired not one, but four shots… that is exactly what the accused did,” said Justice Eric Leach.

“I have no doubt that in firing the fatal shots, the accused… did foresee that whoever was behind that toilet door might die.”

He is guilty of murder and the matter is referred back to trial court to decide sentencing.

Leach told a packed court it was a unanimous judgment that he should be found guilty of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

He described the High Court ruling finding Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide as a “fundamental error”.

“The trial misdirected itself as to the appropriate issue,” said Leach.

He said the trial court made an error in law in applying the principles of dolus eventualis (perpetrators forseeing the risk of death occurring but nevertheless proceeds with the act).

Turning to the circumstantial evidence, Leach said it was crucial evidence in the trial and could not be ignored, including testimony by the police’s ballistics expert Chris Mangena.

“There had effectively been nowhere for the deceased to hide.”
It was in the interest of justice to set aside the conviction of culpable homicide on count 1.

The SCA’s ruling comes almost three years after Pistorius shot dead Steenkamp, later stating he mistook her for an intruder. He fired four shots into the bathroom door of his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day in 2013.

Indeed there is justice in South Africa.

19/10/2015

01/10/2015

King Dalinyebo to spent 12 years in prison, after the court dismissed his appeal. The court has even ordered him to present himself to prison authorities in 48 hours.

Are we all equal before the law!

17/09/2015

Oscar Pistorious claims he doesn't have money to fund his appeal case!

08/07/2015

After Hours Bail
On a regular basis we are contracted by members of the public who wish to ascertain whether bail can be granted after hours at a police station. The following should always be kept in mind when the issue of after hours bail is considered.
What is the charge for which you have been arrested?
You can only get bail for offences listed in specific schedules of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977. Should you be arrested for offences listed in Schedule 5 or 6 of the Act, you cannot get bail after hours. You can however still get bail in court, but not over the course of weekend i.e. after hours.
For offences listed in schedule 5 and 6 of the Criminal Procedures Act, the right to after-hours bail has been retracted and the individual cannot get bail after hours and has to wait for his first appearance at Court when a formal application for bail can be lodged. Schedule 5 and 6 offences include offences of theft and fraud where the value is in excess of R500 000.00, murder, r**e and robbery, to name but a few. Also if the individual was previously arrested for an offence and was granted bail prior to the current matter for which he has been arrested for now, he cannot get bail after hours either.
For certain offences listed in Schedule 7, the investigating officer concerned cannot grant bail but a prosecutor from the Director of Public Prosecutions, who is usually on standby in the specific district over a weekend, has to attend the police station in order to grant bail. In those offences the police official or the officer in the charge office has got no right to grant bail except when the prosecutor so ordered. In practice however the prosecutor is always guided by the attitude of the investigating officer and would never grant bail unless the investigating officer consents thereto.
Each Magistrates Court has prosecutors specifically designated to be on standby and those numbers are usually available at the police stations for bail applications. The offences resorting in this category are fraud and theft where the amount is less than R20 000.00, robbery in circumstances where it is not aggravated and where the amount also is less than R20 000.00, arson, culpable homicide or assault involving the infliction of grievous (serious) bodily harm.
Many of the minor offences like driving under the influence of alcohol, being found in possession of a very small quantity of drugs and shoplifting, the police have authority in terms of Section 59 of the Criminal Procedure Act to grant bail at the police station without the assistance of a prosecutor. In those instances a person above the rank of Sergeant i.e. Inspector and higher, has to grant the bail and the bail money will be deposited at the police station.
Bail money will be refunded to the person who deposited the bail money, provided that the accused adhered to his condition of bail and he/she attended court on each and every occasion.
Should you require any of our legal services please don't hesitate to contact us on 083 923 9722/ 061 086 1749 for more assistance.
Makompo Legal

06/07/2015

We wonder why the Department of Justice and Constitutional Affairs does not offer bursaries to young people whom aspire to study Law (LLB), most of bursaries for this field are offered only by the private sector and since capital only trains its future slaves, access to such financial aid is not decentralised.

Department of Health and Higher Education offers bursaries to aspirant nurses and educators respectively, but aspirant lawyers, prosecutors and magistrates niks!

We demand bursaries for aspirant LLB students...