Nchindo Co-Accused To Appear In Court Today
Monday, March 01, 2010
The accused are facing 36 counts of corruption.
Legal proceedings are set to continue today before Regional Magistrate (South) Lot Moroka in the marathon case that has been running for two years now. Questions have been lingering in the public mind as to what will happen to the case now that the main suspect has passed on. Legal commentators have been quoted in the local media saying that charges against the late Nchindo will be dropped, but not so for the co-accused who still have to answer to the charges.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...