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Men sentenced for selling body parts, and other brief reports

Publish date: 17 November 2004
Issue Number: 1219
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: Corruption

* The Free State High Court has jailed Morgan Booysen for 35 years and Joshua Mphai for 27 years for murdering a man and for selling body parts. – IoL

* Judgment on the bail application of two suspected muti killers of a 10-year-old Limpopo boy has been postponed to November 29 at the Seshego Magistrates\' Court. The magistrate postponed the hearings because of his ill-health. – SABC News * Randburg Magistrate Deon Pool has described as \'ridiculous\' the number of cases involving Rivonia nightclubs coming before his court. \'I\'m tired of steroid-induced, violent crowd control,\' he said while granting R10 000 bail to Ashley Grinder, who has been charged with assaulting a student, who is in serious condition in hospital, at one of the clubs. – News24 * Leading African musician, Congolese singer Papa Wemba (55), was found guilty yesterday of smuggling illegal immigrants into France by disguising them as members of his band, but walked away free because he had already spent four months in jail. – The Mercury * Aletta Elliot (44), the woman who drove from Durban to Johannesburg with her husband\'s dead lover in the boot of her car, has been transferred to Durban\'s Westville Prison. Elliot will appear in the Pinetown Magistrates\' Court on Friday. – The Mercury * Danville Park Girls\' High School in Durban has reacted after receiving court papers sent to it by lawyers of an 18-year-old pupil who is suing the school after it allegedly arranged for her to have a secret abortion. The principal said they had acted in the \'best interests\' of the matric pupil. – The Mercury * Three Kosovo Albanians accused of committing war crimes during the Kosovo conflict are going on trial in the International War Crimes tribunal. The former commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army deny being responsible for the murder and torture of civilians in the KLA\'s Lapushnik prison camp in 1998. – BBC News

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