The Western Cape director of public prosecutions has decided not to prosecute three men arrested in connection with a fatal shootout last week in front of former president Nelson Mandela’s Constantia home, SABC radio reported on Tuesday. The three men had been facing charges of attempted murder.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) will have to hold a formal hearing regarding a complaint lodged by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies concerning a broadcast on Muslim station Radio 786 that the board alleges was anti-Jewish.
Telkom does not believe software providing free international telephone calls on the internet will impact on its revenue, it said on Tuesday. "We are more concerned from a legal and regulatory perspective," said Andrew Weldrick, a Telkom spokesperson.
The Treatment Action Campaign said on Tuesday it would file court papers against the Department of Health if Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang failed to respond by Wednesday to the TAC’s demands to supply Aids patients with anti-retrovirals.
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The re-hearing in Port Elizabeth of the amnesty application of three former security policemen has been delayed by a controversy over a legal representative in the case. Gideon Nieuwoudt, Wybrand du Toit and Marthinus Ras are applying for amnesty for the 1989 car bomb death of the so-called Motherwell Four.
Russia’s navy chief said on Tuesday that he has ordered the nuclear battle cruiser Peter the Great rushed back to port, warning that its condition was so deplorable that ”it could explode at any moment”. Vladimir Kuroyedov said he ordered the measure after a tour of the ship on Wednesday last week during naval exercises in the Barents Sea.
Black economic empowerment company Makana Financial Services is to acquire a 10% strategic investment in listed South African specialist financial services group Cadiz Holdings for R41-million.
Hopes that the recent truce between Argentina and the International Monetary Fund would be sealed with the release of a further ,1-billion loan from the Washington-based lender pushed share prices in Buenos Aires to record highs for the second trading day in a row on Monday.
The Italian car-maker Ferrari Maserati is to try to cash in on Moscow’s metamorphosis from the crumbling capital of an impoverished superpower into a decadent playground for the super-rich.