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Hardly a day after apologising for the killings of innocent people during Thursday’s protests over the kombi ban and illegal vending in the city, police were yesterday back in the public spotlight after they were accused of severely assaulting and torturing suspects in their custody.
Hopewell Chin’ono – What we have seen in the past two weeks is a public contestation around the constitution and the ability or lack thereof to respect it, let alone to understand it. As someone said elsewhere, lawyers speak legalese only in court. When they go into politics, they can’t remember the law. The constitution cannot understand or explain the language of power.
“Don’t party and tell,” might be the new Blue Roof motto.
The titanic MDC leadership battle now appears to be effectively over, bar the shouting, after the country’s main opposition alliance unanimously endorsed Nelson Chamisa as its presidential candidate for this year’s harmonised national elections.
Twelve police officers have been killed since the start of the year.
The leader of the anti- Indian lobby group Injenje Yaba Nguni, has threatened to set alight film-maker Anant Singh’s offices if his new show portrayed racial tensions between Indians and Africans as isolated incidents.
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula on Saturday shut down a controversial church which is believed to have harboured about 20 heavily armed criminals who were involved in the deadly shooting of police in the Eastern Cape town of Ngcobo on Wednesday.
China’s governing Communist Party has proposed removing a clause in the constitution which limits presidencies to two five-year terms.
Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor has died of a heart attack, her family says. She was 54.
The National Railways of Zimbabwe has engaged experts from South Africa to train its enginemen as part of a framework agreement under the $400 million recapitalisation programme.