Johannesburg – Somali shopowner Alodixashi Sheik Yusuf’s murder case is expected to recommence in the Protea Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

Magistrate Herman Badenhorst previously postponed the matter so that Yusuf’s status in the country could be established.

He is accused of shooting dead Siphiwe Mahori, 14, in Snake Park, Soweto, last Monday.

He allegedly fired at a group of people trying to rob his shop.

The shooting sparked a wave of looting of foreign-owned shops, which spread from Soweto to Kagiso on the West Rand and Sebokeng in the Vaal, causing several deaths, including a baby who was trampled by a group of people running.

The situation is calm at Diepsloot north of Johannesburg in Gauteng following a land-grab protest on Saturday. A group of people had attempted to occupy a piece of land illegally.

Police fired rubber bullets after the protesters pelted them with stones. A four-year-old boy was injured and a man was arrested for public violence.

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The organisation, Friends of Jackie Selebi, has confirmed it will start an urgent court bid asking the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to review the late police commissioner’s criminal case.

Selebi, who was buried in Pretoria on Saturday, had been sentenced to 15 years in jail for corruption in 2010.

Spokesperson for Friends of Jackie Selebi, Isaack Lesole, says they believe evidence was supressed during his trial. Lesole says a report has been concluded with regards to evidence around the relationship between the Scorpions and the police at the time.

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The ANC has given up its fight to introduce new rules that would have barred EFF members from interrupting President Jacob Zuma during the forthcoming state of the nation address (Sona).

Cumbersome parliamentary procedures and an anxiety not to be seen to be panicking over the EFF’s threats led the party to cancel a joint rules committee meeting on Friday, which would have approved the new rules that include barring MPs from questioning the president during the Sona.

DA chief whip John Steenhuisen also confirmed that various opposition parties, excluding the EFF, had met Speaker Baleka Mbete informally on Thursday and highlighted the problems with pursuing new rules aimed at one political party.

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Residents of the troubled Limpopo town of Malamulele have decided to continue with their shutdown of services. They have met to decide a course of action after the Municipal Demarcation Board denied their request to break away from Thulamela Local Municipality and form a separate municipality.

Protests over the last four weeks have often been violent and children are being prevented from attending school.

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