South Africa: Beefed Up Courts Tackle Mine Violence

Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe has beefed up local court capacity to speed up the hearing of cases related to violence on the mines in South Africa's North West province.

Radebe has annexed the magisterial districts of Brits, Mankwe and Rustenburg to the Bafokeng magisterial districts to deal with such cases until the backlog has normalised in the province, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said this week.

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