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South Africa's top court finds former president Jacob Zuma in contempt of court following his refusal to appear before a graft panel. SOUNDBITE
A parole board is expected to decide if South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius should be released from prison early, a decade after he killed his girlfriend, a lawyer for the victim's family says outside the correctional facility where the parole hearing was taking place. "We have been advised that there will be a decision later today." SOUNDBITE
A British banker jailed for life for the horrifying murder of two Indonesian women at his upscale Hong Kong apartment in a cocaine-fuelled rampage arrives at court to appeal his conviction. IMAGES
The Peace Palace, headquarters of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, Netherlands, as South Africa asks the top UN court to order an immediate halt to Israel's incursion in Rafah, describing it as a "genocidal" operation threatening the "very survival of Palestinians". IMAGES
Former South Africa President Jacob Zuma leaves Johannesburg's Constitutional court as it was hearing an appeal to have him declared ineligible to stand for office in a politically charged legal showdown set to raise tensions before the tightest election in decades. IMAGES
Rapist and murderer Thabo Bester and his alleged lover Nandipha Magudumana appear virtually at a court hearing in Bloemfontein, as their trial is postponed until the 20th of June 2023 for "further police investigations". Dubbed the "Facebook rapist", Bester was sentenced to life in prison in 2012. Last year, he broke out of jail and left a burnt corpse in his cell. He was arrested in April 2023 by Tanzanian police along with Magudumana, a celebrity doctor and social media influencer, who is suspected to have helped him escape from jail. IMAGES