Anti-apartheid activist Dr Mamphela Ramphele, a respected academic, medical doctor and former MD of the World Bank, heads an application by Freedom Under Law (FUL) to prevent controversial policeman Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli from performing any policing duties.

Retired judges have blasted government plans to force them to publicly declare their and their families' financial and business interests, according to a report in The Times.

The government is tight-lipped about an inquiry into CIA-style rendition operations involving the sending of Zimbabwe dissidents back home by police.

Internal divisions in the ANC over the possible scrapping of section 25 of the Constitution (the property clause) has surfaced in Parliament, says a report in The Witness.

An alliance of 12 NGOs wants the Justice Department to amend the Sexual Offences Act 'within days', according to a Beeld report.

Even if organised business undertook to employ every available worker it would not be possible to guarantee businesses total flexibility in employment conditions, Phambinkosi Mkalipi, the deputy DG of the Department of Labour, told Business Report.

Sam Buthelezi has succeeded in barring journalists from hearing his crucial evidence at the insolvency hearing into Canyon Springs Investments 12, says a Mail & Guardian Online report.

A Lord's Resistance Army commander captured at the weekend is eligible to apply for amnesty, a Ugandan Government legal adviser said yesterday.

The Malaysian Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalise War (KLFCW) has found former US President George W Bush and seven administration officials guilty of war crimes after a symbolic trial, says a Jurist report.

Stripping middle-class families of child benefit will be a disaster; causing confusion, intrusion and unwarranted fines, the official accountants' body in the UK has warned.