Worldcom CE guilty of accounting scandal and other brief reports

* The Labour Court has granted the country\'s oldest journalists\' union, the SA Union of Journalists, an order allowing its liquidation. The union, founded in the 1920s, had in recent years become dysfunctional, although it still had trust funds with considerable assets. – News24 * Two men, Kasavan Poonsammy (23) and Jonathan Felix (21), have pleaded not guilty in the Port Elizabeth High Court where they have gone on trial for the robbery and murder of 72-year-old former boxer Rufus Coetzee in April last year. – The Herald * The Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court has jailed Thabo Thelingoane (38) for an effective three years for attempting to defraud a Jeffreys Bay hotel owner of R9m. Thelingoane had attempted to purchase the Savoy Hotel through the presentation of false bank statements. – The Herald * A 15-year-old rape victim from Ulundi, who was expected to testify in court, has been shot dead along with her mother and a male visitor in their northern KwaZulu-Natal home. – The Herald