Seaman in court over serial rapes in Western Cape and other brief reports

* Black Management Forum deputy president Jimmy Manyi has been named to succeed Mapule Ramashala as chair of the Commission for Employment Equity, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said yesterday. The body’s mandate is to advise the minister on employment equity law. – Business Day * Documents relating to a security tender awarded in Cape Town were seized in a raid on the offices of the city\'s mayor yesterday afternoon, a spokesperson for the City of Cape Town said. Mandla Tyala said the raid on the offices of Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo was ordered by Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool. – News24 * A Moscow woman is seeking more than $32 000 in compensation from fast food multinational McDonald’s after she was burnt by coffee bought at one of its outlets, her lawyer said yesterday. Olga Kuzentsova originally sought $3 500 but raised her claim after the trial dragged on for a year. – Business Day * The Israeli Justice Ministry indicted President Ariel Sharon’s son Omri this week in a campaign funding scandal. – Business Day * The fraud trial of William Nkuna was postponed in the Pretoria Regional Court yesterday, as Nkuna\'s lawyer was ill. Nkuna (42) is also accused of murdering missing constable Francis Rasuge. The Hammanskraal resident is accused of fraud in an application to purchase a vehicle in Pretoria last year. – News24 * The East London Magistrates’ Court has postponed to August 23 the sentencing of Annerine Stratford-Tuke (47) and her son Michael Firth (20) who were convicted seven months ago of the attempted murder in 2002 of Ross Muller (31), who was seeing Stratford-Tuke’s daughter at the time. – Daily Dispatch * The Botswana Court of Appeal in Lobatse yesterday rejected Australian Professor Kenneth Good\'s appeal against his deportation order. Botswana President Festus Mogae signed an order to expel Good, a fierce critic of the government, from the country in February this year. – SABC News