South African President Thabo Mbeki came under mounting pressure over the weekend to explain his suspension of the country’s top prosecutor, a controversial move weeks before a crunch vote on his leadership of the African National Congress (ANC).
The Democratic Alliance is to ask President Thabo Mbeki questions in Parliament relating to National Prosecuting Authority head Vusi Pikoli’s suspension and the reported warrant of arrest issued for police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. The party’s parliamentary leader Sandra Botha said it was "imperative that the president informs the nation".
South Africa’s high murder rate rose further in the past year while rape figures dropped, according to police statistics on Tuesday. With around 50 murders, 148 rapes and nearly 700 serious assaults committed each day, violent crime is a particular concern.
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/ 15 October 2006
Just after midnight, in the early hours of Sunday morning, Johannesburg High Court Judge Zukiswa Tshiqi dismissed with costs the SABC’s application to have the Mail & Guardian Online remove a report on the blacklisting of certain analysts and commentators by the broadcaster. ”I don’t believe that it is okay to suppress information or to hide information written in the report,” she told the court.
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/ 12 October 2006
It may only have been a matter of minutes but for many New Yorkers it seemed so much longer — and so terribly reminiscent. A pall of thick black smoke hung over the Manhattan skyline. Bits of the tail wing of a plane lay scattered on the pavement. Two floors of a tower block were engulfed in an intense blaze.
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/ 11 October 2006
A small aircraft crashed into a high-rise building in New York City on Wednesday, killing at least two people and prompting US authorities to scramble fighter jets as a precaution. Officials emphasised the crash was not an act of terrorism but an accident. The accident claimed the life of American baseball player Cory Lidle, who was thought to be piloting the plane.
The rise in popularity of blogging has inspired new writers and creators to share their voices with the world, <i>Pewsearch.org</i> reported recently. A national phone survey of bloggers in the United States found that most are describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers.
The unemployment rate in the United Kingdom hit its highest level in three and a half years in April, official data showed recently, while earnings growth remained subdued. The Office for National Statistics said unemployment for the three months leading up to April rose from 5,1% to 5,3%, its highest since September 2002.
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/ 12 December 2005
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The claim that Jacob Zuma confessed to having had consensual sex with a woman he is alleged to have raped was ”manufactured” by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and the journalist who wrote the story, Zuma said in a statement on Monday.
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/ 9 December 2005
Trevor Ncube, the owner and publisher of the Mail & Guardian and Zimbabwe’s Standard and Independent had his passport impounded as he landed in Bulawayo on Wednesday. The confiscation of Ncube’s passport is based on a recent set of laws which limits citizenship of those who the Zimbabwe government alleges to be harming the interests of the country.