S v Steyn en Andere

JurisdictionSouth Africa
JudgeVos R
Judgment Date12 May 1981
Citation1981 (3) SA 1050 (C)
Hearing Date12 May 1981
CourtCape Provincial Division

Vos R:

Voor die Hof is 'n vraag wat spruit uit 'n verklaring wat 'n beskuldigde na bewering gemaak het. Beskuldigde nr 2, volgens getuienis E van mnr Hilbrands, het 'n verklaring voor hom afgelê, 'n sogenaamde onderhoudsverklaring. Dit bevat sekere erkennings. Daar was 'n beswaar wat gebaseer was op twee bene in verband met die toelaatbaarheid, naamlik, in die eerste plek, dat dit glad nie gemaak is deur hom nie en, in die tweede F plek, dat hy onbehoorlik beïnvloed is om dit te maak. Na 'n binneverhoor sonder die assessore het ek as Regter daardie verklaring toegelaat.

Nou dit is 'n regsrël dat daardie bevinding van my is in 'n sekere sin nie finaal nie want as ek as Regter op enige stadium tot ander insigte kom dan moet ek my vorige beslissing verander.

Vos R

Mnr Mohamed het daarop gewys dat, toe mnr Hilbrands by die tweede geleentheid voor die volle Hof getuig het, dit uitgekom het by wyse van A sekere erkennings wat hy gemaak het in kruisverhoor dat hy al betrokke was by aanrandings en dit het sover gegaan dat in een geval daar 'n aanklagte ontstaan het. Gevolglik was mnr Mohamed se betoog dat die volle Hof nou weer 'n soort van binneverhoor moet hou om die toelaatbaarheid van daardie verklaring van beskuldigde nr 2 weer te toets. Met ander woorde, 'n toets B deur die volle Hof, van 'n vraag wat reeds getoets is. En die vraag wat nou ontstaan is 'n heel eenvoudige en enge vraag, naamlik of die toets nou uitgevoer moet word al dan of die toets op die finale stadium van getuienislewering in die normale loop van sake deur beskuldigde nr 2 uitgevoer moet word.

C Dit lyk vir my dat die posisie soos volg is. Die reël wat ek reeds genoem het is dat die Regter op enige stadium tot ander insigte kan kom. Ek kan miskien net die gesag daarvoor aanhaal. Dit is die saak van R v Melozani 1952 (3) SA 639 (A)...

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  • Director of Public Prosecutions, Transvaal v Viljoen
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...en Andere 1998 (2) SACR 321 (T) S v Smile 1998 (1) SACR 688 (SCA) E S v Soci 1998 (2) SACR 275 (E) (1998 (3) BCLR 376) S v Steyn 1981 (3) SA 1050 (C) S v Tshabalala 1999 (1) SACR 412 (C) ([1999] 1 All SA 677) S v Tshidiso 2002 (1) SACR 207 (W) S v Van den Berg 1996 (1) SACR 19 (Nm) (1995 (4......
  • S v Ramgobin and Others
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    ...led at the trial can, if he considers it appropriate, reverse his earlier decision. That was the view taken in S v Steyn en Andere 1981 (3) SA 1050 (C). The correctness of this view was doubted in S v Leepile and Others (2) 1986 (2) SA 346 (W) at 350H - J. In my view, however, the Court wou......
  • S v Mphalele and Another
    • South Africa
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    ...Hof in ieder geval geen bewyswaarde aan die verklaring geheg het nie of moes dit geheel en al uitgesluit gewees het. S v Steyn en Andere 1981 (3) SA 1050; S v Mkwanazi 1966 (1) SA te 742E - 743E; R v Melozani 1952 C (3) SA te 644E - F; Schmidt Die Bewysreg te 403; Hoffmann & Zeffertt The So......
  • Dadabhay v Dadabhay and Another
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    ...followed by other Judges; and therefore to hold that "cession", in s 1 (1) of Act 68 of 1957, means a cession in the nature of a sale. 1981 (3) SA p1050 Holmes AJA As a matter of interest, the repealing and re-enacting Act 71 of 1969 omits the word "cession". To sum up, in the present matte......
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  • Director of Public Prosecutions, Transvaal v Viljoen
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...en Andere 1998 (2) SACR 321 (T) S v Smile 1998 (1) SACR 688 (SCA) E S v Soci 1998 (2) SACR 275 (E) (1998 (3) BCLR 376) S v Steyn 1981 (3) SA 1050 (C) S v Tshabalala 1999 (1) SACR 412 (C) ([1999] 1 All SA 677) S v Tshidiso 2002 (1) SACR 207 (W) S v Van den Berg 1996 (1) SACR 19 (Nm) (1995 (4......
  • S v Ramgobin and Others
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...led at the trial can, if he considers it appropriate, reverse his earlier decision. That was the view taken in S v Steyn en Andere 1981 (3) SA 1050 (C). The correctness of this view was doubted in S v Leepile and Others (2) 1986 (2) SA 346 (W) at 350H - J. In my view, however, the Court wou......
  • S v Mphalele and Another
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...Hof in ieder geval geen bewyswaarde aan die verklaring geheg het nie of moes dit geheel en al uitgesluit gewees het. S v Steyn en Andere 1981 (3) SA 1050; S v Mkwanazi 1966 (1) SA te 742E - 743E; R v Melozani 1952 C (3) SA te 644E - F; Schmidt Die Bewysreg te 403; Hoffmann & Zeffertt The So......
  • Dadabhay v Dadabhay and Another
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...followed by other Judges; and therefore to hold that "cession", in s 1 (1) of Act 68 of 1957, means a cession in the nature of a sale. 1981 (3) SA p1050 Holmes AJA As a matter of interest, the repealing and re-enacting Act 71 of 1969 omits the word "cession". To sum up, in the present matte......
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