The novel coronavirus disease pandemic or as we know it better, COVID-19, has ravaged society on a global scale. For the uninitiated, is caused by particular virus- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It seldom that have raging brought with itself such humongous scale of damage and every single front human society, be medical, economic, social just about anything. With...

This analysis assesses the ruling in case of S v Paulse 2022 (2) SACR 451 (WCC) and examines possibility an accused entering a guilty plea subsequently being convicted for offenses under sec. 4(b) Drugs Drug Trafficking Act 140 1992 (DDTA), even when State presents no supporting evidence such conviction. According to Criminal Procedure 51 1977 (referred as “CPA”), court has authority convict wh...