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The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has rejected a proposed commission of inquiry into claims of a plot against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. ”The commission of inquiry on its own can’t resolve the underlying political problems we face,” Cosatu President Willie Madisha said on Thursday.
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Four New National Party MPLs have crossed the floor to the African National Congress, giving the ANC an outright majority in the Western Cape legislature, while former Western Cape police commissioner and member of the Western Cape legislature Lennit Max has crossed the floor to the DA.
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sibusiso Ndebele are taking the <i>City Press</i> newspaper to court over an article that alleged they were apartheid spies. "This is after the <i>City Press</i> newspaper refused to apologise and retract in full its report of August 7 2005," Lekota said on Monday evening.
The case against four men accused of raping a Belgian pupil was weakened after a newspaper published their pictures before an identity parade could be held. The four have so far refused to subject themselves to a line-up because the <i>Daily Sun</i> newspaper published photos of them after the incident.
”I still hear the sounds of people being beaten in prison. I will never forget it. It’s terrible,” said opposition MP Roy Bennett. He was addressing the Johannesburg Press Club this week, en route home from a two-month visit to Britain, where he spent time recovering from eight months in Zimbabwean prisons.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>There were no sinister motives behind the Scorpions’ swoop on the Johannesburg home of former deputy president Jacob Zuma, that of his financial adviser Schabir Shaik and other residences and offices on Thursday, said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), also denying the raids were conducted in response to Congress of South African Trade Unions statements on Zuma.
The officer investigating the case against Donovan Moodley — who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of student Leigh Matthews — will investigate the possible involvement of others in the crime. Superintendent Piet Byleveldt said although the case against Moodley (25) was closed, there were certain aspects of it that could still be probed.
The Freedom Front Plus says it is to lay a charge of fraud against Imvume Management, the company involved in the so-called Oilgate scandal, on Monday. "If you ask for money for a specific purpose and you use that money for something else, that would constitute fraud," a party spokesperson said on Sunday.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> on Friday challenged the public protector to a public debate on its report into the Oilgate saga, which the newspaper called "rather meaningless". Earlier in the day, Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana said at the release of the report that he found no evidence of wrongdoing in the scandal.
No evidence of wrongdoing has been found in the so-called Oilgate scandal, involving a payment by black empowerment company Imvume to the African National Congress, Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana said on Friday. Mushwana was speaking in Pretoria at the release of the report into the Oilgate scandal.