Court
Crime activists and court watchers together with the families of victims are calling for shorter trials as court rolls see cases running for more than a decade.
This month, the family of 44-year-old Miscah Fakier of Hout Bay remained hopeful that justice will finally be served after six years, when the men accused of murdering her will face judgment at the Wynberg Regional Court.
Fakier’s murder trial is one of several running for years on court rolls across the province, seeing various delays due to the backlog of evidence, absenteeism of judicial staff, prisoners and the accused, the changing of
