Chief Justice Pius Langa on Tuesday confirmed that he had received a complaint about Cape Judge President John Hlophe. ”As far as the complaint by Judge [Siraj] Desai, yes, there is a complaint,” he told reporters attending the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) hearings in Cape Town.
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who is currently facing charges of crimes against humanity, will face, for the first time, genocide charges over the Anfal campaign against Kurds that left around 180Â 000 people dead, the Iraqi High Tribunal said on Tuesday. Similar charges are also being laid against six co-defendants.
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Old friendships and family ties were laid bare in Jacob Zuma’s Johannesburg High Court rape trial on Tuesday. Zuma chose to sit down for his second day of testimony and seemed relaxed as state prosecutor Charin de Beer examined his relationship with his rape accuser and her father.
An eight-year-old Indonesian girl who died last year has been confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as the nation’s 24th bird-flu fatality, a health ministry official said on Tuesday. Runizar Rusin, the head of the ministry’s bird-flu command post, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that samples taken from the girl were only recently sent to Hong Kong for testing.
Kenyan bird experts on Tuesday began probing the cause of fowl deaths in Lake Naivasha in the Rift Valley that have raised fears of a possible avian-flu outbreak, officials said. The veterinary experts arrived in Lake Naivasha, about 90km north-west of Nairobi, to take samples from dead birds that have succumbed to a mysterious disease in the past week.
The government’s barring of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the Aids Law Project from the United Nations General Assembly’s special session on Aids later this year in New York has evoked outrage from the Congress of South African Trade Unions and deep disappointment among the Aids-fighting NGOs.
Whites are two to three times more likely than Africans to graduate from universities in fields such as engineering, commerce and management sciences that are crucial to both the South African economy and the success of the government’s empowerment initiatives, the South African Institute for Race Relations said on Tuesday.
Australia achieved the first whitewash of South Africa in South Africa in more than a hundred years when they won the third Castle Lager Test at the Wanderers on Tuesday by two wickets. The small crowd that came to the ground knew that they were in for an exciting morning, and while they would have been disappointed with the result, they enjoyed an hour of thrilling cricket.
Telkom has made a firm offer of R9 per share for leading IT services provider Business Connexion (BCX). The Internet Service Providers’ Association of South Africa has already stated that it intends to lodge an objection with the Competition Commission if Telkom attempts to purchase a controlling stake in BCX.
Ilham could not hold back the tears as she recounted how her six-year-old sister Eglal bled to death under the knife of a traditional midwife circumcising her, even though it happened way back in 1980. Twenty-six years later, young girls in the poverty-stricken African country are still subjected to this ancient tradition, branded by human rights organisations as ”female genital mutilation or cutting” (FGM).