Prosecutors could face disciplinary action and other brief reports
* Eastern Cape Director of Public Prosecution, Lungi Mhlati, has warned prosecutors in a letter that they could face disciplinary action after they abandoned the courts on Tuesday and held an hour-long union meeting to discuss the wage dispute. The Herald
* A man has appeared in a court in Daniëlskuil, in the Northern Cape, in connection with the rape of a 104-year-old woman in her home on Wednesday. The case has been postponed to the June 4. SABC News * Judge Willie Hartzenberg has ordered Mpumalanga\'s Minister of Health to pay R90 000 to a one-year-old boy who lost the fingers on his left hand after a nurse forgot to remove an elastic band that had been wrapped around his arm. According to affidavits, Ntando Jedidiya Matikwane, who is a hydrocephalic, also stands to lose his left arm. Beeld * The Atteridgeville-Saulsville Concerned Residents Association says it is preparing to sue either the government or Earthlife Africa, whichever is in the wrong, over claims of radioactivity at a nuclear instrument calibration site in Broederstroom. Pretoria News * A Military Court judge in the US has declared the court-martial of Private Lynndie England, accused of abusing naked Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison, a mistrial. Englands guilty plea over testimony by the convicted ringleader of the scandal and father of her baby was rejected and the case referred back to an army commander at Fort Hood for re-examination. The New York Times