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That Nkandla is a depressed area where the people feel economically and politically marginalised is tangible. Nkandla town’s streets are filled with young people with nothing to do and any line of questioning regarding Jacob Zuma inevitably ends with the desperate hope that the situation in the area would improve if he were to become president.
This week, Jacob Zuma delivered his testimony in Zulu. It was the type of language that would have had him laughed at by the KwaMashu youth. Having being declared by his foes according to the disputed hoax e-mails to be "the Zulu boy", but embraced by his supporters as "100% Zuluboy", Zuma has gone back to his KwaNxamalala village roots.
Forensic analysis of Dina Rodrigues’s handwriting had identified her as a suspect in the murder of six-month-old baby Jordan Leigh-Norton, the Cape High Court heard on Thursday. Rodrigues was arrested when she arrived at work while her desk and office were being searched for more handwriting and signature specimens.
Thousands of youngsters stood in line on Thursday to audition for the roles of the Von Trapp children in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new stage production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. By early Thursday, more than 2 000 youngsters were standing in line outside the Palladium Theatre.
Construction workers discovered 74 bone fragments over the weekend on a rooftop at a vacant skyscraper across from the World Trade Centre site in New York, the largest discovery of body parts since clean-up of the building began last fall, officials said. The skyscraper was damaged during the events of September 11 2001.
A witness in the LeisureNet trial on Thursday told the Cape High Court he plotted with one of the group’s bosses to lie to the official Companies Act inquiry into the collapse of the group. Dawid Rabie was once LeisureNet’s in-house architect and has been in the witness box for two days.
Pan Africanist Congress leader Motsoko Pheko has until April 28 to account for missing parliamentary travel vouchers or face possible civil proceedings, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard on Thursday. Pheko’s appearance on Thursday was the latest in the Travelgate liquidation saga.
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has been accused of neglecting its constitutional duties because the service is ”no longer capable of protecting and safeguarding” South Africans and their property, said Freedom Front+ safety and security spokesperson, Pieter Groenewald, on Thursday. ”This incapacity is proven by the findings of the Institute for Race Relations that there are three times more private security officers than police officers.