Law-and-order fears, mingled with blatant xenophobia, are providing the anti-immigrant league with lush electoral pastures in the flatlands west of Venice. And its showing here could have a decisive impact on the character of the government that emerges from Italy’s general election on Sunday and Monday.
The Scorpions unit is under immense stress, acting National Prosecuting Authority head advocate Mokotedi Mpshe has conceded. In an interview with the Mail & Guardian, he warned that uncertainty about the unit’s future was having a damaging effect.
Durban businessman Sifiso Zulu has, over the past two weeks, become the city’s Scarlet Pimpernel. But, unlike the Pimpernel, rumours circulating in the city suggest that Zulu may need the intervention of friendly political aristocrats, rather than the other way around.
The African National Congress Youth League spent a massive R17-million on its national conference in Mangaung in the Free State. After the conference was aborted inconclusively, this money is now wasted. Two league leaders have said the money came from donors including the ANC, Tokyo Sexwale and Patrice Motsepe.
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President George Bush on Thursday announced a suspension of United States troop withdrawals from Iraq this summer to allow the military to reassess the security situation. The announcement came amid a spike in violence in Iraq in recent weeks.
A detective told the Cape High Court on Thursday that he became suspicious of murder accused Najwa Petersen after hearing her sobbing account on the night of her husband’s Taliep’s death. The officer was the second witness called in the trial of Petersen and the three men she allegedly hired to carry out the execution-style shooting.
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa reserved judgement on Thursday in the hearing of a complaint against the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s broadcast of a ”hate song” by hip-hop artist Zubz, said the Freedom Front Plus, which had laid a complaint about the song in February.
The African National Congress (ANC) on Thursday called on the Competition Commission to intensify its investigations into the causes of high food prices. A spokesperson said all stakeholders in food prices should convene an urgent meeting to discuss ways of minimising the effect of high food prices on the poor.