Mariette Le Roux
Guest Author
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/ 3 March 2005

Almost home time for SA ‘mercenaries’

The wheels were in motion late on Thursday afternoon for the homecoming of 64 suspected South African mercenaries jailed in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean authorities were processing deportation papers for the men, after which they would be handed over to immigration officials, a Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said.

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/ 24 February 2005

Basson: Apartheid crimes may feature

The right of the public to information on covert crimes in the apartheid years might justify a proper adjudication of quashed charges against Wouter Basson, a Constitutional Court judge said on Thursday. The South African and Namibian public, especially relatives of people who disappeared, have the right to obtain clarity, Judge Albie Sachs stated.

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/ 23 February 2005

Basson trial judge was biased, says state

The state’s claims that the trial judge who acquitted apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson was biased were examined in the Constitutional Court on Wednesday. Alfred Cockrell argued on behalf of the state that any reasonable person would conclude trial Judge Willie Hartzenberg had been unconsciously biased.

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/ 16 February 2005

Beeld in trouble for ‘Barbie’ column

Beeld newspaper editor Peet Kruger and freelance columnist Jeanne Goosen were ordered on Wednesday to appear before a Pretoria judge to explain why a column on the ”advocate Barbie” sex-crime trial contained wrong information. Judge Essop Patel ruled that the column appeared at first glance to be in contempt of court.

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/ 14 February 2005

Ngcuka denies ‘contrived’ claim

Former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka denied on Monday having promised politician and convicted fraudster Tony Yengeni a maximum R5 000 fine in exchange for a guilty plea. ”This is a distorted version of the truth,” Ngcuka, now a businessman, said through spokesperson Sipho Ngwema.