The announcement of a successor to National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) boss Bulelani Ngcuka is imminent — within days, some say. President Thabo Mbeki is most likely to look inside the NPA for a replacement. It is an open secret that Ngcuka recommended one of his four deputies, Silas Ramaite, although another deputy, Willie Hofmeyr, may also be a contender.
Ngcuka tipped for Old Mutual
Local analysts are adamant that most South African Muslims are unlikely to be receptive to a fundamentalist or extreme brand of Islam. They say that while many Muslims are opposed to the United States-led war on ”terror” and feel Islam is threatened by the West, very few are likely to engage in acts of violence, especially against South African targets.
A Scorpions probe and a lawsuit brought by rugby boss Brian van Rooyen have opened a Limpopo province can of worms in which tender-rigging and financial favours to the African National Congress and former premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi are alleged.
In the Iraq "oil-for-friends" scandal that has engulfed the United Nations and the well-connected in 50 countries, many roads lead to South Africa. But Judge Richard Goldstone, appointed this week to an independent panel to probe the scandal, says there is no special significance in the fact that UN Secretary General Kofi Annan selected him.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has administered a R57-million smack to Transnet and, by implication, to Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe
In an effort to stem a global scandal that has reverberated in South Africa, United Nations chief Kofi Annan prepared this week to name an independent panel to investigate allegations of corruption in the Iraq Oil for Food Programme. In South Africa several companies, at least two of them with ties to the African National Congress, have been implicated.
The African National Congress and its two most senior officials are suing the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> for R3-million in response to articles and commentary relating to oil purchased from the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
It is a spectacularly entertaining sight, but, while it may resemble the grotesque extravagances of a Hollywood set, there’s nothing fictional about it. Although it is two decades since he took office, President Robert Mugabe’s security still takes Zimbabweans by surprise. When Mugabe travels all traffic comes to a stand-still.
Sandi Majali, whose oil deals with Saddam we exposed, is no stranger to controvery.
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/ 21 November 2003
Sonwabo Eddie Funde, the man tipped to be the ultimate authority on what South Africans will see and hear for the next four years, was branded in a bitter 2001 court battle as a hatchet man for the communications ministry and department.
Funde tops the list of candidates for the new SABC board.