Whistle-blower's redeployment inadequate - group

                                                                                                      Richard Mdluli

Johannesburg - Solidarity wants a contempt of court order against the police for failing to correctly redeploy a whistle-blower demoted by ex-crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli. "The labour court will hear the application on the 17th of October," Solidarity's head of fair labour practice Dirk Groenewald said.

Mdluli demoted Colonel Kobus Roos from his position as head of internal audit, to the inspectorate and evaluation division of the unit. This was after he had exposed corruption in the crime intelligence unit, according to Solidarity, which successfully fought his redeployment in court.

Groenewald said the police did not abide by the court order and that was why it had lodged an application for an order of contempt of court.

Pistorius witness felt 'attacked' on stand

Pretoria - Annette Stipp, one of the prosecution's witnesses in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, said being questioned on the stand felt like a personal attack, The Times reported on Monday.

"We feel [like we were] trampled by a bus," she reportedly said in an interview for a research paper on the trauma of being a witness in a criminal trial.

She said Pistorius's lawyer Barry Roux's presentation of his heads of argument earlier this month was harrowing. He described Stipp and her husband's testimony as "exaggerated and contradictory".

"You feel like you are being attacked personally. Your integrity is questioned. We felt that [we] were being attacked as liars." Stipp said.

Mpuma mom jailed for stabbing friend to death

 

Mbombela - An Mpumalanga mother who stabbed and killed her mentally ill friend was jailed for 10 years by the Nelspruit Regional Court on Monday.

Lungile Precious Malibe, 23, from KaNyamazane near Mbombela, was arrested last March after she was accused of murdering her best friend, Kedibone Mohlala, 24, by stabbing her five times with a knife.

Malibe, a mother of a 4-month-old baby, pleaded guilty to the charge, saying she acted in self-defence after Mohlala attacked her with a knife. The court heard the fight started after Mohlala demanded a bag containing her clothes and ID which she claimed she left at Malibe's home.

2 appear for Eastern Cape rape

 

Johannesburg - Two men accused of raping a woman in Dutywa appeared in the town's magistrate's court on Monday, Eastern Cape police said.

The matter was postponed to 5 September for a formal bail application, police spokesperson Jackson Manatha said. The pair would remain in police custody.

The men, aged 18 and 27, were arrested on Saturday night. A group of five men approached the woman and her boyfriend as they were walking in Dutywa town around 23:00 on Saturday.

They allegedly demanded money and cellphones from the couple.

"When they could not get anything, the boyfriend was severely beaten by the suspects and he ran, leaving his girlfriend behind," Manatha said.

He spotted a patrolling police car and alerted officers to the attack.

"The second suspect was found still raping the woman whilst the first suspect who raped the woman was still at the scene," Manatha said.

Mpuma nurse testifies in vigilante case

Mbombela - An Mpumalanga nurse testified in the Nelspruit Regional Court on Monday against an ex-municipal manager implicated in a vigilante murder.

Delfina Ndlovu, a nurse at Barberton General Hospital, was testifying in the murder trial of former Mbombela local municipality manager Bruno Vilane, 47.

Vilane is accused along with his son Nhlanhla Vilane, 23, Andile Lawrence Masuku, 20, Zwelithini Welcome Tsela, 22, and Makusile Mahlangu, 29.