”That’s disgusting!” shouted a family member of slain student Leigh Matthews when murderer Donovan Moodley reached out to touch his fiancée’s hand as he passed her when the court adjourned for tea on Thursday. Final arguments in the trial of Moodley will be heard in the Johannesburg High Court on Friday.
Witnesses called to testify in the Leigh Matthews murder trial provided the court with gripping facts on Wednesday, contradicting Donovan Moodley’s claims that he didn’t move Matthews’s body after he shot her in cold blood. On Monday, Moodley (25) was found guilty of kidnapping, extortion and the murder of Matthews.
Murderer Donovan Moodley sat emotionless when details of Leigh Matthews’s autopsy report was heard in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday. Pathologist Hendrik Scholtz took the court through a graphic description of findings that led him to cast doubt on Moodley’s claim that he killed Matthews at the spot where her body was found.
Standard Bank has signed a multimillion-rand enterprise licensing agreement with Microsoft South Africa for the upgrade of its 42Â 000 desktop PC platforms over the next three-and-a-half years, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday. The agreement is valued at more than R100-million.
Harry Potter is ready to cast a spell over the book industry this weekend, as the sixth volume in the boy-wizard series looks set to become the world’s biggest-selling novel as soon as it goes on sale. In South Africa, the price for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is set to range from R129 to R249 a copy.
Will South Africa’s new Deputy President, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, do a better job than her troubled predecessor, Jacob Zuma? According to a recent ACNielsen telephonic survey, the results of which were released on Wednesday, many South Africans have faith in her — despite not knowing her name.
London’s entire underground railway network was closed down on Thursday after a series of explosions that caused a ”large number of casualties” and at least 33 deaths, police said. An explosion ripped through a double-decker bus just minutes after blasts rocked the underground. British Home Secretary Charles Clarke said there had been ”terrible injuries” in the attacks.
Explosions rocked the London subway and a double-decker bus on Thursday, causing at least two deaths, injuring scores of riders and sending victims fleeing from blast sites. British Prime Minister Tony Blair called the explosions a "series of terrorist attacks". A group calling itself "The Secret Organisation of al-Qaeda in Europe" has claimed responsibility for the blasts in a web statement, reports said.
South Africans in London spoke to the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> immediately after Thursday’s series of blasts that hit the city’s underground railway system and a double-decker bus, describing the chaos and confusion that ensued as news of the explosions spread through the city.
President Thabo Mbeki has asked the secretary of Parliament to arrange for a joint sitting on Tuesday, his office said on Monday. Spokesperson Bheki Khumalo said: ”The president will deal with issues arising from the judgement of Judge Hilary Squires.”