Charges against triple murder accused listed and other brief reports
* Wassim Haider Agha and Bonginkosi David Ndlovu were indicted to strand trial yesterday in the Durban High Court on three charges of murder, one of robbery and one of conspiracy to commit murder. The trial has been set down to run from April 18 to May 3. The two are accused of murdering Aghas common-law wife, Anisa Sukan, their baby daughter, Zil Haider, and Sukans father, Anand Sukan, at their family home in Reservoir Hills in March last year. The Mercury
* A woman who practised illegally as a medical doctor in the Eastern Cape has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Bertha Lucwaba, of Butterworth pleaded guilty to practising as a medical doctor under the name of Dr Goosen. She had been practising for over a year before she was arrested. The court heard that she operated in the rural areas of Qumbu, Butterworth and Nqamakhwe and charged her patients R95 each for consultation. News24 * Two men found guilty of what a Pietermaritzburg High Court judge termed a despicable murder of a man who was stabbed 18 times and robbed of his drivers licence, a pair of shoes and R10 cash, were jailed for life yesterday. The victim, Sundressen Pillay (56), was set upon by Rishi Rambridge and Ashraj Ace Mohamed and a companion and was assaulted, stabbed and kicked him until he died. In addition to the life sentence, Rambridge was sentenced to four years imprisonment and Mohamed to nine years imprisonment for robbery. The Mercury * EU Foreign Ministers had agreed to extend sanctions, including an arms embargo, against Zimbabwe for another year, they said after a meeting in Brussels yesterday. The ministers would review the decision, the fourth year in a row of EU sanctions, after legislative elections in the country next month. Business Report * A German man extradited from Britain to SA to stand trial on charges of fraud and the indecent assault of a 13-year-old Pretoria boy in the mid 90s has not appeared in court yet because he has been hospitalised with high blood pressure. Manfred Josef Zachel was arrested by the Scorpions at the Johannesburg International Airport on Sunday. The case has been postponed to March 14. SABC News * A Port Elizabeth court has given an HIV-positive mother of two a five-year suspended sentence for killing her abusive husband. Yolelwa Mathayo (31) had pleaded guilty to culpable homicide. The Herald * Terence Lucas (41), the bodyguard of former Eastern Cape Safety and Security Minister Dennis Neer, has been awarded a R1.5m damages claim against the Road Accident Fund in the Port Elizabeth High Court. The Herald