.com | SA should consider conjugal visits in prison:
.com | SA should consider conjugal visits in prison:
The recent photos circulated showing strippers entertaining convicts inside the Johannesburg Prison has naturally aroused necessary shock from the ordinary members of the public and social media platforms. The exposure led some South Africans to ask fundamental questions about the security of the country when such criminal and dastardly acts take place in what is supposed to be maximum security prison.
CIVICUS in Pacific first:
USPSA general secretary Tieri Bulivou and PIANGO's Emele Duituturaga sign the MOU in Suva today while Amy Taylor of CIVICUS World Alliance looks on. Picture: ELIKI NUKUTABU Update: 4:12PM CIVICUS will for the first time in its 13-year history of bringing together international civil society organisation leaders, finally come to the Pacific region when it stages its annual conference at the University of the South Pacific in December.
Dad jailed for raping, impregnating daughter:
The Johannesburg Regional Court has sentenced a 47-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping his biological daughter, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday. NPA spokesperson, Phindi Mjonondwane, said in a statement that the man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child, had been charged with one count of rape, alternative incest, one count of display of child pornography, as well as sexual grooming of a child.
Swedish al-Qaeda hostage Johan Gustafsson home and reunited with family:
Johan Gustafsson, who was kidnapped by al-Qaeda in Mali in 2011, has returned home after more than five years in captivity, his family and the Swedish government confirmed on Monday. “I'm very pleased to announce that Johan has today been able to return to Sweden and be reunited with his family,” Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom told reporters late on Monday as she showed a picture of Gustafsson surrounded by his family after he arrived home.
Kofi Asamoah lied; he stole my movie – – Skeem’ director:
The credibility of Ghanaian film director, Kofi Asamoah, has been challenged after his public claim that he was given permission to remake a 2011 South African film, 'Skeem', has been denied by the producer of the movie. Kofi Asamoah during a live interview on Pundits, an entertainment talk show on GHOne TV, was very categorical that he had the permission of Tim Greene, a Johannesburg film director, to produce a duplication of the latter's film, 'Skeem', but Tim Greene has insisted he has never given such permission to the Ghanaian producer “A Ghanaian journalist looked me up on Facebook to ask if I knew about the movie 'John & John'.
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