The trial of a South African former theology student accused of murdering four people in Ohio and New Mexico has been postponed till October.
Mandela’s cousin has declared his support for the DA because the ANC has “lost its way”, in spite of ruling party radicals’ attempts to secure votes ahead of the 2014 elections – the latest of which has allegedly seen a DA youth leader’s shack set alight for being a “dog of Helen Zille”.
If the South African DNA Bill is passed, it will allow for the creation of a national DNA database by taking non-intimate DNA samples from suspects will help police to find criminals responsible for unsolved murders or rapes when they are arrested for other offences
Margie Orford is an award-winning journalist and author of the Clare Hart series of crime novels set in South Africa and Namibia