The Cabinet agreed on Wednesday to institute an investigation into foreign land ownership in South Africa and how it impacted on land reforms. Government spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe said in Pretoria that the audit would be run by the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs.
Negotiating parties played a waiting game in Pretoria on Monday as South Africa’s two top statesmen attempted to broker a Burundian power-sharing agreement. Generally regarded as the most powerful party in the talks, the CNDD-FDD was not sure if a conclusion would be reached before its departure on Tuesday.
Investment in the South African economy appears to be on track, said Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana in Pretoria on Thursday following President Thabo Mbeki’s meeting with big business. A meeting was held at the Union Buildings to discuss progress made since the establishment of goals during the Growth and Development Summit in June last year.
The South African government will send a delegation to Equatorial Guinea to ensure that the trial of eight South Africans arrested in that country — for allegedly plotting to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema — will be conducted in a fair manner. The Minister of Foreign Affairs announced this in Pretoria on Wednesday.
The government has shocked public service unions by declaring a dispute following two months of wage negotiations in Centurion, unions said on Friday. A Department of Public Service and Administration spokesperson said the government feels there has been no ”movement” since the start of negotiations.
South Africa and Rwanda will be sending troops to Sudan as part of a United Nations initiative to bring peace to the region, South African defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota said in Kigali on Monday. South Africa is expected to contribute 10 high-ranking soldiers to the peace effort to act as platoon leaders. Rwanda was expected to provide 100 soldiers.
Shaking his head incredulously, South Africa’s Minister of Defence, Mosiuoa Lekota, stared at a bed of skeletons when he visited the Murambi Genocide Memorial in southern Rwanda on Tuesday. Survivors of the 1994 genocide in which about 800Â 000 Hutus and Tutsis were massacred claim the killings have not stopped.
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The Gauteng deputy director of public prosecutions, (Scorpions) Cornwell Tshavhungwa, had his R100 000 bail on corruption charges cancelled by a Pretoria magistrate on Wednesday. Specialised Commercial Crimes Court magistrate Desmond Nair found that Tshavhungwa had breached his bail conditions by contacting a witness.
An undisclosed number of referees were expected to be arrested over the next few days as police conclude their initial investigation into professional soccer match fixing, police spokesperson Director Sally de Beer confirmed on Sunday. ”We have made no arrests yet but are now in a position do so,” she said, explaining that this came after the South Africa Football Association (Safa) asked them to conduct an investigation two months ago.