Curfew and shoot-on-sight orders have been extended on the Nepalese capital to Friday morning, state television announced. ”The curfew has been extended until 3am on Friday,” said an onscreen strap-line announcement. The royal government had imposed the measure on Kathmandu from 2am Thursday until 8pm to thwart a mass demonstration.
The Department of Health has rejected a demand for the inclusion of the Aids Law Project in South Africa’s delegation to next month’s special United Nations session on HIV/Aids. The demand was made by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) as a precondition for its acceptance of its own inclusion on the list.
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The Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday denied former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s application to be discharged on a rape count. Judge Willem van der Merwe said he could not agree that evidence led by the state was of such a poor quality that it could not be accepted. ”The accused is not entitled to his discharge,” he said.
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The medical report of Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser contained no proof of rape, his lawyer Kemp J Kemp told the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday. ”She reported the incident in terms which clearly did not describe it as rape,” Kemp submitted in final argument during his application for his client’s discharge.
Like a jackdaw furtively making off with a prized jewel, Cape Town-based Santos ”stole” off with a valuable 2-1 Absa Cup win against Moroka Swallows at a sparsely-filled, but shocked Orlando Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The stunning, deciding headed goal from Botswana international Dipsy Selolwane was scored in the 90th minute.
Parliament has rebuffed suggestions that National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete’s R471 900 trip to attend the inauguration of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Monrovia in January was a ”joyride across Africa”. The Mail & Guardian reported on the expensive trip on Friday.
Protesting security guards in Pretoria began to disperse on Thursday afternoon after their strike turned violent earlier, with a security vehicle set alight and rubbish strewn in the inner city. At one stage police fired rubber bullets at the protesting guards in an effort to calm the situation.
Suffering and sacrifices made during apartheid were not in vain, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said at a Human Rights Day rally in Sharpeville, Vereeniging, on Tuesday. The 1960 Sharpeville massacre was a ”watershed moment” that helped bring democracy to South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki said in Rome on Tuesday.
As South Africans celebrate Human Rights Day on Tuesday, some organisations will use the occasion to raise awareness of issues that particularly concern them. Human Life International said on Monday that it would continue its efforts to lobby until the human rights of all born and unborn children were legally protected.
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The woman Jacob Zuma allegedly raped told the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday she had been raped on a previous occasion. She said this while giving evidence on the contents of an SMS sent to her sister after the alleged incident involving Zuma.