The African National Congress Women’s League on Monday objected to court rulings evicting a family from ”ancestral land” in Limpopo and refusing permission for a matriarch to be buried there. The league has noted a ”deliberate attempt on the part of the landowners to frustrate the process”.
The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) was ”flabbergasted” on Monday by the ”sluggishness” of the Johannesburg Labour Court in ruling on a dispute between Vodacom and CWU members. On March 12, Vodacom obtained an interim court order preventing workers belonging to the CWU from striking.
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Jacob Zuma has lodged an application for leave to appeal against the Durban High Court’s decision to request documents from Mauritius that may relate to arms deal corruption. The African National Congress deputy president, who celebrated his birthday with a lavish party in Durban at the weekend, lodged the application on Monday.
Wimpy South Africa is probing an incident in which a customer was arrested and assaulted for lighting a cigarette at one of its restaurants at OR Tambo International Airport. The manager at the restaurant allegedly grabbed a cigarette from the man’s mouth when he declined to order something while waiting for his flight.
The person who stabbed baby Jordan-Leigh Norton in the neck had the direct intention of killing her, it was argued in the Cape High Court on Monday. Closing argument started before Judge Basher Waglay in the marathon trial of five suspects, including the alleged mastermind in the baby’s murder, Dina Rodrigues.
The former co-owner of the Cape Town branch of the Teazers nightclub, Michael Jackson, was on Monday refused leave to appeal by the Cape High Court against his conviction for the murder of a street child. Jackson (45) shot dead street child Xolani Zodwana three years ago.
Oil prices rose on Monday ahead of the expected restarts at United States refineries and Nigerian presidential elections that some fear could spark violence that may disrupt oil supplies. The 10th consecutive week of draws on US gasoline inventories last week also had potential to exert upward pressure on prices.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed on Monday on Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria’s largest state of Kano as protests greeted a delay in the results of weekend polls. Meanwhile, the Nigerian Supreme Court on Monday reversed an Inec ruling that disqualified a top opposition politician from the weekend’s presidential poll.
A father was arrested for allegedly bombing a shack and killing his two-year-old son in Embalenhle in Secunda, Mpumalanga police said on Monday. Inspector Thabiso Ncongwane said the baby had been sleeping along with his mother and her partner when their shack was bombed with mining explosives.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela beamed on Monday as he watched his grandson reclaim a traditional leadership post that Mandela had renounced decades ago to become a lawyer and dedicate his life to fighting apartheid. Mandla Mandela (32) was draped in a lion skin, the symbol of royalty.