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/ 17 November 2006
While the world worries about an oversupply of carbon dioxide, caused by increasing emissions, in South Africa we’ve almost run out of carbon dioxide (CO2) to put into soft drinks. The national CO2 shortage has in the past four weeks affected normal production of Coca-Cola brands, and it is likely to persist right into the new year.
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/ 10 November 2006
The South African peacekeeping mission in Burundi struggled for four years with chaotic accounting systems, inadequate logistical support and complex supply lines that left numerous vehicles and other equipment unserviceable, ammunition supplies vulnerable to theft and accident, and made it impossible for the mission to balance its books.
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/ 10 November 2006
Right-hand-driven Cadillacs will officially be available for sale in South Africa from February 2007, motor vehicle giant company General Motors South Africa (GMSA) has announced. GMSA plans are to release three new marques, the BLS mid-size sedan, SRX Crossover SUV and the STS full-size sedan.
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/ 9 November 2006
The Public Protector has found that a failure by the Social Development Minister, Zola Skweyiya, to disclose an interest-free loan granted by Imvume chief executive officer Sandi Majali to his wife constituted a breach of the executive ethics code but his wife’s acceptance of the loan by itself did not.
The newly elected PAC president, Letlapa Mphahlele, ordered the 1993 attacks on Cape Town’s St James Church and Heidelberg Tavern. He speaks candidly, to the Mail & Guardian about his past and the embattled party’s future.
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/ 29 September 2006
Two weeks ago I connected with gun dealers on the streets of Sharpeville in the Vaal Triangle. They agreed to lease me an AK-47 for a day for R2Â 000. After two months of telephonic negotiation with the dealers — former Umkhonto we Sizwe and African People’s Liberation Army cadres — the deal was struck, writes the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Monako Dibetle.
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/ 1 September 2006
The homeless man who was arrested on Wednesday after claiming in a radio interview to have witnessed Brett Kebble’s murder, earlier gave the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> a description of the "killer". Lesego Amos Yekane (24) was interviewed by the <i>M&G</i> on Tuesday. He described the alleged killer as a "huge man with a bald head".
Activists in Matatiele have threatened to “hit the streets again” over the area’s incorporation into the Eastern Cape, despite winning a Constitutional Court challenge to the Twelfth Amendment Act. And following the judgement the former cross-border municipalities of Moutse in Mpumalanga and Merafong in North West have said they will jointly file an urgent case against the government.
Workers interviewed by the Mail & Guardian this week generally supported the idea that the South African Communist Party should field its own candidates in elections, while expressing growing impatience with the ruling African National Congress. The M&G survey followed an SACP central committee meeting at the weekend, where party leaders discussed the option of going it alone in elections.
Five members of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) will compete for the ailing party’s top job at this year’s national conference in Qwa Qwa between September 22 and 25. Current president Motsoko Pheko, his deputy Themba Godi, secretary general Mofihli Likotsi and former Azanian People’s Liberation Army commander Letlapa Mphahlele have all indicated an interest in the party’s presidency.