ANGOLA called on Thursday for the United Nations to publish results of its enquiry into the June plane crash which killed UN envoy Alioune Blondin Beye. Beye spent the last two years of his life mediating in Angola’s peace process between the Luanda government and Unita rebels. He was killed last June when the light aircraft he was travelling in went down in a mangrove swamp near the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan.
MORE MZWAKHE PARADE FOUL-UPS
FURTHER flaws in the identity parade involving robbery accused “people’s poet” Mzwakhe Mbuli were exposed on Thursday in the Pretoria High Court. Not only was Mbuli significantly taller than all those standing with him, but an Inspector Christiaan Theunissen who was involved in his arrest was present at the identity parade against regulations. Theunissen, despite his rank and experience, said he did not know better as he had not previously participated in an identity parade. Mbuli and two others are on trial for armed robbery and other offences relating to the theft of R15000 from the First National Bank in Waverley, Pretoria in October 1997.