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/ 30 October 2007
Former spy boss Billy Masetlha on Tuesday told the Hatfield Community Court how he went though a period of humiliation and victimisation while trying to get access to the premises of the National Intelligence Agency in order to get the information needed by the inspector general of intelligence.
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/ 10 September 2007
As Africa’s economies grow, the production of alcohol, along with consumption of the substance, will increase, it was said at a seminar on alcohol in Pretoria on Monday. ”Africa will be experiencing a growth market and a lot of activity is still going to happen,” said Isidore Obot from the Centre of Research and Information on Substance Abuse.
Three women who confessed to the killing of a baby and burying the body in a yard abandoned their bail applications in court on Wednesday. They appeared in the Mamelodi Magistrate’s Court in Pretoria, which postponed the case to August 28. The women are 34-year-old Cecilia Mokgabane Seale, Rosinah Show, an aunt, and Thandi Martha Matubane, the midwife.
Forensic experts exhumed a baby on Tuesday who was drowned and buried in a yard — allegedly by her mother — last year, Pretoria police said. ”I can confirm that forensic experts found the remains of the child in the yard,” Inspector Paul Ramaloko said. He said the child was buried in July last year just after being born.
South Africans have taken the bait for the FishMS line that can tell you whether the fish you are about to eat is in plentiful supply or illegal, a spokesperson for the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative said on Monday. The instant access to accurate information and an informed choice has ”struck a chord with South Africa’s seafood lovers”, Timony Siebert said.
Andrew Jordaan, the man accused of murdering seven-year-old Sheldean Human, appeared briefly in the Pretoria Regional Court on Wednesday, where his case was transferred to the Pretoria High Court for trial. His trial at the high court will start on August 2. Along with the murder charge, Jordaan now faces charges of kidnapping, rape and possession of dagga.
Murdered seven-year-old Sheldean Human should not be forgotten, and her death should be used as an instrument for ”change in our communities”, mourners said at a memorial service in Pretoria on Tuesday. Sheldean, a grade two pupil at Laerskool Tuinrand, was found murdered on March 5 after she went missing from her Pretoria Gardens home on February 18.
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/ 13 January 2007
Poverty eradication is the African National Congress’s (ANC) central task in the run-up to the 2012 general election, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday. Mbeki, the party leader, was addressing high-profile ANC members and thousands of supporters at the ANC’s 95th birthday celebrations at the @lantic Stadium in Witbank.
About 11 white students painted their faces black in a bid to be classified as Africans at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Thursday. The group, led by AfriForum CEO Callie Kriel, handed a memorandum to a representative of the President’s office, Elisa Ndlovu. Kriel said the students’ tongue-in-cheek action carried a very serious message.
Voluntary testing among prison inmates and correctional services employees was encouraged at the launch of the Department of Correctional Services’ HIV/syphilis-prevalence survey in Pretoria on Monday. Offenders and officials need to know their status because the current 5% of known HIV cases among inmates is most probably incorrect, considering the country’s HIV rate, the department said.