Appeal
on car crash ruling - 30 June
The KwaZulu-Natal department of transport is to appeal against a
Pietermaritzburg high court ruling that it must pay 70 percent of
R30million damages to an Australian injured on the Sani Pass road
in March 2005.
This follows an order by Judge Sharmaine Balton lasts week that
MEC Bheki Cele and his department must pay electrician Murray
Eastman, who was left a paraplegic by an accident. - Sowetan
website
Shembe
house torched : Nazareth faction leader fears for his life after
attack - 30 June
Tensions over the leadership of the Nazareth Baptist Church took a
new twist when a house belonging to Nkosi Sizwe Mudliwamafa Shembe
of the Ginyezinye faction was gutted by a fire on Friday.
Ginyezinye faction spokesperson Banga Thusi said women who were
sleeping in the house had earlier conducted a prayer service in
the house after they were barred from worshipping at the Shembe
Ekuphakameni headquarters under the leadership of Prophet Vukile
Shembe. - Sowetan
website
See also
:
Sizwe
is now Shembe leader - 18 June
Sowetan
website
[InfoUpdate 12 of 2009]
'Body
was dumped and burnt' - 26 June
A Pietermaritzburg couple charged with the murder of a man who
fathered the wife's child, are to stand trial in the
Pietermaritzburg High Court from October 12. The pair, Amith
Sewkarran, 26, and Khalisha Rajcoomar, 23, allegedly made
Rajcoomar's former lover Sundesh Poorun drunk, strangled him, took
his body to a dump site and burned it in February. They remain in
custody. - IOL
website
Woman
accused of planning murder - 1 July
A Durban woman who allegedly had her daughter-in-law killed in
Pietermaritzburg, for fear that she would divorce her son and
prevent her from seeing her two grandchildren, was on Tuesday
served with an indictment. Romila Singh would stand trial in the
Pietermaritzburg High Court in November for the murder of Fiona
Khader on February 24. - IOL
website