German prosecutors have found no evidence linking the country’s industrial giant ThyssenKrupp to corruption in South Africa’s arms deal.
The South African Post Office is trying to contact internet retailer Amazon.com for details on why it offers limited shipping facilities to SA.
The ANC on Tuesday slammed as ”reckless” a youth leader’s threat to take up arms for party head Jacob Zuma as he faces corruption charges.
The winner of the European Union Literary Award for 2007/08 will be announced during the Cape Town Book Fair.
The African National Congress’s Western Cape secretary, Mcebisi Skwatsha, was stabbed in the neck at an ANC meeting on Thursday evening.
After almost 40 institutions had denounced Eskom’s proposed 53% tariff increase, it was up to the power utility’s CEO on Thursday to convince the regulator why the massive hike was necessary. Eskom chief executive Jacob Maroga was due to be the last speaker after three days of public hearings in Pretoria on the proposed tariff increase.
The government has denied deciding to set up refugee camps for foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence. Reports suggesting such a move were ”baseless and therefore not true”, it said on Wednesday. ”The government has noted with concern media reports that the Cabinet has taken a decision to establish refugee camps,” a statement said.
Opposition parties on Monday lambasted the government for its handling of xenophobic violence in parts of the country, and even called for the army to be deployed. Mobs roaming through poor townships around Johannesburg have killed and beaten up immigrants over the past week, with Zimbabweans and others reporting purges by armed locals.
Fraud suspect J Arthur Brown was allegedly raped in the back of a police van last week, the Sunday Times reported. Brown’s attorney, William Booth, said the former Fidentia boss — accused of theft and fraud involving hundreds of millions of rands — suffered an ”extremely humiliating” sexual assault.
One man has been shot dead and two injured in Tembisa, where the latest xenophobic attacks have occurred, police said on Saturday as a protest march in central Johannesburg drew attention to the week’s violence that has already gripped Alexandra and Diepsloot in Gauteng.