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/ 22 October 2003
Judge Joos Hefer found on Wednesday that the Constitution did not grant immunity from testifying to every journalist in all circumstances. ”A journalist, like any other person, (is) obliged to testify but is entitled to refuse to answer any particular question against which there is a valid objection,” he said.
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/ 21 October 2003
A former comrade-in-arms of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka became the Hefer commission’s first witness to testify publicly. Ngcuka reportedly spent many years in prison for refusing to testify against fellow African National Congress member Patrick Ntobeko ("Ntobs") Maqubela, nowadays a lawyer.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22307">’Enough lies and deceit, I’m the spy'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=22267">Sources won’t be compromised</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=29920">Arms deal focus</a>
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/ 15 October 2003
Despite objections, the opening submissions of Mac Maharaj and Mo Shaik before the Hefer Commission of Inquiry were postponed on Wednesday to November 17. The two men’s advocate, Stephen Joseph SC, asked Judge Joos Hefer for the postponement, saying it was needed to obtain apartheid-era documents to support their testimony.
Delays, delays
Hefer commission postponed
Arms deal focus
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/ 15 October 2003
National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Sipho Ngwema has accused African National Congress veteran Mac Maharaj and foreign affairs adviser Mo Shaik of delaying tactics. The first public hearing of the Hefer commission, appointed to investigate Ngwema’s boss, Bulelani Ngcuka, was adjourned on Wednesday within its first 15 minutes.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=22049">Hefer commission postponed</a>
A 14-year-old boy cannot go to school because there is no-one else to look after his 85-year-old disabled grandmother. Their shack is one of the smallest and most dilapidated in one of Bloemfontein’s newest and poorest squatter areas.
Nature conservationists fear an invasion of local river systems after exotic freshwater crayfish were stolen from a Free State breeder this week.
The ”stubborn old lady” would have enjoyed sitting in the imposing presence of the grey mountain at the weekend, witnessing her extensive family regain their forebears’ land.
Critics of the judiciary should take note of the hard work being done in the country’s courts, a high court judge said during the sentencing of six convicted hijackers on Wednesday.
They believe God created an elect group of whites to rule the peoples of the world. They also believe the Bible forbids racial ”interbreeding”.