The Independent Democrats have rejected a final offer to become part of a multiparty government in the city of Cape Town, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. ”At the eleventh hour, the ID rejected this entirely reasonable offer,” said the DA’s Ryan Coetzee in a statement.
As South Africans celebrate Human Rights Day on Tuesday, some organisations will use the occasion to raise awareness of issues that particularly concern them. Human Life International said on Monday that it would continue its efforts to lobby until the human rights of all born and unborn children were legally protected.
South Africa could greatly extend its territorial waters in an extraordinary marine-land distribution exercise under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos). ”It’s the biggest single distribution of territory ever … This magnitude of territory is usually only gained by nations through the process of war,” said Ian McLachlan.
Identifying with the lead character in the Oscar-winning local film ‘Tsotsi’, former president Nelson Mandela proved a masterful storyteller.
A Tornado fighter jet refuelling a Cheetah fighter in mid-air and the SAS Amatola replenishing at sea were some of the high points noted by task-group commanders in a military exercise involving South African and German forces. Exercise Good Hope II took place around the Cape of Good Hope recently.
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/ 27 February 2006
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Criss-crossing the country’s oldest municipality, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Sunday went on a charm offensive to galvanise support in what was expected to be a tight municipal election in Beaufort West. She visited three wards — Hospitaal Heuwel, Nieuveld Park and Prince Valley — before addressing a rally in Mandlenkosi.
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/ 23 February 2006
The historic town of Tulbagh is anxiously waiting to see if Eskom goes ahead with a proposed power line to supplement the electricity needs of the Western Cape. ”We are watching developments [in Cape Town] with concern,” said John Veschini, property developer and secretary to the Tulbagh Action Committee, on Thursday.
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/ 2 February 2006
The single wound which killed baby Jordan-Leigh Norton was applied with such force that it severed the trachea and left incisions on the vertebrae, the Cape High Court heard on Thursday. ”The cause of death was a penetrating, incisive wound to the neck and the consequences thereof,” testified Yolande van der Heyde, a forensic pathologist.
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/ 27 January 2006
The fire that ravaged the lower slopes of Table Mountain’s Camps Bay side since Thursday afternoon was mostly contained by Friday morning, but the wind was key to winning the final battle, officials said. The fire, which broke out at about 4pm on Thursday, has so far destroyed 700ha of vegetation
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/ 26 January 2006
Former Beaufort West mayor Truman Prince could be expelled from the African National Congress at the weekend, members of the ANC’s Western Cape provincial executive committee said on Thursday. Twenty-three members of the ANC in the Western Cape have already been expelled.