THE STATE v NECIOUS NDLOVU

Key Issues

• {"issue_text":"Whether the trial court erred in failing to safeguard the procedural rights of an unrepresented accused person, specifically the right to be advised of the purpose of cross-examination and the right to make closing submissions.","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"Failure to explain cross-examination; failure to advise of right to sum up case; failure to advise of right to legal aid; failure to record language choice."}
• {"issue_text":"Whether the cumulative sentence of forty years imprisonment was shocking and disturbing, inducing a sense of shock, and thus excessive.","issue_type":"law","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"Imposition of 20 years per count for two counts of rape against the same victim, resulting in 40 years cumulative sentence."}

Background