The African National Congress orchestrated Thursday’s taxi violence in Cape Town in a bid to disrupt a Democratic Alliance-led ”save democracy” march, according to city mayor Helen Zille.

Fourteen current and former African National Congress MPs were convicted and fined on Monday after pleading guilty to theft and fraud charges stemming from abuse of parliamentary travel vouchers. The sentencing, carried out in the Cape High Court in terms of plea-bargain agreements with the Scorpions, came only a day ahead of their next scheduled court appearance in the case.

South Africa faced a beast with two heads — greed and drunkenness for power, business magnate Saki Macozoma said on Tuesday. Macozoma, who is also a member of the African National Congress’s National Executive Committee , was speaking at a Cape Town seminar organised by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

Home Affairs Department portfolio committee chairperson Patrick Chauke says he will not allow his religious beliefs to interfere with the way he and his committee deal with draft legislation on gay marriages. He was speaking outside Parliament on Saturday, after receiving a memorandum from several thousand Christians to protest against the Civil Unions Bill.

Former president FW de Klerk’s spokesperson Dave Steward believes he and his wife were ”very lucky” to have emerged relatively unscathed from an armed robbery at their Claremont, Cape Town, home. Steward said on Friday that he and his wife Lanice were attacked as they prepared to reverse out of their garage to visit her elderly parents at 6.15pm on Sunday.

The fraud trial of former national fast bowler Garth le Roux and his accountant began in Cape Town’s Wynberg Regional Court on Monday with a claim that he was being prosecuted maliciously. In a plea explanation read into the record by his advocate, Wim Trengove, Le Roux said he had already settled most of the tax issues in the case with the South African Revenue Service.

The general secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Eddie Makue, has called for a single law governing all forms of marriage, including same-sex unions, rather than the dual legislation proposed by the government. He made the call in an open letter to Parliament’s home affairs and justice portfolio committees.