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The Jacob Zuma rape trial was adjourned shortly after he pleaded not guilty at the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. This was to allow court officials to choose who will be allowed inside the court for the complainant’s testimony to be held in camera.
Hollywood seems to have embraced the South African reality of crime, grime and poverty after Tsotsi won the best foreign-language film Oscar on Sunday. The story of a violent young criminal living dangerously in and around the townships of Johannesburg has been lauded for its apt depiction of life for millions today.
South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Friday that he had never referred to saboteurs at Koeberg. Speaking at a press conference at Koeberg, outside Cape Town, he said this had been media spin. ”I did not use the term ‘sabotage’,” Erwin said.
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/ 27 February 2006
R&B sensation Tsakani "TK" Mhinga was on Monday found dead in a Bryanston hotel, northern Johannesburg, police said. "We didn’t find any physical injuries on her body, but we will wait for the post-mortem report and the medical report" to establish the cause of death, a police spokesperson told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i>.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Minority Front (MF) will only accept responsibility "for the conduct" of its member responsible for writing an MF advertorial described as "racist", said party leader Amichand Rajbansi on Friday. The controversial MF advertorial was published in the <i>Durban Chatsworth Tabloid</i>.
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/ 9 February 2006
Hundreds of Muslims, expected to march in central Cape Town on Thursday to protest against cartoons caricaturing the prophet Muhammad, would have to abide by strict conditions or face possible arrest, the City of Cape Town said. Meanwhile, the Cabinet and the South African National Editors’ Forum have reacted to the controversy.
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/ 7 February 2006
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African Communist Party in KwaZulu-Natal have warned of mass action against the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in the next two weeks over its coverage of axed former deputy president Jacob Zuma, who goes on trial for rape on February 13.
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/ 24 January 2006
A tremor of a magnitude of 3,6 on the Richter scale was recorded in the East Rand, 8km north-west of Germiston, on Tuesday at 11.13am, said Ian Saunders, project leader for the South African National Seismograph Network at the Council for Geoscience in Pretoria. The tremor was felt in many parts of Johannesburg.
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/ 24 January 2006
The Nelson Mandela metropolitan council has dropped plans to rebury the remains of President Thabo Mbeki’s late father, Govan, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. The municipality earlier announced plans to relocate his remains to the newly built Red Location Museum. However, the family objected.
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/ 20 January 2006
Most South Africans come from backgrounds that frown on homosexuality, says the African Christian Democratic Party. "That is a fact. We cannot support a situation where a minority is attempting to impose its will on the majority," the ACDP’s mayoral candidate for Cape Town, Pauline Cupido, said on Friday.