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A Chinese court has handed a sentence of life in jail to the boss of a huge smuggling and bribery scam who was at the centre of a lengthy deportation battle with Canada, state media has said.Lai Changxing, 53, received the sentence at a court in southeast China’s Xiamen, the city from which he directed his sprawling criminal empire before fleeing the country, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. The sentence was the maximum available to the Xiamen Intermediate People’s Court after China, in order to secure Lai’s extradition, issued an unusual promise to the Canadian government not to execute him.
The government says it remains committed to e-tolling and will appeal the high court’s interim order halting its implementation in Gauteng.“Cabinet has taken a decision to appeal the interim order to stop the e-tolling,” government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi told a fortnightly post-Cabinet briefing. He said the government had only received a written copy of Judge Bill Prinsloo’s April 28 judgment late on Wednesday.
ANC Women’s League president Angie Motshekga has criticised the “sexist and racist” insults of Cosatu members towards DA leader Helen Zille and parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko.Cosatu members said during Tuesday’s DA protest in Johannesburg over a youth wage subsidy that they wanted to “strip Zille naked” and referred to Lindiwe Mazibuko as ”the madam’s sidekick”.
Several female Democratic Alliance supporters who took part in the march were injured as a result of rough treatment by Cosatu men.
An instruction to halt the investigation into former crime intelligence head Lieutenant General Richard Mdluli came from police bosses, according to newspaper reports on Thursday.The order to stop investigating Mdluli was given by Hawks boss Lieutenant General Anwa Dramat on February 13, according to a report by Hawks detective Colonel Kobus Roelofse which was filed in the South Gauteng High Court on Tuesday.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi warns the ANC at the trade union federation's conference yesterday
“This is in the same region as the 17 percent of September 2011, the 21 percent measured in mid-2010 and down on the 27 percent seen at the end of 2009,” the researchers said on Wednesday. The study was conducted by TNS South Africa between April 13 and 24, before the African National Congress Youth League leader was expelled from the ANC.
Protesting Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) members attacked a Post Office van in central Johannesburg on Wednesday morning.They pelted it with stones in Jorissen Street, forcing the driver to reverse around a corner. About 100 of the union’s members, employed by the SA Post Office (Sapo) in Gauteng, converged on Cosatu House in Braamfontein to protest against an unresolved labour broking agreement.
After a third day of failed talks with political leaders on Tuesday, a spokesman for President Karolos Papoulias said the process of seeking a compromise had been declared a failure and a new vote must be held. He did not immediately give the date for the new vote, but elections rules suggest it will be in mid-June. A caretaker government would be formed on Wednesday, the spokesman said.
the police, his spokesman said on Wednesday.“We can confirm that we received the court papers and that our legal team are currently studying them,” Zweli Mnisi said. Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has received legal papers from Freedom Under Law (FUL) applying for the removal of Lt-Gen Richard Mdluli from the police, his spokesman said on Wednesday.
Bosnian Serb military leader, Ratko Mladic, faces 11 counts of war crimes at UN court over Srebrenica massacre and siege of Sarajevo.
According to Human Rights Watch, a Baghdad prison that was supposed to have shut down in 2011 is still in operation.Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry has denied the Human Rights Watch claim as inaccurate, saying the detention centre in question, known by its former US military designation as Camp Honour, was shut down more than a year ago.
According to police estimates, about 2500 Democratic Alliance supporters wearing blue T-shirts converged on Beyers Naude Square in the city centre to protest against the union federation’s opposition to the youth wage subsidy. Cosatu affiliates, however, vowed to oppose the DA’s march, saying that it was an act of provocation against the working classes, and signalled the beginning of “open class warfare”.
As Greece lurches along without a government, its deepening political crisis is fast turning into a war of wills in which Europe’s economy potentially hangs in the balance. On one side are the Greek politicians who accuse other Europeans of trying to “terrorize” their country into accepting more draconian austerity cuts and who warn that if Greece gets kicked out of the euro, “Europe will be doomed.” On the other are officials in Brussels, Berlin and other capitals, who say that expelling Greece from the Eurozone would be regrettable but “can be managed” if Athens reneges on the tough terms to which it has agreed in exchange for two international bailouts.
He is set to receive R90 000 in damages from the minister of police. Eric Gosa was let off the hook after spending months in jail when charges were eventually dropped against him due to a lack of evidence. He was detained from December 1, 2008 until March 26, 2010 and claimed R653 000 in damages in the Pretoria High Court for unlawful arrest and detention.
Minister of trade and industry, Rob Davies, has responded to allegations of Abuse of power
Ugandan forces have captured one of the Lord’s Resistance Army’s five most wanted leaders in an operation which analysts said had struck a vital blow against Joseph Kony, the fugitive LRA leader accused of war crimes.The Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) said on Sunday that Caesar Achellam, a major general in Kony’s outfit of about 200 fighters, was captured in an ambush on Saturday along the banks of the River Mbou in neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR). They said Achellam had been armed with just an AK-47 rifle and eight rounds of ammunition. He was being held with his wife, a young daughter and a helper. The army, which has a force hunting for Kony full-time in the jungles of CAR, backed by US troops, said the capture of Achellam would encourage other fighters to abandon the LRA.
The trial of Anders Behring Breivik has begun hearing testimony from witnesses who survived being shot by him on Norway’s Utoeya island.One witness who escaped by swimming said she thought she was going to die, but preferred to drown than be shot. Another described how he had covered himself with soil to hide from Breivik. Breivik, 33, admits killing 69 people at the youth camp on Utoeya and eight people in a Oslo bomb attack last July. He denies criminal responsibility.
Expelled ANCYL president Julius Malema stated on Monday that he wanted to be a leader in the ANC.“I will lead the ANC. You must put it on the archive. I am going to be a leader of the African National Congress,” he said a news conference in Johannesburg.It was his first media briefing since he was expelled from the ANC on April 24. The event was arranged by the National Press Club.
“It doesn’t matter what time it takes, I will lead the African National Congress,” he said.
“I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people”Russian President Vladimir Putin has been sworn in for a third term but thousands of protesters demonstrated against his inauguration and clashed with police in Moscow.
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