Unanswered questions remain following the brouhaha after the <i>Sunday Times</i> again found that banned industrial chemical dyes in certain chilli condiments.
President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday officially welcomed five diplomats appointed to represent their respective countries in South Africa. The diplomats are from the republics of India, Seychelles and Suriname, the Kingdom of Denmark and the Sultanate of Oman.
The Cape Town city council on Thursday afternoon approved a R2,9-billion budget for its 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium at Green Point. The approval brings to an end most of the uncertainty that has surrounded the funding of the 68Â 000-seater structure, destined to host a semifinal.
The Constitution Court on Thursday declared unconstitutional certain sections of the Criminal Procedure Act governing the rights of convicts to appeal against their convictions and sentences. The matter arose from two cases and related to Section 309 of the 1977 Act.
Western Cape provincial minister of education Cameron Dugmore was discussing projects when he visited the school where former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni is doing his community service, his office said on Thursday. Yengeni is working at the Siyazama school for mentally challenged children in Guguletu.
British actor John Inman, famous for his role as an eccentric shop assistant in the BBC comedy Are You Being Served?, died on March 8 at the age of 71, his manager said. Inman died in the early hours at Saint Mary’s Hospital in west London after a long battle with hepatitis A.
The head of the Tintin studio announced on Thursday that Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks company has committed to produce at least one movie on the famed Belgian cartoon character. Hergé Studios head Nick Rodwell said the Hollywood company will go into pre-production of a Tintin movie.
The Bloemfontein High Court on Thursday postponed an urgent court interdict sought by four African National Congress (ANC) members to suspend the election of new office bearers at a northern Free State ANC regional conference. The matter was suspended to March 29 for consideration by the court.
An elderly man who shot dead his teenage lover after receiving a suspended sentence for assaulting her was on Thursday jailed for an effective 15 years. Moegamat Saiat Patrick (66) was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment on charges of murder, statutory rape and the illegal possession of a gun and ammunition.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has testified he launched last year’s war against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon in line with a contingency plan he approved four months before, the Haaretz daily said on Thursday. Olmert told a judicial inquiry last month that Hezbollah’s capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 triggered the plans for a large-scale attack, the Israeli newspaper said.