Labour supports equity act prosecutions, and other brief reports

* More than 8 000 companies have complied with the October 1 deadline to submit employment equity reports. – Business Report * A man under investigation for the murder of a woman, whose body parts were found cooking in a pot near Eshowe in KwaZulu-Natal, died of cardiac arrest, police said yesterday. – IoL * The SABC has been fined R15 000 for screening the beheading of an American in Iraq last month. The Broadcasting Complaints Commission found the ‘explicit’ video footage of Eugene Armstrong\'s beheading impaired viewers\' dignity. – News24 * A priest appeared in Clocolan Magistrates’ Court on Monday on six charges of rape and one of indecent assault. The hearing was postponed to October 26 for a bail application. – News24 * Former TRC commissioner Dumisa Ntsebeza has been appointed head of a technical team that will advise the UN’s International Commission of Inquiry on the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Ntsebeza was one of five judicial officials selected from five countries, which include SA, Italy, Egypt, Peru, and Pakistan. – SABC News * A 40-year-old Cape Town man and his female co-accused, also aged 40, are to appear in the Wynberg Sexual Offences Court on October 22 in connection with a rape that took place more than 20 years ago. The pair’s arrest follows the conviction in the same court of cousins Mark Cornick and Leonard Kinnear for the rape of a 14-year-old girl, who is now aged 35. – Cape Times