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/ 13 October 2005
The Cape Bar Council has referred to Chief Justice Pius Langa allegations of racism against the Judge President of the Cape Division John Hlophe. ”If these allegations are indeed true, they are most disturbing,” said advocate Ashton Schippers, chairperson of the Cape Bar Council.
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/ 10 October 2005
Health officials are monitoring 151 people for symptoms of the deadly Congo fever virus, which claimed the life of an unnamed farm labourer at Groote Schuur hospital on Monday. Confident the disease will not spread, officials on Monday discharged seven people, including the dead man’s wife and son, from the Riversdale hospital.
The grieving father of murdered mining magnate Brett Kebble told mourners at his son’s funeral service in Cape Town on Tuesday that he would do everything in his power to get to the bottom of his son’s murder. ”Of one thing I am sure, I will do all within my power to get to the bottom of Brett’s death,” vowed Roger Kebble.
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/ 14 September 2005
Marine biologists on Wednesday decided to blow up the skull of a beached whale at Mnandi beach along False Bay after numerous attempts to refloat it failed. A Marine and Coastal Management spokesperson said the whale, 10m long and weighing close to 11 tonnes, had beached after apparently making a navigational error.
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/ 9 September 2005
The deputy leader of the Independent Democrats, Themba Sono, crossed the floor to a fledgling party just hours after the Cape High Court reversed his expulsion from the ID on Friday. The ID had feared that Sono would defect. ”I have joined the Alliance of Free Democrats,” said Sono in a media statement.
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/ 6 September 2005
Successfully applying for a postponement on Tuesday, arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne suggested in an application before the Cape High Court that Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s sequestration action was ”malicious”. Crawford-Browne said it was ”unreasonable” for an individual, who acted in the public interest, to be punished or sequestrated for legal costs.
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/ 2 September 2005
A Cape High Court matter about Independent Democrats deputy leader Themba Sono’s cessation of party membership because of failure to pay a R10 membership fee was on Friday postponed to next Wednesday. Friday’s court proceedings against Sono follow a gruelling legal battle with ID dissident Lennit Max.
The jewel in South Africa’s tourism crown, Cape Town, faces a filthy future as the city’s six major landfill sites are expected to reach their capacity in the next five years. ”We have a serious crisis. Imagine what the city will look like in 2010,” said Saliem Haider, acting head of disposal in the city’s solid-waste department.
South Africa is developing a three-pronged approach to fight the scourge of rape, with a national strategy on course to be piloted in at least three provinces by June next year. The interdepartmental strategy will develop a tri-pillar plan, focusing on prevention, responses and support interventions.
A torrent of expletives greeted the man accused of being the Station Strangler when he arrived at the Mitchells Plain Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for an inquest into the deaths of three boys. Norman Afzal Simons, then a 27-year-old teacher, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for only one killing.