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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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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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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A 13-year-old alleged victim of Johannes Jacobus Steyn, dubbed the “Sunday rapist”, testified on Friday in the High Court, sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court in Alberton.

“A man came from behind and grabbed me around my body and pushed a gun against my head,” the girl said.

The girl was testifying in camera, as an order was given to protect her identity.

“I started screaming. He pushed me into the car… He pushed me under the dashboard,” the emotional girl said.

She described how she tried to get out of the car, but it was locked.

“As jy so aanhou gaan jy k*k suster (if you keep behaving like this you will suffer sister),” he told her, she testified.

Steyn is accused of murdering school girls Louise de Waal and Lazanne Farmer
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