Volunteer psychologists in Cape Town speak of a sense of profound hopelessness among foreigners. Men came forward for therapy more readily than women.
The Justice Department has rejected the Italian authorities’ request for the extradition of convicted Mafia boss Vito Palazzolo.
An eight-year-old Worcester boy told his teacher and his mother that he was repeatedly raped, beaten and threatened by children at his school.
A battle over questionable government tenders has broken out in the Western Cape African National Congress, with provincial transport and public works minister Marius Fransman at its centre.
The Western Cape government and the City of Cape Town have locked horns over the handling of xenophobia victims.
President Thabo Mbeki insisted this week that he had no prior warning of xenophobic violence, but he was flatly contradicted by a group of Congolese and Rwandan refugees in Cape Town.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe will face a tough, courtroom-style interrogation by the disciplinary committee of the Judical Service Commission.
It took them a while to wake up and stop arguing about whose fault it was, but almost three weeks after xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals began, authorities in the worst-affected provinces have moved into action. Reintegration is the new game plan of the national government, Gauteng and the Western Cape.
Najwa Petersen appeared in court every day wearing a colour-coordinated suit, matching scarf and hennaed fingernails. She ordered 30 new outfits for the trial, allegedly underwent liposuction and had a breast enlargement operation barely a month after Petersen’s death. ”She’s now a 36DD!” friends and relatives of Petersen said outside court.
Suspended prosecutions boss Vusi Pikoli was instructed by Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Brigitte Mabandla, acting on President Thabo Mbeki’s orders, to cancel the Scorpions’s investigation of police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.