There is no crisis in the African National Congress, the party’s deputy president Jacob Zuma told the National Union of Mineworkers on Wednesday. ”Many commentators and analysts would have you believe that there is a crisis in the ANC,” Zuma told the 12th national congress of the union at Gallagher Estate in Midrand. ”That is not so. There is no crisis in the ruling party.”
A huge fire engulfed the cargo section of Istanbul’s international Atatürk airport on Wednesday. Black smoke billowed high into the air, television footage showed. The fire caused panic at the airport, and authorities were trying to evacuate hundreds of people from nearby terminals.
Nineteen South Africans have been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alongside three Americans and four Nigerians on allegations of ”destabilisation of government institutions”, the South African Department of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday.
South African athlete Ernst van Dyk was named Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday. Swiss tennis superstar Roger Federer was named World Sportsman of the Year for the second straight year, with the women’s honour going to Croatian skier Janica Kostelic.
President Thabo Mbeki announced a Cabinet reshuffle on Monday, following the death earlier this month of minister of public works Stella Sigcau. Her post will now be filled by Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza. Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy Lulama Xingwana will become Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs.
National police chief Jackie Selebi won’t be engaging in any debate surrounding his call for the demise of the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD), said police spokesperson, Director Sally de Beer on Friday. Business Day newspaper on Thursday reported Selebi as saying the directorate had ”outlived its usefulness” and could be dissolved, leaving the police to police themselves.
Tributes and messages of condolence streamed in on Wednesday afternoon after former KwaZulu-Natal social welfare minister Prince Gideon Zulu (72) died on Tuesday evening following a long illness. United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa hailed Zulu as a ”fierce warrior … who showed humility and warmth”.
Tributes and messages of condolence streamed in on Wednesday afternoon after former KwaZulu-Natal social welfare minister Prince Gideon Zulu (72) died on Tuesday evening following a long illness. United Democratic Movement president Bantu Holomisa hailed Zulu as a ”fierce warrior … who showed humility and warmth”.
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The African National Congress said on Monday that its deputy president, Jacob Zuma, would be resuming his duties ”without delay” after he stepped down from active duty while his rape trial was under way. Zuma was acquitted of rape in the Johannesburg High Court on May 8.
A boy accused of killing the cousin of United States R&B singer Ashanti Douglas in a car accident last month was granted bail at the Randburg Magistrate’s Court, a court official said on Thursday. The 17-year-old minor was remanded into the care of his parents as part of the conditions of bail on Wednesday.