Priest accused of repeated rape and other brief reports
Publish date: 07 February 2006
Issue Number: 1516
Diary: Legalbrief Today
Category: Corruption
* A priest, who has been accused of repeatedly raping a young girl in his church, says God told him to do so. The girl, who is 16, is now six months pregnant. The priest is being tried in Tzaneen Regional Court and is out on bail of R1 000 until he appears again on March 16. News24
* The SA Human Rights Commission expects to finish its probe into an allegedly racist advertorial by the Minority Front\'s leader Amichand Rajbansi by next week. eThekwini Mayor Obed Mlaba lodged a complaint with the Commission\'s KwaZulu-Natal office last month regarding the advertorial published in the Chatsworth Tabloid and circulated in Chatsworth, Durban. The advertorial was published in the name of Rajbansi. IoL * A director of a Port Elizabeth law firm has appeared in the Magistrates Court on charges of indecently assaulting a 10-year-old girl. He was not asked to plead and no evidence was led before he was released on warning. The case was postponed to March 28. The Herald * The trial of five people accused of killing six-month-old Jordan-Leigh Norton last year was postponed yesterday because one of the counsel was indisposed. News24 * The Johannesburg High Court last week sentenced Vernon Douglas (24) and Ernest Viljoen (23) to 35 years each for murdering and hijacking Deon de Villiers in Boksburg two years ago. SABC News * The East London High Court has jailed Archbishop Yokomile Mzini (62), of the Zion Apostolic Church of Christ, for 15 years for shooting dead his wife\'s suspected lover, Bishop Makhosonke Nxam (59), in 2003. Daily Dispatch * Amnesty International has urged the UK Government to intervene on behalf of nine British residents being held without trial at the US Guantánamo Bay detention centre in Cuba. The Guardian