It’s been a long and hard journey with eclectic influences but Malatji’s first album looks set to become a hit.
Advocates for Transformation this week reacted to the Hlophe uproar by rejecting calls for his suspension.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe will face a tough, courtroom-style interrogation by the disciplinary committee of the Judical Service Commission.
The ANC and the Gauteng government have both hinted darkly that a ”third force” is stoking and orchestrating xenophobic violence — without producing a shred of evidence to support this conspiracy theory. Although it has not been made explicit, the suggestion is that the Inkatha Freedom Party is the culprit.
Police capacity to handle riots was virtually destroyed in a restructuring exercise in 2006, leaving officers ill-equipped to handle the wave of xenophobic violence that has swept the country in the past two weeks, researchers say. As the violence in Gauteng worsened this week, the police scrambled to bring in extra capacity from around the country.
The past decade has been torrid for South African farmers, with a nexus of factors conspiring to scare them away from their ”way of life”. The first of these, say most farmers quizzed by the Mail & Guardian, is the uncertainty created by South Africa’s land restitution and reform process.
The South African government is not opposed to civil action by victims against companies which operated in the country under apartheid — as long as the litigation takes place within South Africa’s borders, chief state law adviser Enver Daniels said this week.
The Scorpions’ successful model of investigation will be destroyed by legislation tabled in Parliament this week which absorbs the unit’s investigators into the police. The government previously indicated that the unit’s model of prosecution-led investigations would be incorporated into the new “super” unit set up to tackle organised crime.
The government’s astonishing bid to protect police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi from being arrested was laid bare this week in minute detail by suspended prosecutions boss Vusi Pikoli. Compelling evidence produced by Pikoli at the Ginwala inquiry in Johannesburg indicates President Thabo Mbeki and several other senior government officials colluded to save Selebi.
Cosatu and the ANC Women’s League have climbed into bed with business people punting an untested ”booster pack” for people living with HIV/Aids.