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This past Wednesday marked exactly two months since Shannon Darlikie Wasserfall went missing without trace. Ironically, it was also her 22nd birthday. 

Experts believe the country is reckoning with a rape problem. “We have had a rape crisis all this time. There is nothing new. It is an ongoing crisis,” said relationship consultant Ngamane Karuaihe-Upi. 

The teacher suspended from Hillside Christian College, Corien Steenkamp is being dragged to court after she was charged under the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Prohibition Amendment Act.

Justice minister Yvonne Dausab has bemoaned the reduction in the budget allocation to her ministry’s directorates of legal aid and the civil litigation, saying that the current state of affairs will force experienced prosecutors to resign due to unconducive working conditions.

Information minister Peya Mushelenga yesterday announced the appointment of John Sifani as the board chairperson of New Era Publication Corporation (NEPC).

In just under a month, Kenya will be on the ballot for one of the five vacant slots reserved for non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

One of the leading businesses in the country, the Pupkewitz Group, said it has decided to offer a voluntary separation to employees as it restructures part of its business due to the Covid-19 fallout.

The body of Zimbabwean street vendor Hlaisanani Zhou, who died after a vicious assault by several men last week in Otjozondjupa region, is expected to arrive by road in Zimbabwe, where burial is scheduled for today.

The director general of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Paulus Noa, said they know exactly where Fishrot-implicated lawyer Marén de Klerk finds himself in South Africa.

Suspended head of Nedbank Namibia’s SME business Nelson Simasiku has turned to the labour court in a bid to stop a disciplinary hearing against him, which he claims was “unlawful and contrary to company policies”.