Pan African Parliament adopts 94 rules to guide procedures, and other reports ...
* The Pan African Parliament, sitting in the Midrand, has adopted 94 rules which will guide its procedures. It will now deal with issues on its agenda, including the African Unions mission and vision, the Darfur conflict and Nepads Peer Review Mechanism. [red] SABC News[/red]
* The SAPS has released its annual report, revealing that more than a million people were arrested in SA in the past financial year almost half of them for serious and violent crimes. [red] The Herald [/red] * The National Director of Public Prosecutions has applied to the Port Elizabeth High Court for a restraining order preventing former Eastern Cape Correctional Services Commissioner, Raphepheng Mataka, from disposing of his assets and force him to disclose any other assets authorities might not have taken stock of. Mataka is to go on trial in March next year on fraud charges in connection with false motor-vehicle expense claims. [red] The Herald [/red] * The Athlone and Cape Town Magistrates Courts have fined two Egyptian men, El Husseini El-Awad El-Sayed (31) and Abou El-Fetouh Abou Abdel Elwekil (42), R2 500 each after they pleaded guilty in two separate trials to marriage fraud. The men married Cape Town women to improve their chances of getting permanent residence in SA. [red] Cape Argus [/red]