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/ 18 January 2008
Information pieced together by the Mail & Guardian suggests the Presidency, the Justice and Constitutional Development Department, National Intelligence Agency and South African Police Service joined in a desperate effort to prevent police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi from being charged.
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/ 18 January 2008
At least nine civilians were shot dead by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels in southern Sri Lanka, the military said on Friday, two days after 27 people were killed in a bus ambush in a nearby town. A six-year truce between the state and rebels formally ended on Wednesday.
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/ 18 January 2008
South African President Thabo Mbeki met his Zimbabwean counterpart on Thursday after local media reports that he was stepping in to break a deadlock in talks aimed at ending Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises. Mbeki met with Robert Mugabe at a hotel for four hours and also met with members of the political opposition.
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/ 18 January 2008
Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira’s tinkering in the two warm-up matches before the team leaves on Saturday for the African Cup of Nations in Ghana has raised eyebrows. How will captain Aaron Mokoena cope with his shift in position from central defence into a holding midfield role once the opposition become more serious about attacking Bafana?
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/ 18 January 2008
The past week was particularly bad for business and consumers who experienced repeated power cuts across the country. Gautrain’s head offices in Johannesburg, where one of the country’s biggest infrastructure projects is being planned, experienced three power cuts on Monday between 8am and 8pm, writes Jocelyn Newmarch.
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/ 18 January 2008
Bread producers are allegedly continuing to collude on price-setting even though an investigation is ongoing and there is a political row heating up on the most recent cost hikes. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> understands that Foodcorp contacted Tiger Brands less than a month ago to find out when it would be raising its bread prices.
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/ 18 January 2008
Abused girls in Zimbabwe have a new heroine. She might not wear a cape or have a signature martial arts move, but this woman has saved numerous girls from terrible circumstances and created a better life for them. Children’s rights activist Betty Makoni, the founding director of the Girl Child Network Trust, is Zimbabwe’s own Superwoman.
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/ 18 January 2008
In last week’s court application to block his prosecution, Jackie Selebi swore he was never “involved in any bribery and/or corruption”. Why, then, did he lie to the Mail & Guardian about meeting Brett Kebble, who bankrolled bribes Glenn Agliotti allegedly paid him? Before the M&G‘s first exposé in May 2006, Selebi admitted in an interview that Agliotti was his “friend, finish and klaar”.
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/ 18 January 2008
Government’s fiery bid to get rid of suspended prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli is slowly losing steam, with indications that a shutdown of Frene Ginwala’s inquiry might be on the cards. President Thabo Mbeki suspended Pikoli four months ago pending an inquiry into his “fitness to hold office”.
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/ 18 January 2008
There is gleeful laughter coming from Michigan in the wake of Mitt Romney’s victory in that state’s primary — some of it emanating from the Romney camp. The win was crucial for him — if he’d lost his third straight contest he’d have been offering his withdrawal speech. So he lives to fight another day. But the loudest chuckles are coming from Democrats.