Prince gets green light for second marriage and other brief reports
* Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and Camilla Parker-Bowles received the all clear for their wedding next month after all 11 formal legal objections against their union were dismissed. Len Cook, Registrar-General for England and Wales, said he was satisfied that none of these objections should obstruct the issue of a certificate for the pair to marry at Windsor town hall, west of London, on April 8. IoL
* Twenty-six-year-old Mpho Litau has gone on trial in the Johannesburg High Court where he is facing 54 charges, including rape, robbery and kidnapping, in connection with a spate of attacks on schoolgirls and young women in Soweto between January 2003 and February last year. The Star * John Malula (53) has gone on trial in the Johannesburg High Court where he is accused of murdering his 20-year-old daughter by spiking her cooldrink with Two Step, an agricultural chemical called Aldicarb, meant for spraying potatoes and killing rats, on April 25, 2003. Malula has pleaded not guilty. IoL