Johannesburg – A man was killed in a car crash at the intersection of the R500 and R53, near Potchefstroom, on Sunday, paramedics said.

When paramedics arrived, they found the wreckage of one of the two cars was on fire, ER24 spokesperson Werner Vermaak said.

“Bystanders pointed out that the driver in the vehicle was still trapped…. Unfortunately, paramedics could not get close to the vehicle to rapidly extricate the man from the burning car.”

When the blaze was extinguished, they found the man dead in the wreckage.

It was not clear whether he died on impact, or subsequently burnt to death.

“Six people from the other vehicle were treated for various injuries on the scene.”

They were taken to Potchefstroom Provincial Hospital and Mediclinic Potchefstroom.

While the cause of the accident had not yet been established, it appeared that one of the vehicles may have failed to stop at the intersection.

– SAPA

Pietermaritzburg – A mass stabbing left one young man dead and six relatives hurt on Sunday afternoon.

It all started over a stolen jacket, said a relative of the dead man, 23-year-old Danisile Mayibenye.
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Johannesburg – The Athlone Magistrate’s Court, in Cape Town, will hear closing arguments on Monday in the bail application of a Zimbabwean man accused of killing a man and eating his heart.

On Thursday, the court heard that Andrew Chimboza, 35, was a danger to society and a flight risk.

Testifying in his bail application, investigating officer Sergeant Mpumelelo Yengwa said there was nothing keeping Chimboza in South Africa as he had no property or children.

Yengwa said he opposed bail because residents might kill Chimboza, he could kill himself, or endanger others. He believed the State had a strong case against him.

Chimboza came to Cape Town from Zimbabwe in 2009 and ran a window-tinting business.

On Wednesday, Chimboza testified he stabbed Mbuyiselo Manona, 62, to death in self-defence at the Gugulethu home of a female client on 10 June.

He said Manona had been belligerent for no reason and attacked him without warning when his client had left to buy alcohol.

He rejected the State’s claim that he had eaten Manona’s heart and said the blood on his face had been from a gash to the head and Manona’s spurting wounds.
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Johannesburg – While an investigation into complaints against drink-and-drive High Court Judge Nkola Motata are on hold, he continues to stay at home and earn a monthly salary, the Star reported on Monday.

Lusanda Ntuli of the office of the Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said Motata had not been released from service.

“He is still receiving a monthly salary,” Ntuli said.

The Judicial Conduct Tribunal probing a complaint of racism against Motata was postponed in February pending a challenge to legislation relating to the tribunal.

The section of the act being challenged empowered the tribunal’s president to appoint a National Prosecuting Authority official to collect evidence on the tribunal’s behalf.

The tribunal was to probe Motata’s conduct after he crashed his car into the wall of businessman Richard Baird’s Johannesburg property in January 2007. Motata was found guilty of drunk driving in 2009.

He allegedly said while drunk: “No boer is going to undermine me; this used to be the white man’s land but it isn’t anymore.”

He also allegedly told a metro policeman not to support a white man.

He went to the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to stop the JSC from probing the complaint about his remarks, but his application was unsuccessful.
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Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma is healthy and continues with his work, he said in an interview posted online.

“There is no problem. I am as healthy as anything,” Zuma said in an interview clip on the My ANC channel on YouTube posted earlier in July.

“In fact my doctors have been saying young people are going to envy you if they knew how healthy you are…I am healthy, and I am working.”

He said people were speculating about his health.

“I read in newspapers about how sick I am and what diseases are in me. I was shocked that that may be another Jacob Zuma, not this one.”

Exhaustion

After the May general elections, Zuma was exhausted and doctors had ordered him to take some rest, he said.

“Doctors took a very good decision that I should take it easy, and that is what I have done.”

Last month, Zuma spent a weekend in hospital.

At the time, African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe said Zuma, 72, went for a routine health check and was exhausted from election campaigning.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa stood in for Zuma.

The ANC said its election campaign had been punishing and all senior members of the party would take time off one after another to “re-energise”.

Zuma is currently in Brazil for a Brics summit, and also watched the final of the 2014 Soccer World Cup.

– SAPA