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Power-broker Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats (ID) wants to convince Cape Town’s two major political parties, the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the African National Congress (ANC) to work together in a unity government in Cape Town and 23 other Western Cape towns.
A culture of impunity still reigns in Sudan’s western Darfur region, and a special Sudanese court set up to try perpetrators of war crimes in the three-year-old Darfur conflict has failed to prosecute any suspected war criminals, according to a United Nations envoy in Khartoum.
The Kenyan government on Monday blamed increasing incidents of poaching and illegal trade in bush meat in the country on a searing drought that has put millions of people across East Africa at risk of famine. As the government and relief agencies scramble to save human populations from starvation, wildlife authorities have warned that poachers are targeting weakened wildlife.
The Kenyan media group whose premises were raided last week by police moved to the high court on Monday seeking to declare the attack and seizure of its property unconstitutional, according to court papers. Last week, armed policemen stormed the group, Kenya’s second-biggest media organisation, temporarily shutting down its television station, damaging its printing press and burning newspapers
European Union defence chiefs are optimistic they will be able to find troops needed to respond to a United Nations request to back up its peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the African nation prepares for elections designed to end years of civil strife.
The proposal by the Zimbabwe government that it own 51% of the country’s platinum mines, with a proposed ceding of 25% for free, would render Zimbabwe’s existing platinum mines, as well as any expansions, "uneconomic", Impala Platinum (Implats) Chief Financial Officer David Brown told I-Net Bridge on Monday.
The SA Transport and Allied Workers’ Union has threatened to make its national strike on Monday next week the launching pad of a second round of downing tools. This follows the union’s claim that Transnet, at the weekend, went ”behind labour’s backs” and signed an agreement to transfer Metrorail to the SA Rail Commuter Corporation by the end of this month.
Australia on Tuesday recalled three Ashes casualties in Damien Martyn, Michael Clarke and Michael Kasprowicz but snubbed fellow discard Jason Gillespie’s push for a ticket to South Africa. Selectors instead named Shaun Tait in a 14-man Test squad which had no room for batsman Brad Hodge and New South Wales quick Nathan Bracken.
Closing arguments began on Monday in the trial of a man charged with being in a gang that played the ultra-violent Grand Theft Auto video game by day then robbed and murdered by night. Demarcus Ralls (21) sat between his defence attorneys as prosecutor Darryl Stallworth told jurors that Ralls and other ”Nut Case” gang members terrorised the city of Oakland from late 2002 into early 2003.
Corrie Holloway is one of an increasingly maverick pack of women challenging racial and gender stereotypes by being the only white biker in a motorcycle club in Soweto. With her blond and dyed Afrikaner hair and green eyes and ”biking in the blood”, Holloway embodies the rainbow nation by being a member of The Eagles.