Carl Pistorious, brother to murder-accused paralympian, Oscar, is facing a charge of culpable homicide, related to a 2008 road accident, in which a woman motorcyclist lost her life. Family lawyer, Kenny
Oldwage said the charges were at some stage withdrawn by the State, but later reinstated by the Deputy Public Prosecutor at the National Prosecuting Authority.
Displaced arrested in Angola
Angolan police earlier this week arrested dozens of people who were victims of forced eviction and the demolition of their homes in early February, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The security forces barred a delegation of the main opposition party,
National Union for the Total
Independence of Angola, from meeting with and providing assistance to the community, and beat up some of the delegates.
No end to child marriages
Swaziland’s traditional leaders recently declared that the outlawing of child marriages would not stand its ground, arguing that such unions were acceptable under customary law. This cut short the relief felt by health officials and activists at the apparent outlawing of child marriages. Traditional leaders were not consulted when royal counsellors to King Mswati III pledged to review the Child Protection and
Welfare Act of 2012.
Guebuza optimistic
Mozambique’s President Armando Guebuza pledged the SADC’s continued efforts to find a sustainable solution to the crisis in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. Guebuza, who is the current chairperson of SADC, said this in Addis Ababa, at the signing of an agreement on the DRC, aimed at ending all outside interference in the DRC’s internal affairs.
PF accused of violence
Zambia’s opposition National Restoration Party, President Elias Chipimo, recently accused the ruling Patriotic Front of having unleashed a wave of violence in
Livingstone and Mpongwe to intimidate its opponents as it desperately bids for votes. Chipimo said President Michael Sata’s had already outlived its usefulness in Zambian politics.
Swazi budgets against IMF
Swaziland’s government put itself on a collision course with the International Monetary Fund, after announcing extra spending on public service salaries and tax cuts for workers and companies recently. The decision announced by Swazi Finance Minister Majozi Sithole in his budget speech last Friday also put the kingdom at odds with global banks which it must rely on for loans.
Workers threaten airport
Striking civil servants in Malawi recently threatened to close the country’s main airport in the capital, Lilongwe if government did not respond positively to their demands. The workers were demanding a 65 per cent wage increase to oppose the inflation rate, after the devaluation of the nation’s currency.
Police U-turn on
mini-skirts
Namibia’s Police Inspector
General, Sebastian Ndeitunga, made a dramatic U-turn this week, claiming he was misquoted in the media over his alleged threat to have any woman found wearing “short and revealing” mini-skirts arrested. He claimed the reporter changed the story to suit his own motives, adding he could not have said what he knew would interfere with women’s constitutional rights.
Rape shocks ANC
SA’s ruling African National
Congress said it was shocked and numbed by the growing rate of rape and other violent crimes against women in the country. It called on its structures to help police in the fight against the violation of women. It also called on men to take a stand against the “beastly behaviour”.
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