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/ 2 December 2005
Independent Communications Authority of South Africa councillor Mamodupi Mohlala has close links with companies bidding for licences that the council is due to adjudicate, leaked documents and company records show. The Mapungubwe consortium, where she is major shareholder, has applied for a radio licence in Limpopo.
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/ 2 December 2005
Wallabies coach Eddie Jones was sacked on Friday because his recent results were unsatisfactory, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) said. ”This is a very difficult decision, but the ARU strongly believes we must give the Wallabies a fresh start with a new coach who will give us the best possible chance of future success,” ARU chief executive Gary Flowers said in a statement.
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/ 2 December 2005
As the political sun appears to be setting for Jacob Zuma, the festive season could be a good time for the former deputy president to try his hand at kwaito. He is, after all, known for his penchant for breaking into song at the slightest excuse, and he has the voice. He can always call for assistance from kwaito star Eugene Mthethwa (he of Trompies fame), one of his friends.
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/ 2 December 2005
What was Project Avani? And how did it link to spying on African National Congress businessman Saki Macozoma? Those are some of the questions raised by tantalising new glimpses into the circumstances surrounding the suspension of National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha that emerged in court papers this week.
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/ 2 December 2005
Civilians made homeless by the civil war in Sudan’s western region of Darfur say they remain prey to attack by militiamen because they are unable to survive on the relief supplies provided in their camps. In the al-Sereif and Otach camps, women were among those who said they were forced to leave the protection of their tent cities to find food and firewood.
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/ 2 December 2005
Lesbian couple Cecelia Bonthuys and Marié Fourie will have to wait another year to get that little piece of white paper that symbolises a legal marriage. The Constitutional Court ruled this week in favour of same-sex marriages, but gave Parliament 12 months to draft new legislation that would legalise gay and lesbian unions.
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/ 2 December 2005
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Jacob Zuma confessed to senior trade union and communist leaders this week that he had sex with the woman he is alleged to have raped, but that it was consensual. Impeccable sources also say the alliance leaders, who visited Zuma at his Nkandla homestead last Sunday, also persuaded him not to resign from his post as African National Congress deputy president.
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/ 2 December 2005
There is light at the end of the tunnel for South African consumers who are frustrated by excessively high broadband Internet costs and having to wait months for their service to be connected. New draft regulations published this week by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa are set to shake up broadband service delivery.
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/ 2 December 2005
A few months shy of her 11th birthday, Vuyelwa bore in miniature all the noble traits of her race and gender. Stately and voluminous as a chubby-cheeked Zeppelin coated with Vaseline, she sailed through clear skies of her own making, deaf to the howls and grunts of the boy-children who crouched on all fours at her feet, snapping at each other as they fought over scraps of bone.
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/ 2 December 2005
Adding zinc to the diets of HIV-positive children helps protect them, researchers report. The South African scientists say zinc supplements are a safe, simple and cost-effective way to reduce illnesses such as diarrhoea, a major cause of death in poor communities.