Jenni Evans
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/ 27 June 2006

Jeppe-siege accused make court appearance

Eleven of 16 people arrested for Sunday’s Jeppestown siege were remanded until July 27 by the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Sunday’s shootout in Johannesburg left 12 people dead, four of them police officers. On Tuesday at least 10 police officers with rifles and handguns blocked the doors to the court as the first nine men laboured up the steps from the holding cells.

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/ 11 May 2006

Gautrain project team ready to start digging

The Gauteng Rapid Rail team on Thursday unveiled a complex plan of street closures, demolitions and expropriations — set to begin mid-May — for the construction of the new Gautrain link between Johannesburg and Pretoria. Digging will start "within weeks" for the first preparations, said project leader Jack van der Merwe.

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/ 9 May 2006

Parties welcome Zuma apology

The Congress of South African Trade Unions has welcomed Jacob Zuma’s apology for having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman. It said it agreed with Judge Willem van der Merwe that ”it is totally unacceptable that a man should have unprotected sex with a person other than his regular partner and definitely not with a person who, to his knowledge, is HIV-positive”.

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/ 7 May 2006

All eyes on Zuma verdict

All eyes will be on Jacob Zuma’s rape trial judgement in Johannesburg High Court 4E on Monday. If he is not guilty, he will collect his R20 000 bail money and walk out of the court a free man. If he is found guilty, the sentencing and appeal process will begin.

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/ 18 April 2006

Agony aunt theorises about rape

Emotional transference could lead a victim of previous rape to perceive consensual sex as rape afterwards, a forensic psychologist told Jacob Zuma’s rape trial on Tuesday. Testifying for Zuma, Louise Olivier also questioned whether his rape accuser froze during the alleged rape at his Johannesburg home.