{"id":1386,"date":"2006-02-15T22:32:26","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T04:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2006-02-15T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T04:33:32","slug":"brrreeeport-on-love-child-rape-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"Brrreeeport on Love-child Rape Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brrreeeport visits South Africa, where a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/4716244.stm\">strange courtroom tale<\/a> is unfolding.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An unexpected family link between South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma and a judge has left questions over the future of his rape trial.<\/p>\n<p>South African media have revealed that Mr Zuma has a son whose uncle is a judge who was to have heard the case.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old man&#8217;s mother is the sister of Judge Jeremiah Shongwe.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Shongwe was due to judge the case after Bernard Ngoepe stood down at the defence&#8217;s request, and Phineas Mojapelo stood down for &#8220;personal&#8221; reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Zuma&#8217;s defence team would have raised the issue of the blood connection in court if Judge Shongwe had not stood down from the case, the Star newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p>The recusal of the three most senior judges of the Transvaal region &#8211; Judge President Ngoepe and his two deputies, Judge Mojapelo and Judge Shongwe &#8211; has left uncertainty over who will preside over the Zuma trial when it resumes in the Johannesburg High Court on 6 March.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Brrreeeport suggestion?  Let Judge Judy have it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and just what is the Brrreeeport?  Just a little blogosphere jacking with the search engines, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/2006\/02\/13\/the-brrreeeport-report\/\">Scobleizer<\/a> (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/llamabutchers.mu.nu\/\">Llama Butcher<\/a> Steve).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brrreeeport visits South Africa, where a strange courtroom tale is unfolding. An unexpected family link between South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma and a judge has left questions over the future of his rape trial. South African media have revealed that Mr Zuma has a son whose uncle is a judge who was to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-blogosphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}