Security company Omega International Associates has denied its employees arrested in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were involved in a coup plot. The Department of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday that 26 people were arrested in the DRC on Friday on allegations of ”destabilisation of government institutions”.
The government has done what it can for a group of protesting former miners from the Eastern Cape, and urged them to go back home. ”We are not resisting to pay the claims; we are willing to, especially when it comes to the elderly,” Boas Seruwe, acting Unemployment Insurance Fund commissioner, said on Tuesday.
Africa should get to the point where discussions about peace and security on the continent are no longer needed, the President of the Pan African Parliament, Gertrude Mongella, said on Tuesday. Briefing the media after the start of the fifth sitting of the Parliament in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, Mongella said while some conflicts were resolved new ones kept coming onto the agenda.
Two South African pilots were killed on Thursday when their plane crashed on approach to the town of Lubutu in the northern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The pilots died when the South African-registered Convair 580 aircraft they were piloting fell from the sky on approach to the Amisi airport at Lubutu.
Deputy Defence Minister Mluleki George said on Thursday he would try to determine what resources South Africa can commit to help secure the landmark election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On Wednesday the DRC’s Defence Minister, Adolphe Onusumba, presented a long list of needs for the country’s defence force.
The deployment of European troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo should not create an impression that Africa had failed to secure the coming elections in the country, South African Deputy Defence Minister Mluleki George said on Wednesday.
Sexual relations between the president and women Cabinet ministers, opposition leader Tony Leon being for the ”white man struggle”, and racist talks between Scorpions investigators are all part of the National Intelligence Agency’s hoax e-mail saga. On Thursday, the inspector general of intelligence declared the e-mails to be false.
Protesting security guards in Pretoria began to disperse on Thursday afternoon after their strike turned violent earlier, with a security vehicle set alight and rubbish strewn in the inner city. At one stage police fired rubber bullets at the protesting guards in an effort to calm the situation.
Savings of between 13% and 15% on medicines are on the cards if the draft regulations for pharmacies’ dispensing fees announced on Thursday are approved. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang announced the draft dispensing fees, which would be on a sliding scale.
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Even if there is a problem at midnight, people should be able to go to their councillors’ houses and wake them up to sort it out, President Thabo Mbeki told supporters at an African National Congress election rally in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, on Monday.