South Africa 2001
Death penalty and prisoners' rights · Archive since 1999
News on South Africa in 2001
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Addressing the UN World Conference Against Racism,...
Addressing the UN World Conference Against Racism, non-governmental organizations called for urgent action by member states to combat discrimination
- SEPTEMBER 4, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called on...
American civil rights leader Jesse Jackson called on the United States to follow the example of the African National Congress in South Africa, in getting the death penalty abolished
- SEPTEMBER 3, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Freedom Front (FF) called for the reinstallation...
The Freedom Front (FF) called for the reinstallation of the death penalty, saying the killings of white farmers in SA are politically motivated and often triggered by irresponsible comments by politicians
- AUGUST 1, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Four Zimbabwean men are to be extradited to Botswana...
Four Zimbabwean men are to be extradited to Botswana to face a murder charge, Northern Province police said
- JULY 27, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo...
The High Court in Botswana rejected an appeal by Lehlohonolo Bernard Kobedi, a South African man who had been sentenced to death for murdering a police officer in a shootout
- JULY 10, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
A Federal jury in New York sentenced Tanzanian Khalfan...
A Federal jury in New York sentenced Tanzanian Khalfan Khamis Mohamed to life without parole for the August 1998 bombing of the U
- JULY 2, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The African Christian Democratic Party voted against...
The African Christian Democratic Party voted against the proposed ratification of the Optional Second Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- JUNE 6, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in...
The Swaziland Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in the case of Bongani Mkhwanazi, a South African sentenced to death for murder
- MAY 28, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The Constitutional Court on the case of Khalfan Mohamed,...
The Constitutional Court on the case of Khalfan Mohamed, an alleged embassy bomber, ruled that South African government should have sought protection from the death penalty for alleged embassy bomber Mohamed before handing him to the FBI for trial in Amer
- APRIL 25, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
South Africa was a cosponsor and voted in favour of...
South Africa was a cosponsor and voted in favour of the resolution on the death penalty approved by the UN Commission on Human Rights on April 25, 2001
- APRIL 21, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Sebastian Bridges, a South African citizen, 37, was...
Sebastian Bridges, a South African citizen, 37, was executed by lethal injection in Nevada (USA)
- APRIL 6, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Following Marietta Bosch, the South african woman,...
Following Marietta Bosch, the South african woman, executed in Botswana on March 31 for murder, the South Africa's National Association of Democratic Lawyers said Botswanan President Festus Mogae should commute the sentences of all prisoners in his countr
- APRIL 2, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The South African Foreign Ministry declared that it...
The South African Foreign Ministry declared that it was informed of Marietta Bosch's execution only two days after the event
- APRIL 2, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Lawyers for South African Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch,...
Lawyers for South African Mariette Sonjaleen Bosch, 50, said the execution was carried out with indecent haste and with callous disregard for Bosch's life and her constitutional rights
- MARCH 29, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Feelings ran high in the North West town of Marikana...
Feelings ran high in the North West town of Marikana where the community met Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete and Agri SA president Japie Grobler after two farm murders in the area on March 27
- MARCH 27, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
According to lawyers acting for President Thabo Mbeki,...
According to lawyers acting for President Thabo Mbeki, South African courts have no power to order the government to request that an alleged Muslim bomber on trial in the United States not be given a death sentence
- MARCH 27, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
A second South African is facing murder charges in...
A second South African is facing murder charges in Botswana and possibly the gallows if convicted
- MARCH 5, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
A large group of women, members of the Phoenix community...
A large group of women, members of the Phoenix community converged on the Verulam Regional Court, north of Durban and staged a placard protest in front of the court entrance morning while three suspects appeared in connection with March 1 gang rape of a s
- FEBRUARY 13, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
South African Head of Communication in the Foreign...
South African Head of Communication in the Foreign Affairs Unit Ronnie Mamoepa, said that President Thabo Mbeki after being approached by the family of death row inmate Marietta Bosch, "is applying his mind and will and when necessary take the right steps
- FEBRUARY 11, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
President Mbeki would consider a request by the South...
President Mbeki would consider a request by the South African Human Rights Commission to intervene on behalf of South African Mariette Bosch, who is on death row [for murder] in Botswana, presidential aide Bheki Khumalo said
- FEBRUARY 2, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Jody Kollapen, commissioner of the South African Human...
Jody Kollapen, commissioner of the South African Human Rights Commission, said that calls for the reintroduction of the death penalty were futile from a legal and political point of view, nor was such a penalty a proven solution to crime
- FEBRUARY 1, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
The South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human...
The South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights send a letter with an appeal to Botswana President Mogae, to commute the death penalty imposed on Mariette Bosch to life imprisonment
- JANUARY 29, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
January 29, 20001: about 100 white farmers accompanied...
January 29, 20001: about 100 white farmers accompanied by their children protested outside the Koster Magistrate's Court in the North West where Lazarus Raseroka and Daphnie Mogaswane, two men who allegedly killed a farmer were appearing
- JANUARY 1, 2001South AfricaDEATH PENALTY
Under white minority rule, the apartheid-era National...
Under white minority rule, the apartheid-era National Party, the New National Party's (NNP) predecessor, executed an average of about 100 people a year in the 1980s, peaking at 187 in 1987 when 21 people were hanged in a single week at Pretoria's notoriou