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/ 3 November 2005
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Nothing will stop Jacob Zuma becoming the next president of the ruling African National Congress, and possibly the country, if he is acquitted of corruption, political analysts said on Thursday. Independent analyst Aubrey Matshiqi said: ”If Zuma is acquitted, not even a bullet will stop him.”
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/ 1 November 2005
Unemployment-induced poverty was causing many government housing beneficiaries to move back into shacks, a Human Sciences Research Council report revealed on Tuesday. ”Unemployment is undermining South Africa’s housing delivery strategy,” researcher Catherine Cross told reporters in Pretoria.
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/ 31 October 2005
Plans for Southern Africa’s economic integration are unlikely to be realised by 2012 at the current tempo of implementation, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Monday at the opening of a Pretoria meeting of the South Africa-Mozambique Joint Permanent Commission for Cooperation.
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/ 17 October 2005
A rise in interest costs could cause increasing household debt to threaten the stability of South Africa’s financial system, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Monday. Household debt has been trending upward since the beginning of 2003, according to the central bank’s latest financial stability review.
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/ 14 October 2005
The Pretoria High Court has refused an application by Pretoria advocate Dirk Prinsloo to separate his sex-crimes trial from that of his former girlfriend and co-accused Cezanne Visser. Prinsloo had failed to prove that the continuation of a joint trial would cause him to suffer real prejudice, Judge Essop Patel ruled on Friday.
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/ 14 October 2005
The government was confident of meeting its objective to raise economic growth levels, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday. ”There is a sense of confidence in government about the target we are setting ourselves with regards to… raising growth, that they are realistic,” he told foreign diplomats.
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/ 13 October 2005
Sex-crimes accused Dirk Prinsloo claimed on Thursday that his former girlfriend Cezanne Visser had ulterior motives in seeking to implicate him in indecent acts with two children. ”There is an attempt by [Visser] to drag [Prinsloo] under the water,” his advocate Philip Loubser told the Pretoria High Court.
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/ 13 October 2005
The Cabinet voiced concern on Wednesday at public displays of anger at President Thabo Mbeki at the corruption court appearance of his dismissed deputy Jacob Zuma this week. Concern was expressed about the burning of T-shirts displaying Mbeki’s picture and insults directed at him, a government spokesperson said.
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/ 12 October 2005
The sex crimes trial of two Pretoria advocates was waylaid in the city’s high court on Wednesday with an application by one of the accused to be allowed to give evidence. Dirk Prinsloo sought to take the stand to explain why he wanted his trial to be separated from that of co-accused Cezanne Visser.
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/ 10 October 2005
Workers marching for an end to unemployment and job losses warned the ruling African National Congress on Monday to ignore them at its peril. ”We cannot simply be election fodder,” Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha told protesters who converged at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.