It is only logical that when a ruling party elects its own leadership it prefers also to be electing the leadership of the country, the Gauteng African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday. ANC provincial secretary David Makhura was speaking at a press conference after the provincial executive committee’s meeting earlier this month.
Moves are afoot for South Africa’s capital city to be renamed Tshwane, the Tshwane metro council confirmed on Friday. ”Pretoria is a suburb within Tshwane …. the city centre is Pretoria … the city is Tshwane,” said spokesperson Console Tleane. This lands in the middle of debate over the legal status of the name ”Tshwane”.
More than 800 people were forced to evacuate their homes by the stormy weather that hit Cape Town on the weekend, the city’s disaster risk management centre said on Monday. And the South African Weather Service said more bad weather is on the way. Forecaster Stella Nake said Cape Town should expect another cold front on Thursday.
Judgement gets under way in the Cape High Court on Thursday morning in the trial of alleged baby-murder mastermind Dina Rodrigues and the four men the state claims she hired as hit men. Rodrigues, Sipho Mfazwe, Mongezi Bobotyane, Zanethemba Gwada and Bonginkosi Sigenu stand accused of murdering six-month-old baby Jordan-Leigh Norton.
Nine families on a farm near Saron in the Tulbagh area were spared from eviction on Monday for a few more days after the Black Association of the Wine and Spirit Industry secured a court date to try to postpone the eviction order. A Bawsi representative said the eviction order was a result of a dispute over the ownership of Ertjiesfontein farm.
Former LeisureNet bosses Peter Gardener and Rod Mitchell were on Monday jailed for an effective eight and seven years respectively. ”You let society down very very badly,” said acting Judge Dirk Uijs as he handed down the sentences in the Cape High Court.