Advocate Gilbert Marcus, SC, on Monday argued before the Johannesburg High Court that his clients, Roger and Brett Kebble broke no laws in a series of deals involving Randfontein Estates gold mine in 1999.

The Zimbabwean government is investigating illegal hunting by South Africans in the south of the country. A damning report on illegal hunting compiled by wildlife activists including the Zimbabwe Wildlife Task Force has been released. It named illegal South African hunters and their collaborators in government.

South Africa edged closer to the government’s declared target of placing at least 8% of the country’s land under ”people’s conservation” this week, with the announcement of the largest single proclamation of protected areas since the 1930s.

Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana has handed a report on Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s alleged breach of the executive ethics code to President Thabo Mbeki. Under the Executive Members’ Ethics Act, Mbeki must table the report and his comments on it in the National Assembly within 14 days.

Journalist Ranjeni Munusamy said on Monday she will attend a public hearing of the Hefer commission in Bloemfontein, as she was subpoenaed to do — but added there was ”no way” in which she would reveal her journalistic sources. ”There are at least 15 people whose identities I need to protect,” she said.

Two Egyptian boys who were born joined at the head were lying in separate beds for the first time in their two years of existence on Monday, but doctors who worked 26 hours to separate them warned that they still faced a long road to recovery.