Another award for champion Bizos, and other brief reports...

* A Sandton employer who dismissed his domestic worker – allegedly because she was HIV-positive – has agreed to pay her R15 000 as part of a settlement agreement reached with the Labour Court. The worker claimed she was unfairly dismissed because of her HIV status. – Business Day * South Africans declared victims of human rights violations during the apartheid era have been urged to contact the Department of Justice to claim reparations. There are 1 893 victims who have yet to claim their R30 000 each in reparations. – News24 * Taiwan’s High Court will rule tomorrow on an opposition petition to overturn March’s presidential election amid a warning from an academic that the decision may spark a riot. Opposition parties asked the court to void the election, which their candidate, lost to President Chen Shui-bian by 30 000 of 13 million votes cast. – Business Day