SJC 21 GRANTED LEAVE TO APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTION

Magistrate rules that law under which SJC activists were convicted could be unconstitutional Yesterday in the Cape Town Magistrates Court, Magistrate Fredericks granted leave to appeal for 10 SJC activists convicted earlier this year of contravening the Regulation of Gatherings Act (RGA). In September 2013 SJC activists had chained themselves outside the Civic Centre, the…