Faranaaz Parker
Faranaaz Parker is a reporter for the Mail & Guardian. She writes on everything from pop science to public health, and believes South Africa needs carbon taxes and more raging feminists. When she isn't instagramming pictures of her toddler or obsessively checking her Twitter, she plays third-person shooters on Xbox Live.
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/ 22 January 1999

BANANA VICTIM SEEKS PARDON

JEFTA DUBE, sexually abused by former Zimbabwean president Canaan Banana while he worked as his aide-de-camp during the 1980s, petitioned the justice ministry on Thursday for a free pardon or remission of sentence. Dube has served two years of a 10-year jail sentence for killing police officer Patrick Mashiri in 1995. Mashiri called Dube “Banana’s […]