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/ 28 November 2006
The vice-chancellor of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the chairperson of the council have stepped aside from their positions pending investigations into claims of sexual harassment and victimisation. Vice-chancellor Professor Malegapuru Makgoba has taken a leave of absence, while council chairperson Dr Vincent Maphai stood down.
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/ 9 November 2006
Fraud convict Schabir Shaik cut a lonely figure in the back of the police van that carried him through the gates of Durban’s Westville Prison on Thursday. It was the start of the 15-year sentence for fraud and corruption that the former financial adviser to Jacob Zuma had tried so desperately to avoid, but his hopes were dashed by a full bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal on Monday.
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/ 3 November 2006
The pilot of a light aircraft was killed when his plane crashed into a house north of Durban on Friday afternoon. Witnesses at Sgodiphola, 40km north of Tongaat on the R614 road to Greytown, said the plane was already in flames before it hit the house in foggy weather. It is believed that the aircraft took off from Virginia airport in Durban.
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/ 3 November 2006
The Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday granted the state leave to appeal against the voiding of the search-and-seizure raids by the Scorpions on Jacob Zuma’s properties and that of his attorney, Michael Hulley. The application for leave to appeal was not opposed by Zuma’s legal team.
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/ 1 November 2006
The remaining two Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ministers in the KwaZulu-Natal cabinet were fired on Wednesday and replaced with stalwarts from the African National Congress (ANC). KwaZulu-Natal premier Sbu Ndebele also axed the ANC’s Gabriel Ndabandaba, the agricultural and environmental affairs provincial minister.
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/ 24 October 2006
One of the two men accused of killing Carletonville teenager Kalin Jooste ”enjoyed posing for the camera” as he showed police the scene of the attack, the Ramsgate High Court heard on Tuesday. Thembisile Pilisi (19) and Vukile ”Chico” Sinama (20) have both pleaded not guilty to last year’s attack on Zelne Maritz and Jooste.
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/ 19 October 2006
A teenager broke down in the Ramsgate High Court on Thursday as she recounted how her friend from Carletonville, Kalin Jooste, bled to death after being attacked in December last year. Earlier, the two men accused of murdering 16-year-old Jooste pleaded not guilty.
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh and South African President Thabo Mbeki unveiled a plaque at Durban’s Resistance Park on Sunday. Well known anti-apartheid activist Fatima Meer also spoke in Resistance Park, so named because of a ”non-white” gathering held at the park in 1946 in protest against race laws.
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/ 18 September 2006
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Jacob Zuma supporters might hope that Judge Herbert Msimang will throw his case out of the Pietermaritzburg High Court Wednesday, but they are more likely to be disappointed. The truth is that Msimang’s ruling only determines whether the state gets a postponement and for how long. The case stays before the courts.
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/ 9 September 2006
Three HIV-positive prisoners are known to have died in Durban’s Westville Prison since the Department of Correctional Services was challenged in the courts over its antiretroviral treatment programme, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said on Friday.