Johannesburg’s Gold Reef City theme park on Wednesday relaunched its heart-stopping Tower of Terror after spending more than R10-million.
The Johannesburg High Court has granted an urgent interdict preventing the relocation of foreigners displaced by xenophobic attacks who are being accommodated at the city’s Cleveland and Jeppe police stations, Lawyers for Human Rights said on Monday.
Itumeleng Khune and not Teko Modise should have been named the Premier Soccer League’s (PSL) best footballer this season if coaches had voted along the lines they suggested to the Mail & Guardian this week. The credibility of the selection is being compared to that of the Zimbabwean election.
The ANC and the Gauteng government have both hinted darkly that a ”third force” is stoking and orchestrating xenophobic violence — without producing a shred of evidence to support this conspiracy theory. Although it has not been made explicit, the suggestion is that the Inkatha Freedom Party is the culprit.
Ronnie Kasrils, Minister of Intelligence, said on Tuesday that "we are not just seeing spontaneous xenophobic attacks". "There are many social issues at the root of the problem, but we have reason to believe that there are many other organisations involved in sparking the attacks. We are currently analysing the situation."
Leadership elections at the ANC’s provincial congress in the North West province underscore the fact that President Thabo Mbeki is not a spent force in the party. The Mbeki camp won the top five positions, beating candidates aligned with ANC president Jacob Zuma by an average margin of 200 votes for each post.
North West premier Edna Molewa is set to lose her position as ANC provincial chairperson in what members say is the price for her indecision ahead of the Polokwane presidential vote last year. Molewa does not feature in the two leadership lists that have been circulated ahead of the party’s provincial conference at Sun City next week.
The escalating fuel price has seen South Africans discarding gas guzzlers in favour of smaller, more fuel-efficient cars.Although car sales overall are down 23% compared with last year, small car sales are up by 25%, according to figures from the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa.
In the Southern African Development Community about 45% of the population lives in extreme poverty. For many poor people in the region informal trade is the only way to sustain themselves and their families. Governments in the region, however, ignore this parallel economy, hampering their citizens’ attempts to survive, say experts.
”I’m very happy for what has happened in court, I’m proud that I was the first woman to stand up and fight for women’s right to wear what they want to wear. For many years in T-section in Umlazi, women were not allowed to wear pants, but for the first time now, they have the freedom to wear them without having anyone intimidate them.”