Thomas Siebert shifts uncomfortably on the wooden court bench and flinches occasionally at the testimony of the man who sodomised and then strangled his six-year-old son to death 18 months ago. He tries to avoid staring at the 48-year-old killer, Theunis Olivier, instead peering around the courtroom and making occasional notes.
Sudan will allow Darfur rebel figure Suleiman Jamous to be moved without risk of arrest if the international community guarantees he will not rejoin armed rebels in Darfur. Jamous, a rebel Sudan Liberation Army Humanitarian coordinator has been virtually imprisoned for more than 13 months.
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) said it would ensure that Deputy Health Minister Nosizwe Madlala-Routledge repaid the public funds she used for an unauthorised overseas trip, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Wednesday.
Thousands of Zimbabwean commuters were on Tuesday stranded throughout the country as fuel shortages reached crisis proportions, state media reported. People in Harare are spending up to four days looking for buses to take them to rural villages ahead of a public holiday next week, ZBC radio said.
South African musician Hugh Masekela believes he is no longer welcome as a performer in South Africa, the Times Online reported on Wednesday. The trumpeter said that many talented musicians whose voices became symbols of protest against white domination found it hard to get bookings in South Africa.
The average abused woman leaves her husband 37 times before she divorces him. After every lame excuse, every bunch of flowers and every empty promise, she takes him back again. And again. And again. Why? Women’s rights activists, social workers and clinical psychologists agree: abused women are kept in abusive relationships by a combination of fear, emotional or financial dependence, low self-esteem or a false sense of loyalty.
On May 19 1955, six brave women gathered the support of thousands of other women and marched in protest against the Senate Bill and the Separate Representation of Voters Act, which would finally remove the so-called coloured voters from the common voters’ roll. They wore black sashes, a symbol of mourning over the death of their constitutional rights.
South Africa has taken huge steps in the past few years to increase the rights of women in the public and private sectors and to change patriarchal attitudes. Still many gender experts believe the battle is far from won and some critics believe that in some instances women are being left behind.
Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner, Eva Hesse, Käthe Kollwitz and Gertrude Stein have all infiltrated or raided an art gallery or festival around the world to promote women and minorities — or, at least, their alter egos, the Guerrilla Girls, have. This is a group of anonymous women who assume the identities of dead female artists and appear in public wearing gorilla masks.
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi expressed shame on Tuesday over how an apparent disappearance of an South African Communist Party (SACP) donation had been handled. ”We think the whole matter is such a clumsy disgrace to our movement,” he said.