AB Xuma Primary School sex abuse: Justice system let us down, say parents: Parents of children who were affected by an alleged sexual abuse scandal at the AB Xuma Primary School say they now fear for their children’s safety after Johannes Molefe was acquitted on all charges. ……
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
KZN ANC set to announce candidates for Parly, provincial legislature: Delegates had to nominate 80 names for the provincial legislature and also select 120 people to head to the National Assembly. ……
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Wrong, racist to criminalise land occupation, says Julius Malema’s lawyer: The party says that the Riotous Assemblies and Trespass Acts are laws which were initially designed by the apartheid government to criminalise black people. ……
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
Mixed reaction to CPUT guards’ scuffle with ‘unvetted’ lensmen: Cape Town – The Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) says the two people identified as photographers involved in a scuffle with security guards were warned to stop taking pictures before the incident. In a video doing the rounds on social media, members of CPUT security are seen scuffling with two men, believed…
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
Victim of serial rapist labelled a ‘loose child’: Durban – AN 18-year-old rape survivor says she could not play with other children and was treated like an outcast for two years when people in her community heard about the incident. Fifteen and a virgin at the time of the incident, she was labelled a “loose child” and a liar. “People said I was a liar. They accused me of sleeping around and of…
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KZN health MEC labelled as ‘untrustworthy’ amid mortuary go-slow: Durban – Bereaved families waiting for the bodies of relatives to be released have labelled Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo as “untrustworthy” after his promise to address the mortuary strike fell flat on Tuesday. The grieving families were sitting in the scorching sun outside Durban’s Gale Street mortuary, waiting for an update on their dead relatives bodies. The Lembede and Nciki families said they were scheduled to hold funerals on Saturday, but had to postpone the burials due to the ongoing forensic pathology strike. More families were sitting…
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CemAir grounded over safety concerns: Cape Town – CemAir airline faces losing its air operating certificate (AOC) should it not provide the SA Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) with valid reasons explaining why the certificate should not be revoked by 1.30pm today. According to SACAA inspectors, following a permit renewal audit, the airline allegedly contravened the Civil Aviation Act and five other civil aviation regulations. The Johannesburg-based airline, operating flights between Cape Town and Plettenberg Bay, as well as Cape Town and Hoedspruit, could neither produce nor…
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
Incitement charges against Julius Malema to be dropped, says Shivambu: Johannesburg – The charges of incitement under the notorious Riotous Assemblies Act in post-apartheid South Africa against EFF leader Julius Malema will soon be dropped. This is according to EFF deputy leader Floyd Shivambu after the conclusion of Malema’s application in the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday to declare Section 18 (2) (b) of the Riotous Assemblies Act unconstitutional and unlawful. Shivambu said his party’s legal representative…
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Urban study awaited before demolition ruling on Deer Park Café: Cape Town – An urban study addressing the social and community amenity value of the Deer Park Café site is among the information required by Heritage Western Cape (HWC) before it can make a decision on the demolition application. Members of the Vredehoek community are fighting against the demolition of the…
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Makhura: ‘Gauteng ANC’s list conference will not see violence’: Gauteng African National Congress (ANC) chair David Makhura says the list of people the province wants to see deployed to the provincial and national legislatures will be inclusive and not factional. ……
Source: WN.com – Southafrica News
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