Focus on human rights in Africa, and other brief reports

* A Cape Town man is suing the Western Cape MEC for education, a school principal, a teacher and a police inspector for R400 000 in the High Court after his 13-year-old son was falsely accused of theft at a school, was arrested and kept in a blood-stained jail cell for hours. – Die Burger * The Pretoria North Magistrates\' Court has granted R1 000 bail to a 40-year-old woman who is facing charges of abusing two children, aged six and two, in her care. The case was postponed to December 8 for further investigation. – IoL * The Durban High Court has adjourned until December 15 the battle between residents and the eThekwini (Durban) Municipality over security huts in suburbs. – The Mercury * Nadia Green, who was charged with child abandonment after she confessed to being the mother of the child she said she had rescued from a drain, was released on a warning after appearing in the Durban Magistrates\' Court. The Director of Public Prosecutions will decide tomorrow whether to prosecute. – The Mercury * Amien Andrews, a Cape Town brothel owner, has been sentenced to an effective 20 years in prison in the Wynberg Regional Court for kidnapping and raping two under-aged girls. Adiel Cloete, his co-accused, was sentenced to an effective 12 years in prison. – SABC News * The Pretoria High Court has dismissed a claim by three anglers who said they were entitled to the R1m prize money in a fishing competition. The judge said the plaintiffs had failed to refute the statements made by the respondent, which included that the rules of the competition could change at any given time. – Pretoria News * The Port Elizabeth High Court has begun hearing evidence in the multi-million-rand Kangela land scandal deal. Two Addo citrus farmers are suing Norman Benjamin for a portion of the massive profit he is believed to have made in the Kangela black empowerment deal which was funded by the Bhisho government. – The Herald * A Zimbabwean man who denigrated President Robert Mugabe by shouting subversive statements, including that \'Mugabe is a dictator who rules by the sword\', on board a commuter omnibus has been sentenced to eight months in prison. The sentence was suspended based on certain conditions being met. – The Herald (Zimbabwe)