DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Sunday
ACCORDING to the Sunday Times, the Pan Africanist Congress and the police are trying to find out what Daniel Ngwenya did with the R25 a head contributions he took from landless people, precipitating the recent Bredell land invasion. The invasion hammered both the rand and PAC credibility.
The Scorpions are investigating the possibility that Hansie Cronje, beside being a rat-fink match fixer, is also guilty of fraud, foreign exchange and tax violations.
Bulelani Ngcuka, the head of the National Directorate of Prosecutions has been accused by the ANC’s KwaZulu-Natal leader S’bu Ndebele, who is apparently over-awed by royalty, of treating Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini “worse than a house nigger”.
Ngcuka’s offence? Not telling the king that his name would be raised by witnesses in a murder trial. Ngcuka appears to be unmoved by the criticism.
The South African Communist Party, busy noisily celebrating its 80th birthday, is worried that its credibility is being hammered by members who as cabinet ministers are leading privatisation programmes.
South African retailers, especially furniture chains, are restructuring their businesses as their customer base is killed off by HIV/Aids.
The line-up from the Times is concluded with an account of how the Springboks on Saturday sprang back from a half-time score of 0-14 to beat the Australians 20-15.
Independent Online reports that two skeletons “between 200 and 700 years old” have been found near Cape Vidal in KwaZulu-Natal, a find described as being of great significance, without that significance being explained.
Fare-dodgers are estimated to have cost Metrorail in the Cape between R150-million and R170-million, according to Minister of Transport Dullah Omar.
A retired University of Cape Town medical professor authored a 30-year-old study — long-ignored by the industry — on the dangers of deep vein thrombosis posed by long-distance air travel.
Quantas, British Airways, KLM and the Australian air regulator are being sued by a now-handicapped 28-year-old former teacher from Cape Town and two Australians for neglecting to warn them of the dangers of deep-vein thrombosis.