"..But Archbishop Ncube declined to explicitly deny the affair when he spoke
to the Guardian yesterday..."
Omar,
Thanks for the forward!
May be if our Holy Clown was more concerned with spreading the word of God
than spreading lies to the point of drooling, which I saw him do the other
day, he may have remembered to keep his pants up. Reminds me of a certain
Oslo 'imam'.
Regards,
kabir.
On 7/17/07, OMAR DRAMMEH <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Zimbabwe's archbishop accused of adultery
>
> Chris McGreal, Africa correspondent
> Tuesday July 17, 2007
>
> Guardian
>
> Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic archbishop, Pius Ncube, a strident critic of
> Robert Mugabe's rule, was accused yesterday of a two-year adulterous affair
> with a secretary at his church in a lawsuit that his lawyers described as
> politically motivated.
> But Archbishop Ncube declined to explicitly deny the affair when he spoke
> to the Guardian yesterday.
>
> In legal papers served on the archbishop in Bulawayo, Onesisums Sibanda is
> demanding 20bn Zimbabwe dollars (£80,000) in damages from the cleric for the
> alleged adultery with his wife, Rosemary. The state-run Zimbabwe
> Broadcasting Corporation said Ms Sibanda, who worked at St Mary's Cathedral,
> admitted the affair in an interview.
>
> ZBC followed court officials into the archbishop's office in a move that
> his lawyers said was evidence of an orchestrated attempt to destroy his
> credibility because of his virulent criticism of the government, including
> calling Mr Mugabe a murderer and a monster.
>
> But the archbishop, speaking to the Guardian yesterday, declined to deny
> the affair, even though he was asked three times if there was any merit to
> the accusation. He said he would wait for the matter to come to court and
> that the accusations were politically motivated.
>
> "You see these people are always following me and trying to find something
> to try and fix me," he said. "There were a dozen news men accompanying this
> man [Mr Sibanda] to the court and then they splashed this before even giving
> me the summons."
>
> Adultery is illegal, although rarely prosecuted, in Zimbabwe.
>
> The accusation comes a week after Archbishop Ncube returned from South
> Africa, where he launched a report that accused the Zimbabwean state of
> torture and illegal killings. "Mugabe is a man who is a megalomaniac. He
> loves power, he lives for power. Even his own party is appealing to him to
> step down," he said in Johannesburg.
>
> The archbishop has been forced to qualify some of his stronger statements,
> including a call to Christians in Zimbabwe to pray for Mr Mugabe to die.
>
> For several years he was at odds with most of his own bishops in his
> strident criticism of the government, but in recent months the archbishop
> galvanised them into issuing a letter read in churches that likened popular
> opposition to Mr Mugabe's "racist, corrupt and lawless" government to the
> country's liberation war against white rule.
>
> Zimbabwe's president has described him as a "half-wit".
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
>
> > From: Kabir Njaay [[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 2007-07-17 16:14:14 CEST
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Fwd; Vlok to Be Charged Over Chikane
> >
> > *Vlok to Be Charged Over Chikane*
> >
> > http://allafrica.com/stories/200707170159.html
> >
> > *Business Day* (Johannesburg)
> >
> > NEWS
> >
> > 17 July 2007
> >
> > Posted to the web 17 July 2007
> >
> > By Ernest Mabuza
> >
> > Johannesburg
> >
> >
> > FORMER law and order minister Adriaan Vlok, former police commissioner
> Johan
> > van der Merwe and three other men would be charged with the attempted
> murder
> > of Frank Chikane, a former anti-apartheid activist and now
> director-general
> > in the Presidency, the National Prosecuting Agency said yesterday.
> >
> > This is the first case of prosecution of apartheid-era atrocities in
> which
> > alleged perpetrators were denied amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation
> > Commission or did not seek amnesty, and it follows an amended
> prosecution
> > policy drafted last year to deal with such people. More than 7000
> petitions
> > were received and 849 people were granted amnesty.
> >
> > Agency spokesman Panyaza Lesufi said the five were due to appear in the
> > Pretoria High Court next month to explain their roles in the attempted
> > murder in 1989. In 2004, Vlok and four others were to stand trial for
> the
> > attempted murder but the case was withdrawn as the agency did not have
> > guidelines on how to proceed with truth commission cases.
> >
> > Vlok did not admit to poisoning Chikane at the commission, but sought
> > amnesty for the bombings of Khotso House and the South African Catholic
> > Bishops' Conference headquarters.
> >
> > Vlok met Chikane last August and washed his feet, seeking forgiveness
> for
> > past deeds. Chikane said that while he accepted Vlok's gesture, he
> wanted
> > the law to take its course regarding the attempts on his life.
> >
> > Lesufi also announced the National Prosecuting Agency found the remains
> of
> > what were believed to be the bodies of the "Pe bco Three" in Cradock
> last
> > Thursday. Sipho Hashe, Champion Galela and Qaqawuli Godolozi of the Port
> > Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation disappeared from an airport in Port
> > Elizabeth in 1985.
> >
> > The late former security policeman Gideon Niewoudt said their bodies
> were
> > burnt and thrown into the Fish River.
> >
> > Lesufi said the remains of three bodies were found in a septic tank.
> >
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