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Around 2 000 people had by 11am assembled at Alexandra Stadium, north of Johannesburg, ahead of a civil society march on the Sandton Convention Centre where the World Summit on Sustainable Development is being held.
South Africa’s Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has vehemently denied reports that the SA National Defence Force was not ready to defend the country.
”Dental reasons” have reduced the number of troops that can be deployed internationally at one South African infantry battalion from 612 to a mere 138.
Paratroopers and helicopters are to descend on several Bloemfontein suburbs from early on Friday morning as the first phase of one of the largest SA National Defence Force exercises in recent years kicks into gear.
Analysts and political parties agreed on Monday that right-wing elements who had ”declared war” on the government and were plotting to overthrow it by armed force posed little real danger.
Elliot and Cala in the Eastern Cape were still cut off from the national power grid and road contact with the outside world on Sunday afternoon.
The Constitutional Court on Thursday confirmed the Pretoria High Court’s ruling that same-sex couples should have the right to the same financial benefits as married couples.
The police’s administrative structure is eating up its crime-fighting budget and the number of commissioners currently in the service dwarfs the number of generals in the SA National Defence Force.
President Thabo Mbeki opened the JSE Securities Exchange on Friday morning, launching the bourse’s new equities market trading and information system