17 000 appeals against firearm licences rejections and other brief reports
Publish date: 14 June 2005
Issue Number: 1356
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: Corruption
* The police have received more than 17 000 appeals so far against their rejection of applications for firearm licences. Director of the Communication division of the police, Phuti Setati, said that, from the time the appeal board had begun its activities up to the end of May, it had finalised 2 005 of the appeals. In 371 of the applications, the decision to refuse a licence was set aside. News24
* The first batch of Western Cape prisoners has been released from Pollsmoor prison as part of the government\'s remission of sentence programmes. IoL * SA oil and chemicals group Sasol and its three major trade unions have signed an historic safety charter that was aimed at improving safety at the group\'s local operations and achieving \'zero harm\'. Business Report * A Johannesburg housewife, Sabine Golaszinski, has obtained an interdict barring her domestic worker Malehu Wendy Motimele from harassing and intimidating her following a wage dispute. Sunday Times
