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| Peddie police Inspector Zweliyshingana Mlumiso and Inspector Mark Deacon of the Grahamstown serious violent crime unit escort a 17-year-old youth accused of theft abduction and attempted murder of two researchers into the Peddie Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Picture: Phillip Nothnagel |
Peddie attack court drama
By Denver Donian and Cecile GreylingEast London – A JUVENILE wearing leg irons and under heavy guard appeared in the Peddie Magistrate’s Court yesterday over the savage attack on two researchers near Hamburg on Monday....
Family of abducted girl shattered by her death
By Lucas MatiEast London – The brutal killing of 20-year-old Zindzani High School Grade 8 pupil, Lydia Mankwenta, by heartless thugs has devastated family members, friends and relatives....
Brutal attack is condemned
Herald CorrespondentEast London – THE brutal attacks by seven thugs, accused of murdering a schoolgirl and assaulting two researchers, have been condemned by the government, political parties and community groups....
Donor ‘still unidentified’
Cape Town – DA fund-raiser Leon Markovitz, who received about R450 000 in cash from an anonymous man, told the Desai Commission yesterday he was still unable to identify the mystery donor....
Veteran court interpreter convicted of indecent assault
By Hendrick MphandeVETERAN Port Elizabeth court interpreter Nyameko Nanise, convicted of indecently assaulting a senior clerk at the High Court, was ordered in the Regional Court yesterday to ask his victim for forgiveness....
Top cop’s son ‘living like a king’ in prison
Herald ReporterA POLICE commissioner’s son was among 13 prisoners receiving preferential treatment at St Albans prison, the Jali commission heard yesterday....
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| Judge Thabana Jali |
Commissioners tour St Albans
Herald Reporter
A TOUR of St Albans prison by the Jali Commission yesterday exposed the harsher side of prison life....
Prison warder now an inmate
Bloemfontein – One of 22 suspended Grootvlei warders who was implicated in a secret videotape made by prisoners, has returned to the prison -- this time as an inmate....
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| Constable Eric Mbinda. Picture: Ivor Markman |
Brave cop is PE Star of the Year
By Max Matavire
A BRAVE Humewood Police crime prevention officer who rescued a badly burnt woman from a blazing house in Central has won the Port Elizabeth area Star of the Year 2001 award....
New Tourism PE boss has ID hassles
By Max Matavire, Municipal ReporterTOURISM PE’s new chief executive officer, Solomon Khunou, could not start work at the beginning of this month because he does not have a South African identity document....
Net tightens on Road Accident Fund fraud
By JULIAN RADEMEYER and Hendrick Mphande
POLICE continued to tighten the net on Road Accident Fund fraudsters yesterday, arresting 19 more people linked to 35 false claims totalling about R300 000....
Killer of girl gets two life sentences
By Nick WilsonSALT Lake child-killer David Noel yesterday received two life sentences after he was found guilty of raping and murdering 11-year-old Van der Kemp Primary Grade 5 pupil Celestine Jonkers in March last year....
Burglar stabs top SA hockey player
Herald CorrespondentJohannesburg – Top hockey player Craig Fulton was stabbed seven times in a scuffle with an intruder in his home on Wednesday night....
‘Coup plotters’ deny involvement in any subversive act
Pretoria – Senior SA National Defence Force officer Colonel Machiel Burger told the Pretoria Regional Court yesterday that he could lose his job should he remain in custody pending a trial on charges of treason and terrorism....
Premier refuses to disclose details of Mannya deal
By Sam Ka MkokeliBisho – Premier Makhenkesi Stofile has rejected calls to disclose publicly details of the out-of-court settlement he reached with former East Cape education superintendent-general Modidima Mannya....
Teacher faces charge of statutory rape of pupil
By Jimmy Matyu
A ZWIDE senior primary school teacher who allegedly admitted having sex with a 13-year-old pupil is facing a charge of statutory rape....
ANC call to Leon to consult Mbeki
By XOLANI XUNDUJohannesburg – IN a move that could signal a new chapter in relations between President Thabo Mbeki and official opposition leader Tony Leon, the ANC has called on the DA to seek audience with Mr Mbeki if it wants to understand ANC policies....
Volunteer system to fight metro crime
By Max Matavire Municipal Reporter
THE metro council plans to involve the community in fighting crime by introducing a system of volunteers....
Mhlaba honoured for 50 years service
Tomorrow,
South African Communist Party (SACP) veteran Ray Mhlaba will be awarded the party’s
highest honour, the Moses Kotane Award, named after the man who served as general
secretary of the party from 1939 until his death in 1978. The award will be presented
to Mr Mhlaba in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to both the struggle
for national liberation and socialism”. The first recipients in 1988 were Brian
Bunting and Billy Nair. Political Correspondent Patrick
Cull spoke to Mr Mhlaba about the nearly 50 years he has been a member of
the SACP....
Suspended Zama head is Yengeni benefactor
By Angela Quintal
Cape Town – Suspended Zama chief executive officer Mcebisi Mlonzi has been named by former ANC chief whip Tony Yengeni as his main benefactor in this year’s register of members’ interests in Parliament....
No agreement to allow SA farmers back – government
Cape Town – South Africa’s High Commissioner in Harare, Jerry Ndou, yesterday “categorically” denied the existence of any agreement between the South African and Zimbabwean governments to allow South African farmers back onto their land in Zimbabwe....
Actions of Zim regime ‘undermining Nepad’
Johannesburg – The SA Chamber of Business deplored the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe and considered the actions of the Zimbabwe government to be challenging the founding principles of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, Kevin Wakeford, chief executive of Sacob, said here yesterday....
Zim leader ‘like Stalin’
Cape Town – Nobel laureate and Northern Ireland politician David Trimble drew parallels last night between the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin in the 1930s and Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe....
Mugabe denies 'hunger crisis'
Harare – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe yesterday denied that his country’s controversial seizures of white- owned farms had contributed to the massive hunger crisis that threatens half his people with starvation....
