THE Law Society of the Transvaal announced on Sunday it will establish a new transformed council which will give both the Black Lawyers’ Association and the National Association of Democratic Lawyers representation. Both associations will have 25%, or five members, represented on the council. Of these, four are from Gauteng, and two each from the Northern, North-West and Mpumalanga provinces.
STUDENT SHOOTS THREE LECTURERS
A STUDENT at the Tompi Seleka agricultural colleged in Northern Province on Friday ran amok, shooting three lecturers before escaping, according to an SABC-TV news report. Pursued by police, he later shot himself dead. The student, David Malebana (20), was apparently angered by a week’s extension to his training. Two of the lecturers he shot died on the scene, while a third died on the way to hospital.
POLYGAMY FOR WHITES
AN Afrikaner theology professor says South Africa should legalise polygamy for whites to beat a divorce rate amongst the highest in the world, a Johannesburg newspaper reported on Friday. “Timesharing awaits us, ladies. And that at a time Viagra was sent for men,” it quoted Christina Landman, a theology professor at the University of South Africa in Pretoria and member of the conservative Dutch Reformed Church, as saying. Only one in three South African marriages endures, and Landman argues that polygamy would allow a husband to take on additional mistresses without his wife feeling betrayed and left with no option but divorce.