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/ 12 November 2010
Despite the publicity generated by Netcare’s complicity in the cash-for-kidneys scheme, the issue of the welfare of those who took part is ignored.
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/ 12 November 2010
Healthcare group cuts a deal with court over illegal organ harvesting — and medical personnel seem set to follow.
A land grab near Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal went horribly wrong last week when the Pietermaritzburg High Court restrained Jabulani Mdlalose, a pretender to the chieftancy of the Othaka Tribal Authority, from encouraging a land invasion.
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/ 12 February 2003
A mysterious group of vigilantes called the Black Scorpions has arisen in the Upper Tugela area of KwaZulu-Natal to combat the rampant stock theft in the area that residents say the police cannot — or will not — control.
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/ 10 February 2003
Pietermaritzburg magistrate and former Scorpions investigator Ashwin Singh – who is due to go on trial for defeating the ends of justice – is considering conducting his own defence. The charges arose from his work within the elite Scorpions unit.
A series of ”prison mafia trials” are likely to arise from the murder trial of Pietermaritzburg’s self-styled prison boss, Russel Ngubo, and associated investigations of the Jali commission
Evidence before the Jali commission has highlighted the gross dereliction of leadership in prisons. ‘It’s like a plot in a movie script,” said East Coast Radio presenter Anisa Ussuph
INVESTIGATORS of the Jali commission have begun probing information that warders at Pietermaritzburg New Prison have made extensive use of prisoners as hired guns