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/ 20 February 2006
More than a year after two damning reports of financial mismanagement at the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), potentially costing R150-million, no action has been taken against the senior staffers indicted in the report. In fact, Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza stepped in to reverse the suspension of the ARC’s chief financial officer, Lazarus Gopane.
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/ 20 February 2006
Transnet’s strike badly affected Metrorail in Gauteng but left the company’s other operations in the country unaffected, the firm said on Monday. Metrorail, one of Transnet’s divisions, was, ”as expected”, affected by the first of day of strike, which left only a handful of trains operating in central Gauteng during peak hour on Monday.
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/ 20 February 2006
The blame for power cuts that hit large parts of the country over the weekend and continue in the Western Cape lies squarely with Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks and the African National Congress, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. The Western Cape, including Cape Town, was without power for most of Sunday.
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/ 20 February 2006
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It is not every day that the president visits your house, but for Sandra and Beauty Maluleka the moment was so big they believe he ”cured” Beauty’s sickness. President Thabo Mbeki was electioneering in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, where introduced voters to the African National Congress candidates in their wards.
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/ 20 February 2006
A man suspected of murdering a Pretoria woman whose corpse was found in a car boot earlier this month was rearrested on Monday after his case was struck off the roll in the city’s regional court earlier in the day. Danie van der Walt, from Meyers Park, was rearrested him within an hour of the case being struck off.
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/ 20 February 2006
Disgraced Austrian ski coach Walter Mayer faces criminal proceedings after a dramatic overnight car chase in southern Austria, police reports said on Monday. The incident came 24 hours after Mayer was the target of a police raid at the Turin Winter Olympics on the Austrian biathlon and cross-country ski team.
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/ 20 February 2006
Wigan Athletic manager Paul Jewell was left with a tough selection process ahead of next week’s Carling Cup final against Manchester United after seeing his side twice take the lead against Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on Sunday — only for Spurs to reply with an equal number of strikes.
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/ 20 February 2006
Nigeria’s government has ruled out using its military might to secure the release of the nine foreign oil workers kidnapped on Saturday by militant youths in the Niger Delta region. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has taken responsibility for Saturday’s kidnapping.
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/ 20 February 2006
The Mamelodi campus of the University of Pretoria has been closed down for a week amid intimidation by striking students, the Student Representative Council (SRC) said. SRC deputy president Adel Vlok said students were ”using foul language and getting aggressive”.
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/ 20 February 2006
At least four people were killed and dozens wounded on Monday as rival factions renewed fierce fighting in the southern part of the Somali capital, bringing the death toll since clashes began at the weekend to 18. The clashes, which erupted on Saturday between freelance gunmen who attempted to set up a checkpoint and Islamic court security personnel, resumed in 21 October Road.