South Africa
Lawyers focus on strategy to protect children
CAPE TOWN -- The plight of children in South Africa remained an issue of considerable concern, with inadequate legislation contributing to their vulnerability, the South African Law Commission (SALC) said yesterday. Many children remained victims ...
Act must regulate support
CAPE TOWN -- The South African Law Commission has recommended that legislation be passed to provide for the appointment of investigators to help alleviate problems associated with the current maintenance system. In a statement presented to Justice...
'Give magistrates more jurisdiction'
CAPE TOWN -- Magistrate's courts should be given a constitutional jurisdiction appropriate to their position in South Africa's court structure, the South African Law Commission proposed yesterday. In a statement attached to its discussion paper on...
University pioneering new way of learning
CAPE TOWN -- Stellenbosch University could soon have close to 100000 registered students, with most of them never having to go to campus -- except for graduation. The university is pioneering a new way of learning which will enable thousands of pe...
Lubowski witnesses face R3,3m litigation
WINDHOEK -- Four years after their testimony implicating senior police and army officers in the assassination of Dr Anton Lubowski was dismissed at the first inquest into the Swapo activist's death, two controversial witnesses this week returned to...
McBride will know fate soon
JOHANNESBURG -- Detained South African foreign affairs official Robert McBride will know his fate by Monday, his wife Paula said yesterday. Mr McBride was arrested in Mozambique on March 9 with Vusi Mbatha and detained for the maximum time allowab...
DP unveils solution for police
CAPE TOWN -- On the same day that President Nelson Mandela told Western Cape policemen to make do with their current budget and resources, the Democratic Party (DP) unveiled its solution to combat poorly-managed and under-resourced policing. DP sa...
Media leak surprises Zuma
CAPE TOWN -- Health Minister Nkosazana Zuma yesterday said she would investigate the circumstances surrounding claims that she planned to axe director-general Olive Shisana. While not directly denying that she planned to fire Dr Shisana, Dr Zuma s...
Pre-employment HIV test recommendation
CAPE TOWN -- The South African Law Commission (SALC) has recommended legislative intervention to clarify the circumstances under which an employer could require an applicant for employment to take an HIV test. In its second interim Report on Aspec...
Toks fined R10000 for race slur
CAPE TOWN -- Springbok and Western Stormers prop Toks van der Linde was yesterday found guilty of racism by a South African Rugby Football Union disciplinary committee. The prop forward called a former South African woman a ''kaffir'' in a pub in ...
SA court cuts bail for US pair
JOHANNESBURG -- At their 121st court appearance yesterday, bail was reduced to R7000 each for American couple Harold and Coralee Thomas who have been held since their arrest three years ago for a R3 billion bank fraud scam. After four unsuccessfu...
Rules 'prevent Sarfu executive quitting at once'
CAPE TOWN -- The full executive of the SA Rugby Football Union will not accede to the demand of the National Sports Council to resign en masse, Sarfu said yesterday. In a statement read out by Sarfu chief executive Rian Oberholzer after an executi...
2 ANC assassins get amnesty
CAPE TOWN -- The commission has granted amnesty to two ANC activists who attempted to assassinate a security branch policeman in Middelburg in August 1993. A panel of the amnesty committee granted amnesty to Simphiwe Lincoln Bleki, 31, and Oscar T...
Kruser's position queried by IFP
CAPE TOWN -- The IFP yesterday questioned whether Mr Gary Kruser, the man who ordered the March 1994 Shell House shootings, should head the police VIP protection unit. IFP safety and security spokesman Velaphi Ndlovu was reacting to Mr Kruser's te...
Shell House security officer 'feared another Boipatong'
JOHANNESBURG -- The ANC official who ordered the Shell House shootings in 1994 feared an attack similar to the one at Boipatong in December 1992, the amnesty committee heard here yesterday. Amnesty applicant Gary Kruser was in charge of security a...
Victims of 1994 AWB bombs asked to contact commission
CAPE TOWN -- The commission yesterday asked victims of the AWB's pre-election bombings in 1994 to contact it if they wished to attend the hearings. The TRC's amnesty committee has scheduled the hearings for June 15 to 26. The pre-election bombing ...
