CCT 225/20

[2021] ZACC 12

2022 (1) SACR 229 (CC)

Majiedt J

21 May 2021

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12144/36773

Appeal from the Supreme Court of Appeal Court (hearing an appeal from the High Court of South Africa, Northern Cape Division, Kimberley)

Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 — Section 276B — non-retrospectivity of non-parole periods in terms of section 276B — non-applicability of section 276B at the time of sentencing Section 12(1)(a) of the Constitution — substantive and procedural requirements — fatal misdirection where no opportunity to make representations on non-parole period