INTERPOL ON LION CASE The investigation into lion hunting in South Africa, first exposed in the Mail & Guardian, has received a boost with the news that a team of Interpol agents will join SAPS detectives investigating the practice of hunting drugged or tame lions in enclosed areas.
See M&G’s expos of canned lion hunting.
NEW SOWETO MAYOR THE Gauteng ANC executive committee officially endorsed and appointed Nandi Mayathula-Khoza as Johannesburg’s new Southern Metropolitan Local Council mayor on Thursday. Mayathula-Khoza has been with the the ANC since the early 1980s, as part of the United Democratic Front.
R10m DAYLIGHT ROBBERY A GANG of between 15 and 20 men armed with pistols and AK-47s held up a security van on the N12 near Springs on Wednesday morning, escaping with R10-million in cash. A security guard was shot in the leg during the military-style heist. Police later found the abandoned getaway vehicles, but no arrests have been made.
END OF THE CANE The ban on corporal punishment was approved by the national assembly on Wednesday, amid concerns that no alternative form of punishment for juveniles had been put in place.