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/ 26 February 2008
Security guard Richard Engelbrecht on Tuesday persisted in his defence of ”temporary, non-pathological criminal incapacity” due to his abuse of the drug tik as his trial for the alleged rape and murder of 11-year-old schoolgirl Annestacia Wiese drew to a close.
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/ 26 February 2008
An application to have a Labour Department inquiry into workers’ exposure to poisonous fumes at a Cato Ridge ferromanganese smelter dismissed because of alleged bias was itself dismissed to loud cheers on Tuesday afternoon by the inquiry’s presiding officer, departmental inspector Vuli Sibisi.
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/ 26 February 2008
The Mpumalanga local government hopes to boost the provincial economy, attract investment and create employment over the next two years. The economy, investment and employment executive council committee on Tuesday outlined some of the projects to be undertaken during this period.
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/ 26 February 2008
The confiscation of ”R30-million to R40-million”-worth of assets from Schabir Shaik following his fraud and corruption conviction was out of proportion to his ”friend” Jacob Zuma’s intervention in one arms-deal dispute, the Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday.
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/ 26 February 2008
An Egyptian military court has delayed by a month a verdict on 40 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood who face charges of belonging to a banned group, Brotherhood officials said on Tuesday. Brotherhood lawyer Abdel Moniem Abdel Maqsoud said the court set March 25 as the new date for a verdict for the men.
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/ 26 February 2008
There was no dictator in Zimbabwe, just unwelcome outside interference, its ambassador to South Africa Simon Khaya Moyo said in Pretoria on Tuesday. Britain and the United States were financially backing the opposition because they wanted President Robert Mugabe out of power over his land reforms, Moyo said.
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/ 26 February 2008
French President Nicholas Sarkozy will be accompanied by 40 key French business chief executives during his visit to South Africa, director general in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Gert Grobler, said on Tuesday. Sarkozy will arrive in Cape Town on Thursday where he will meet President Thabo Mbeki to discuss political, economic and business ties.
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/ 26 February 2008
The unnecessary confinement and transportation of elephants for entertainment purposes has left the National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) ”seriously perturbed”. It was on Tuesday responding to the Norms and Standards for the Management of Elephants in South Africa, announced a day before.
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/ 26 February 2008
South African government plans to halve poverty and unemployment by 2014 appeared increasingly at risk on Tuesday as official statistics confirmed fears of a downturn in economic growth. Figures released by Statistics South Africa showed a drop in gross domestic product growth to 5,1% last year from 5,4% in 2006.
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/ 26 February 2008
South Africa’s economic growth jumped unexpectedly in the fourth quarter of 2007, keeping expansion for the year near a two-decade record at 5,1% as buoyant corporates outweighed slower consumer spending. Africa’s biggest economy has remained resilient despite higher interest rates, although growth is likely to slow in 2008.