Law enforcement agencies must act far more aggressively enforce the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, which makes it an offence to belong to a criminal gang and recruit others into a gang, official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said after visiting Cape Town’s gang heartland of Hanover Park.
The economic vision of the formerly ruling Inkatha Freedom Party in the KwaZulu homeland is being played out even today in KwaZulu-Natal, former premier Lionel Mtshali said on Tuesday. He also said the institutions set up in the former non-independent homeland are still providing key financial and banking services to the poor.
The Department of Home Affairs has slammed the statements of a former senior official who described the department as suffering from "a national crisis" over the issuing of passports. It has also rejected calls made for the resignation of Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and her deputy.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has appeared to endorse the notion of collective guilt for apartheid in comments made about whites, says South Africa’s leader of the opposition. Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said in his regular Friday column, <i>SA Today</i>, that Tutu is, indeed, "no racial nationalist".
There was no national energy crisis in South Africa and the contention that the recent Western Cape power outages were impacting on investment was dismissed by Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin on Tuesday. He said conjecture that South Africa had turned away an investor in a second aluminium smelter was not true.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The African National Congress and the Independent Democrats are keeping mum on an apparent deal that has been struck with a third smaller party for control of the Cape Town metropolitan council, according to the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
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Power-broker Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats (ID) wants to convince Cape Town’s two major political parties, the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the African National Congress (ANC) to work together in a unity government in Cape Town and 23 other Western Cape towns.
South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Friday that he had never referred to saboteurs at Koeberg. Speaking at a press conference at Koeberg, outside Cape Town, he said this had been media spin. ”I did not use the term ‘sabotage’,” Erwin said.
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South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has polled over 70,3% in Wednesday’s election in the latest results provided by the Independent Electoral Commission. The key Cape Town metro result has still not been finally declared but it is expected later on Friday morning.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>Official opposition Democratic Alliance leader, Tony Leon, held out the olive branch to Independent Democrats (ID) leader Patricia de Lille. The DA leader said party was willing, on a case-by-case basis, to enter into opposition coalitions or to participate in minority governments in municipal councils.