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/ 26 November 2005
The government will only consider bringing in the defence force to tackle cash-in-transit gunmen and mall robbers if the situation is ”out of control”, the Department of Safety and Security said on Friday. ”If things turn out of control, I am sure the necessary steps can and will be considered,” a departmental spokesperson said.
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/ 17 November 2005
The parliamentary committee looking into the viability of the Gautrain needed to do a ”bit more work” before it decided on the project’s future, Gauteng finance minister, Paul Mashatile, said on Thursday. The parliamentary transport portfolio committee recently recommended that the Gautrain should not go ahead.
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/ 14 November 2005
The R16-billion that will flow into Venfin after it sells its stake in Vodacom to UK-based Vodafone has raised speculation about what will become of its media asset, e.tv. If Venfin shareholders accept the offer, its assets, which include 33 percent of e.tv, a seven percent stake in Dimension Data and a 25 percent share in Alexander Forbes, will be sold into a new unlisted company, Newco.
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/ 12 November 2005
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma sang and danced with his supporters in Durban on Saturday morning shortly after hearing that his corruption trial would start in the high court on July 31 next year. Speaking in Zulu, Zuma explained the judicial process to the crowd.
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/ 10 November 2005
The company that prints the <i>Saturday Star</i> is staying mum on why thousands of copies of the newspaper were not delivered to subscribers two weeks ago. A problem at the Newspaper Printing Company’s printing presses in Johannesburg prevented the distribution of the October 29 issue of the newspaper.
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/ 7 November 2005
Malawi has been hit by a food crisis after a drought last season caused its staple maize crop to fail. The maize price has shot up to 50 kwacha a kilogram (R2,50) in some areas, but for those with money it is possible to buy cheaper rationed amounts from the government. Many in the poverty-stricken country earn just a few kwacha a day and cannot afford maize.
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/ 2 November 2005
The 2010 Soccer World Cup will probably cost companies R750-million in worker absenteeism, a report said on Wednesday. It is predicted that at least one in three South African employees will take time off — disguised as sick leave — to watch soccer, according to the report by absentee management company AIC Insurance.
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/ 31 October 2005
Two sisters from Napasha Village in southern Malawi wake up before the sun rises and start walking to the maize fields a few kilometres away. Along the way they stop to eat a slice of bread with the anti-retroviral medicine given them by the Malawian government.
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/ 12 October 2005
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma has promised to reveal the reasons for his implication in corruption charges after his court battle that starts next year, but his remarks could test the tempers of African National Congress seniors who have ordered leaders to put up a united front.
Cape High Court Judge President John Hlophe has dismissed as ”utter rubbish” allegations that he racially abused a top white lawyer and told him to go back to The Netherlands. Hlophe said on Wednesday night he had no idea where the allegations came from. ”It is absolute rubbish,” he said.