Satawu ordered to end its strike, and other brief reports ...
* The Johannesburg Labour Court has ordered the SA Transport and Allied Workers\' Union (Satawu) to end its strike. It granted interdicts brought by security services employers to declare Satawu\'s strike unprotected and restrain members from unlawful activities. The employers signed a pay deal with 14 other unions on Saturday, but Satawu turned down the 8% wage increase offer, demanding 11%. SABC News
* The private life and most intimate details of controversial Judge Edwin Cameron, the man who manages to be a judge, lobbyist and forerunner in the fight against HIV/AIDS, will be revealed in a tell-all documentary on SABC3 tonight. The Mercury * A verdict at the Old Bailey this week meant that English couple, Richard and Gloria Taylor, have had to sit through two trials and see seven men accused of killing their son, Damilola Taylor, walk free. This week two teenagers, aged 17 and 18, who were 12 and 13 at the time of the attack, were cleared of assaulting Damilola with intent to rob. The judge discharged jurors when they failed to reach verdicts on whether the pair were guilty of manslaughter. The Independent * The German Government can no longer charge citizens kidnapped abroad for the cost of their release, a Berlin court has ruled. In a test case won by Reinhilt Weigel, a German nurse, the government did not have the right to charge her 12 640 for securing her release from weeks of captivity in 2003 at the hands of leftwing Colombian militants, the court said. The Foreign Ministry had charged her half the costs of negotiations leading to her release, and of the helicopter trip that brought her and a Spanish fellow hostage to safety. Financial Times