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/ 26 October 2006
South Africa will enhance peacekeeping and conflict resolution in Africa while serving on the United Nations Security Council, Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Wednesday. She said at the London School of Economics that the government’s vision for a prosperous, peaceful, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and united Africa would influence its work on the council.
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/ 26 October 2006
Rescue workers in search of the three miners still trapped underground in AngloGold Ashanti’s Tautona mine have been delayed by ”a difficult rock”, the company said on Thursday morning. ”There was slow progress during the course of the night because the rock that rescuers have to go through to reach the trapped miners is difficult [to dig past],” spokesperson Steve Lenahan said.
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/ 26 October 2006
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South African taxpayers have contributed R10-million towards axed deputy president Jacob Zuma’s defence costs, the Star newspaper reports. The figure was reflected in the Presidency’s revised budget vote in Wednesday’s mini-budget tabled by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.
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/ 26 October 2006
It’s 5am and dawn is still far off, but Keti and Bela are already at work and don’t seem to mind the cold autumn mist shrouding the Motovun woods in the heart of the Istria peninsula. "Come on Bela! Shoo, shoo! Where is it? Go for it Keti! Shoo, shoo!" Milena Labinjan briskly encourages her two dogs.
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/ 26 October 2006
This week Finance Minister Trevor Manuel became the king of bling. The mini-budget released this week is replete with showy and insubstantial spending. South Africa is to splurge — on 2010; on the Gautrain; and on a series of sometimes dubious industrial projects. What’s going on?
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/ 26 October 2006
An overflowing pit latrine empties its contents in a thick stream of worm-infested filth at the doorstep of Catherine Kithuku’s home in Matopeni, a slum on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Less than 10 such latrines serve a population of 2Â 000 to 3Â 000 people in this area.
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/ 26 October 2006
When the transitional federal government (TFG) of Somalia sits down for the next round of peace talks with its Islamist rivals in Khartoum on Monday, the main objective will be to hash out the terms of an arrangement to share power. But much more is at stake. The clouds of regional war are darkening.
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/ 26 October 2006
This week News24.com reported on an SABC story gleaned from the BBC, in which Jacob Zuma promised that he would ”follow former president Nelson Mandela’s example” when it came to fighting corruption in government. And there the manne thought it was current President Thabo Mbeki who was the corruption-buster.
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/ 25 October 2006
The African National Congress Youth (ANCYL) League handed a memorandum of demands to the National Credit Regulator in Johannesburg on Wednesday in a protest against the blacklisting of youth by credit bureaux. ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula handed the memorandum to three officials and said the blacklisting of the youth was unfair to the students and unemployed of the country.