Gender debacle made Caster stronger


London, England – Caster Semenya says the gender testing debacle that dogged her early international career has made her stronger for challenges such as the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Semenya was speaking ahead of the opening ceremony where she will lead out the South African team as the flag bearer.

“I am not going to worry about these gender things, I’m just going to concentrate on my future and look forward,” Semenya said.

She added that it was a great privilege to carry the South African flag, an honour she did not expect to befall upon her.

“It is quite exciting and, for me, when I look back at my career, I didn’t think I was going to make it to the Olympics,” she said
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NPA ‘made up’ Breytenbach charges


The National Prosecuting Authority has fabricated charges against suspended prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach, her lawyer said on Friday.

“They are trumped up charges designed to get rid of Glynnis Breytenbach,” Wim Trengove said at her disciplinary hearing in Pretoria.

He was referring in particular to two charges relating to Breytenbach doing work outside the NPA; she allegedly rented out a flat and ran a horse stabling business.

Trengove was cross-examining Hercules Wasserman, acting senior manager of the NPA’s integrity management unit, at the authority’s offices in Silverton.

Trengove pointed out that renting out a flat did not amount to performing remunerative work.

Breytenbach had stabled a horse for a friend’s child which had cost her R2 500 a month, although the friend could only contribute R1000 towards this, he said.

Wasserman said he was not aware of this.

Trengove said this was because Wasserman had not investigated
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NPA ‘made up’ Breytenbach charges


The National Prosecuting Authority has fabricated charges against suspended prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach, her lawyer said on Friday.

“They are trumped up charges designed to get rid of Glynnis Breytenbach,” Wim Trengove said at her disciplinary hearing in Pretoria.

He was referring in particular to two charges relating to Breytenbach doing work outside the NPA; she allegedly rented out a flat and ran a horse stabling business.

Trengove was cross-examining Hercules Wasserman, acting senior manager of the NPA’s integrity management unit, at the authority’s offices in Silverton.

Trengove pointed out that renting out a flat did not amount to performing remunerative work.

Breytenbach had stabled a horse for a friend’s child which had cost her R2 500 a month, although the friend could only contribute R1000 towards this, he said.

Wasserman said he was not aware of this.

Trengove said this was because Wasserman had not investigated.

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NPA ‘made up’ Breytenbach charges


The National Prosecuting Authority has fabricated charges against suspended prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach, her lawyer said on Friday.

“They are trumped up charges designed to get rid of Glynnis Breytenbach,” Wim Trengove said at her disciplinary hearing in Pretoria.

He was referring in particular to two charges relating to Breytenbach doing work outside the NPA; she allegedly rented out a flat and ran a horse stabling business.

Trengove was cross-examining Hercules Wasserman, acting senior manager of the NPA’s integrity management unit, at the authority’s offices in Silverton.

Trengove pointed out that renting out a flat did not amount to performing remunerative work.

Breytenbach had stabled a horse for a friend’s child which had cost her R2 500 a month, although the friend could only contribute R1000 towards this, he said.

Wasserman said he was not aware of this.

Trengove said this was because Wasserman had not investigated.

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NPA ‘made up’ Breytenbach charges


The National Prosecuting Authority has fabricated charges against suspended prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach, her lawyer said on Friday.

“They are trumped up charges designed to get rid of Glynnis Breytenbach,” Wim Trengove said at her disciplinary hearing in Pretoria.

He was referring in particular to two charges relating to Breytenbach doing work outside the NPA; she allegedly rented out a flat and ran a horse stabling business.

Trengove was cross-examining Hercules Wasserman, acting senior manager of the NPA’s integrity management unit, at the authority’s offices in Silverton.

Trengove pointed out that renting out a flat did not amount to performing remunerative work.

Breytenbach had stabled a horse for a friend’s child which had cost her R2 500 a month, although the friend could only contribute R1000 towards this, he said.

Wasserman said he was not aware of this.

Trengove said this was because Wasserman had not investigated.

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NPA ‘made up’ Breytenbach charges


The National Prosecuting Authority has fabricated charges against suspended prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach, her lawyer said on Friday.

“They are trumped up charges designed to get rid of Glynnis Breytenbach,” Wim Trengove said at her disciplinary hearing in Pretoria.

He was referring in particular to two charges relating to Breytenbach doing work outside the NPA; she allegedly rented out a flat and ran a horse stabling business.

Trengove was cross-examining Hercules Wasserman, acting senior manager of the NPA’s integrity management unit, at the authority’s offices in Silverton.

Trengove pointed out that renting out a flat did not amount to performing remunerative work.

Breytenbach had stabled a horse for a friend’s child which had cost her R2 500 a month, although the friend could only contribute R1000 towards this, he said.

Wasserman said he was not aware of this.

Trengove said this was because Wasserman had not investigated.

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NPA ‘made up’ Breytenbach charges


The National Prosecuting Authority has fabricated charges against suspended prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach, her lawyer said on Friday.

“They are trumped up charges designed to get rid of Glynnis Breytenbach,” Wim Trengove said at her disciplinary hearing in Pretoria.

He was referring in particular to two charges relating to Breytenbach doing work outside the NPA; she allegedly rented out a flat and ran a horse stabling business.

Trengove was cross-examining Hercules Wasserman, acting senior manager of the NPA’s integrity management unit, at the authority’s offices in Silverton.

Trengove pointed out that renting out a flat did not amount to performing remunerative work.

Breytenbach had stabled a horse for a friend’s child which had cost her R2 500 a month, although the friend could only contribute R1000 towards this, he said.

Wasserman said he was not aware of this.

Trengove said this was because Wasserman had not investigated.

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I begged him to stop – gran


Durban – The 94-year-old great-grandmother who was raped, allegedly by a released convict, has told of her ordeal and why she will never forgive the man who showed her no mercy.

“He had no compassion. I cried, begging him to stop, asking him why he was killing me, but he just put his hand over my mouth,” the New Hanover grandmother said on Thursday from a relative’s house, where she was recuperating from Monday’s attack, which has sent shock waves across the country.

Nibbling on a packet of chips, the woman spoke of how she tried to fend off her attacker, who had broken into her mud-plastered home in KwaSwayimane on Monday night.

“I nearly died; I was short of breath and when he had finished what he had been doing I felt like I was drawing my last breath as he walked out,” she said, shaking her head.

The woman was raped in the presence of two of her more than 20 grandchildren

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Zuma a questionable leader – Malema


Axed ANC Youth League head Julius Malema has lambasted President Jacob Zuma, The Times reported on Friday.

The paper said Malema was scheduled to deliver a public lecture at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology on former president Nelson Mandela on Thursday, but instead used the podium to criticise Zuma.

Malema labelled Zuma a “questionable leader”, saying he was a laughing stock internationally who got married every December and used his culture to promote his multiple marriages.

“Zuma is a polygamist (who) undermined the rights of women,” Malema was quoted as saying.

He also accused Zuma of avoiding the opportunity to answer to charges of corruption for which his former financial adviser, Schabir Schaik, was jailed.

The charges against Zuma were dropped.

Malema praised the leadership skills of Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

“(He) takes the office of the (deputy) president very seriously.”

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North West protesters arrested


Sixty-seven residents of the Schamberg informal settlement in the North West were arrested for taking part in an illegal protest, police said on Friday.

Brigadier Thulane Ngubane said the 67 were part of a group of nearly 600 local residents who barricaded the R506 road in Hartbeespoort with tree trunks and stones on Thursday morning.

Mobile toilets were burned and stones were thrown at police officers. A constable was injured in the incident.

The protest was related to the residents’ dissatisfaction with the Madibeng municipality’s service delivery.

“The protesters were apparently unhappy with the municipality’s delivery (of) services, specifically water provision,” said Ngubane.

Calm was restored by noon on Thursday, but police were keeping watch.

Ngubane said the 67 would appear in the Brits Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of malicious damage to property and public violence. – Sapa

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