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/ 16 October 2006
The claim that the Constitution contains a criminal’s bill of rights has been often made by the ”law and order” lobby. These spokespeople emphasise order above law, as if the denial of due process to accused persons will curb the crime wave. There is a nostalgia in the land for a return to the jackboot of apartheid policing: assault an accused, extract the confession and procure a conviction.
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/ 16 October 2006
The Randburg Regional Court refused bail to senior Scorpions advocate Portia Kgantsi on Monday. She was arrested recently for bribery, corruption, extortion and defeating the ends of justice. Also against Kgantsi was a prior conviction for theft, about which she had never told the National Prosecuting Authority.
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/ 16 October 2006
There’s a war going on in the United States. A war on metros. After years of living under the cruel designer heel of those triumphant metrosexuals, poor old retrosexuals — alias ”regular guys” — are fighting back. Old-time, unself-conscious, un-moisturised masculinity is in. Guys are guys again, with manly, painstakingly shaped and trimmed beards.
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/ 15 October 2006
Former president PW Botha was discharged from the George medi-clinic on Saturday, after going in for a ”routine check-up”, the hospital said. ”The family has asked not to reveal the nature of the tests but all results were good,” said hospital manager George Schutte.
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/ 15 October 2006
A fundraising dinner in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, has raised more than R500 000 for African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday. Among those attending were the provincial leadership of the ANC, provincial ministers, mayors and business people.
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/ 15 October 2006
Indian police have made little headway in a probe into a 2000 cricket match-fixing scam due a problem in translating taped conversations in Afrikaans, a report said on Sunday. In 2000, police in New Delhi had filed a case against Proteas cricketers, including then captain Hansie Cronje, and middlemen for allegedly accepting money to influence the outcome of matches.
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/ 15 October 2006
Just after midnight, in the early hours of Sunday morning, Johannesburg High Court Judge Zukiswa Tshiqi dismissed with costs the SABC’s application to have the Mail & Guardian Online remove a report on the blacklisting of certain analysts and commentators by the broadcaster. ”I don’t believe that it is okay to suppress information or to hide information written in the report,” she told the court.
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/ 14 October 2006
The Currie Cup was shared for the fourth time in its history when the Cheetahs and the Blue Bulls played to a 28-28 draw at Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein on Saturday evening. Both sides earned the boasting rights for one more season after playing 100 minutes of rugby when they deadlocked at 25-25 after 80 minutes.
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/ 14 October 2006
The Mail & Guardian Online was on Saturday morning interdicted from publishing the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s report into whether there was a policy blacklisting some commentators because of their political views. On Saturday night, M&G lawyers were fighting the interdict in the Johannesburg High Court. It is probably the first time that a major South African online news publisher has been interdicted.
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/ 14 October 2006
South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira, the former world number six and who holds the record for the most consecutive Grand Slam tournaments played, admitted Saturday that retirement has been hard. The 35-year-old, an Australian Open semifinalist in 1992 and 2003, called it a day on the ATP Tour at the 2004 US Open.