Ruling
in challenge to traditional leadership - 30 October
Judgment is to be handed down today in a landmark challenge by four rural
communities that has implications for an estimated 21-million people
living under traditional leadership. The North Gauteng High Court in
Pretoria has been asked to find parts of the Traditional
Leadership and Governance Framework Act, and the whole of the Communal
Land Rights Act, to be unconstitutional. The communities argue that
the laws give traditional leaders undemocratic and unprecedented powers.
They say the acts also undermine land rights under customary law and
gender equity, and introduce a tier of government not recognised by the
constitution. The case was argued last year. - Business
Day website
Jurie
Els sex trial begins next week - 28 October
Afrikaans singer Jurie Els will hear today if he is to get access to the
diaries of the young singer Robbie Klay, who alleges Els had sexually
molested him as a child. Els is to go on trial in the North Gauteng High
Court on Monday on two charges of indecently assaulting Klay and a charge
of soliciting Klay to commit indecent acts while he was under the age of
16. Counsel for Klay, Danie Dorfling, yesterday applied before Acting
Judge Willie van Zyl for an order to force the State to provide his client
with access to among others Klay’s diaries, the computer of Klay’s
girlfriend and the investigating diary. - Citizen
website
Afrikaans
singer to read accuser’s diary - 29 October
Afrikaans singer Jurie Els has been granted permission to read the
diaries of fellow performer Robbie Klay who accused him of molesting him
for several years. - Eye
Witness News website