North West man appears for girlfriend's murder

Johannesburg - A man appeared in the Bafokeng Magistrate's Court for allegedly killing his girlfriend, North West police said on Tuesday.

The case against Daniel Boikanyo, 49, was postponed on Monday to 25 August for further investigation, Colonel Sabata Mokgwabone said.

Marikana causes need second inquiry - Mpofu

                                                                                Dali Mpofu 

Pretoria - It would be unfeasible for the Farlam Commission of Inquiry to embark on a second phase probing the 2012 Marikana unrest, a lawyer said on Tuesday.

"If justice is to be done to the issue of the underlying causes, then a separate and different inquiry must be done," Dali Mpofu, who represents hundreds of injured and arrested Lonmin miners, told the inquiry's public hearings in Pretoria.

"A commission that is not time-bound and adversarial and dominated by lawyers," he said.

"The weakness of the present inquiry is that some of the 'witnesses', like Cecil John Rhodes, or whoever started the mining industry, cannot be called. Lonmin cannot answer for them."

Struggling Liberia creates 'plague villages' in Ebola epicenter

Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia August 18, 2014.

 To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa, Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicenter of the virus, evoking the "plague villages" of medieval Europe that were shut off from the outside world.

With few food and medical supplies getting in, many abandoned villagers face a stark choice: stay where they are and risk death or skip quarantine, spreading the infection further in a country ill-equipped to cope.

In Boya, in northern Liberia's Lofa County, Joseph Gbembo, who caught Ebola and survived, says he is struggling to raise 10 children under five years old and support five widows after nine members of his family were killed by the virus.

Impeachment: Nasarawa Assembly petitions NJC, suspends member

Nasarawa State House of Assembly has urged the National Judicial Council (NJC) to investigate the state Chief Judge, Justice Umaru Dikko, for allegedly conniving with the executive in violating the 1999 Constitution as amended.

This followed a resolution passed by the House in a matter of public interest brought before it by the member representing Udege/Loko, Muhammad Baba Ibaku and seconded by Muhammad Okpede (Doma North)

The lawmakers described the alleged action of the Chief Judge in the impeachment saga as a total violation of Section 188(5) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), urging the NJC to investigate and sanction him to serve as a deterrent to other judges in the country.

SA one of the most unequal societies - Madonsela

                                                                                              Thuli Madonsela 

Johannesburg - South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said.

In a speech delivered at the University of Stellenbosch on Saturday, Madonsela said this was despite the constitutional promises which include the substantive notion of equality.

"Compounding the situation is that poverty and unemployment have worsened and also the fact that, that too follows the contours of racial, gender and other forms of structural inequality or discrimination."