Architect Dawid Rabie will give evidence in the Cape High Court on Wednesday as first witness called by the state in the LeisureNet trial, prosecutor Bruce Morrison announced on Tuesday. Morrison was addressing the court after all four accused entered pleas of not guilty.
The Cape High Court is to rule on Tuesday on an application by one of the four accused in the LeisureNet trial for his hearing to be separated from the others. The application by Hans Moser was made on Monday morning as the trial, which has been set down for six weeks, got under way before acting Judge Dirk Uijs.
Planning for Cape Town’s proposed Green Point stadium, earmarked as venue for a 2010 Soccer World Cup semifinal, appears to be back on track following a meeting between city mayor Helen Zille and Fifa local organising committee (LOC) members on Thursday. ”I think the mayor is comfortable right now that the city will not be bankrupt,” LOC chairperson Irvin Khoza said afterwards.
The Independent Democrats has still not made a decision on the Democratic Alliance offer of a share in the government of the city of Cape Town, ID spokesperson Mervyn Cirota said on Tuesday night. He said ID and DA negotiators met on Monday, and on Tuesday reported back to their principals on ”issues”.
Former president Nelson Mandela at one stage asked PW Botha to re-enter politics and resume the leadership of the National Party, Botha says in a filmed interview with former South African Broadcasting Corporation journalist Cliff Saunders. In the interview Botha says it is well known that Mandela at his own request met him several times, in Cape Town and at Botha’s Wilderness home.
Vitamin salesman Matthias Rath on Wednesday renewed his offensive against Aids lobby group the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), saying it should be banned. The attack comes less than a week after a full bench of the Cape High Court granted the TAC an interim interdict against Rath and the foundation.
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/ 26 February 2006
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President Thabo Mbeki took the African National Congress’s local government campaign into the Transkei heartland of the United Democratic Movement on Saturday. In a series of stops, he made his way from the Wild Coast through the heart of the Mqanduli area where UDM leader Bantu Holomisa was born.
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/ 20 February 2006
The judge in the baby Jordan Leigh Norton murder case is to rule on Tuesday on a media bid to publish photographs of key evidence in the trial, including fingerprints. Judge Basheer Waglay reserved judgement on Monday after hearing argument from counsel for the Independent Newspapers group as well as the state.
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/ 15 February 2006
A tax deduction on the expenses of dating was one of the ”tips for Trevor” that didn’t make it into Wednesday’s Budget. But Finance Minister Trevor Manuel still thought it worth sharing with MPs. He said citizens and civil society organisations had again been generous in offering suggestions for the Budget.
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/ 15 February 2006
Ordinary South Africans — except those who are heavy smokers and drinkers — will be walking with a spring in their step after Wednesday’s Budget. Following the pattern set in previous budgets, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has again wooed individual taxpayers with tax relief that will this year allow them to hang on to R13,1-billion.