It was a case of David meeting Goliath at the Land Claims Court in Cape Town’s High Court this week. The court sat to ratify a settlement agreement signed between the Richtersveld community and the government, one which Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin has called a breakthrough.

After the heady excitement of last year’s pro-democracy uprising in Nepal that forced King Gyanendra to restore Parliament, Nepal’s eight-party coalition has fallen apart with the Maoists quitting the government. The move did not come as a surprise, as the ex-guerrillas had been warning of this for months. But it does put the fate of elections for the constituent assembly, scheduled for November 22, in real doubt.

Painting a swastika on a public building is a hate crime. But what happens when the building itself is the swastika? While appearing innocuous from the ground, the striking shape of a construction in San Diego, now on view to internet users accessing Google Earth, is unmistakable — it resembles the Nazi symbol.

After several false starts, the SABC is finally going to broadcast Unauthorised: Thabo Mbeki, the documentary that it canned 16 months ago “for being incurably defamatory”. The screening, which according to the SABC’s online schedule, will be shown on SABC3 on October 3 at 9.30pm, comes after the documentary had been screened as part of several film festivals in the country.

The town of Pomfret will be razed to the ground by December despite a recent assessment by the national department of public works showing that it could be developed into a fully fledged local authority. Bob Namusi, a councillor at the Molopo Local Municipality, under which the town falls, says the national public works department had mistakenly given residents of Pomfret the impression that the asbestos-polluted town could be rehabilitated without its residents moving.

Going home … going home … am a-going home … The lovely words of Aaron Neville’s song ring in my head for a whole fortnight before my three-week vacation in Zimbabwe. Each day I wake up and pump up the volume. I am so excited, I can’t wait. I haven’t been home for more than five months. This is long overdue, writes Everjoice Win.