Donovan Moodley case postponed, and other brief reports

* The Johannesburg High Court has jailed bank consultant Juanita Coetzee to life and 14 years in jail for the murder of her husband. Judge Joop Labuschagne said that Coetzee was not a battered wife, as claimed, but a manipulative woman who had her former husband killed to inherit over R1m. – IoL * The Bronkhorstspruit Magistrates\' Court has released Sarah van Rooyen, who is accused of stealing her friend\'s winning R23.7m lottery ticket, on free bail. The case has been postponed to January 17 next year. – SABC News * Edward Kekana, who has been accused of killing three men in a road rage incident on July 31, will stand trial in the Johannesburg High Court on August 25, next year. – News24 * Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was briefly detained and his passport confiscated after returning to Harare on Saturday following a month-long tour of Africa and Europe. He was later released, although it was unclear why he was held. – Sunday Times * The Durban Magistrates\' Court has granted bail of R15 000 to Chief Director of Human Resources in the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department, Manqoba Victor Gumede, who is accused of receiving payments of up to R800 000 from entities which secured contracts to provide services to the department. – News24 * Britain\'s Barclays PLC has filed a formal application with the banking regulator and competition authorities for approval of a formal offer for a majority stake in SA\'s Absa Bank. – SABC News * Three youths, allegedly members of a Kwazakhele gang that \'specialises\' in attacking mothers and their daughters in their beds and raping them, have appeared in the New Brighton Magistrates\' Court. However, their bail application will be heard only on December 9. – The Herald * State pathologists, confronted with up to four autopsies each day, are struggling to keep up with the demand. If a person is suspected of having died as a result of unnatural causes, the law requires that a medico-legal post-mortem be done at a laboratory. – Pretoria News *The Durban High Court will be hearing an application today by Waseem Haider Agha, accused of murdering his baby daughter, wife and her father, to set aside a warrant ordering his detention at Umzinto Prison on the South Coast, and be transferred to Westville Prison. Agha was moved to Umzinto after being caught with a cellphone in Westville Prison. – Sunday Times