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The Child Justice Act came in to law on 1 April 2010, and the Eugene Terre’blanche murder trial, where one of the accused is a minor, is the first high profile case in which media outlets (Media 24 Ltd, The South African National Editor’s Forum (SANEF), E.TV (Pty) Ltd.  and E.SAT (Pty) Ltd ) have applied to be present at a sitting of a ‘child justice court”.

In response Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has made an application as a friend of the Court.

The result of these applications may set a precedent for the manner in which media report on ‘child justice court’ proceedings into the future.

Read MMA’s application

Read the Media 24, SANEF, E.TV and E.SAT application