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/ 27 October 2006
The eThekwini Municipality’s policy on informal business may need reviewing after the Durban High Court allowed photographer Khehla Vilakazi to continue snapping tourists on the city’s beaches to provide for his wife and five children. The case turns a particularly harsh spotlight on the city’s Public Realm Management Plan, introduced last year.
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/ 27 October 2006
Every day, the United States bars entry to a thousand visitors with valid entry visas, Mark Schlachter, the United States embassy spokesperson, revealed recently. Schlachter was speaking in the wake of US immigration authorities’ refusal to allow South African academic and human rights activist Adam Habib entry into the United States recently.
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/ 27 October 2006
Last week saw the 20th anniversary of the air accident in which Mozambican president Samora Machel lost his life along with some 25 other passengers on a Soviet-built and crewed Tupolev TU-134 aircraft. Few will deny that Machel’s death was a grave loss to his country and, in a wider sense, to African politics. What cannot be denied are the extraordinary and often quite bizarre circumstances surrounding investigations into the crash.
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/ 27 October 2006
ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma, desperate to maintain a clean image in the ANC’s bitter leadership race, has unleashed his ideological bulldogs on Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. Zuma tends to sit on his hands when mud is flung at him because he wants to be seen as a unifying figure.
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/ 26 October 2006
Talk Radio 702 presenter Tim Modise has been appointed executive director of communications and commercial affairs for the 2010 Soccer World Cup Local Organising Committee, station manager Pheladi Gwangwa said on Thursday. Modise, who hosts the 9am to midday slot on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk, will take up the post in January.
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/ 26 October 2006
The 14-nation Southern African Community (SADC) will have to either streamline or improve norms to meet its 2008 target for a free-trade area, a senior official from the bloc said on Thursday. ”Processes at the border posts, including documentation will have to be improved so that movement of goods will become faster,” said Timothy Thahane, Finance Minister of Lesotho.
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/ 26 October 2006
Many commuters will be left stranded on Friday morning as Johannesburg taxi operators join those in Pretoria for a march to the Union Buildings, the National Taxi Alliance said. Operators will be protesting against the proposed taxi recapitalisation process due to start from Saturday, said spokesperson Sicelo Mabaso on Thursday.
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/ 26 October 2006
An Ethiopian parliamentary probe has determined the death toll from post-election violence last year was triple the government’s earlier figure but found no evidence of excessive force by authorities, officials said on Thursday. A panel investigating two explosions of unrest after the disputed May 2005 polls said 199 people died, more than three times the original official number of 54.
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/ 26 October 2006
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Allegations of racism at the University of KwaZulu-Natal were cause for concern, Jacob Zuma told students at the investiture of the university’s student representative council on Thursday. The former deputy president, who had been invited to speak at the university’s Westville campus in Durban by the newly elected SRC, said: ”If you get hooked on racism you become a slave.”
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/ 26 October 2006
The 2010 Fifa World Cup holds untold benefits for South Africa and all citizens need to ensure its success, Cabinet urged on Thursday. ”Cabinet would like to reassure all South Africans that preparations are not only on track, but are also at an advanced stage, and that South Africa will be ready to host the first African Fifa World Cup,” government communications head Themba Maseko said.