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/ 14 December 2007
Amatola Green Power, the only company selling green power in South Africa, announced a deal this week to sell electricity to its first corporate customer, Mercedes-Benz. Amatola, which buys excess energy that sugar giants produce from bagasse, a waste product produced from sugar cane, will sell the electricity to Mercedes-Benz in terms of an agreement with the City of Tshwane.
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/ 14 December 2007
Italian Fabio Capello was named as the new England head coach until 2012 by the Football Association on Friday. The FA confirmed his appointment on a four-and-a-half year contract in a statement on its website. The 61-year-old succeeds Steve McClaren who was sacked last month after England failed to qualify for Euro 2008.
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/ 14 December 2007
The ANC’s in-house electoral commission says it is not investigating a single complaint brought to its attention. Bertha Gxowa, chairperson of the electoral commission, said the commission did not receive any complaints “within its competency”. The commission’s job is to ensure the nomination and voting process at the Polokwane conference runs smoothly.
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/ 14 December 2007
Presidential hopeful and ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma received a boost from the Mandela family as the race to see who will be the next leader of the party and the country enters the home stretch. Although Nelson Mandela chose to keep mum throughout the bitter succession battle, his former wife and grandson have come out in support of a Zuma presidency for South Africa.
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/ 14 December 2007
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s own minister for human rights objected, in the most colourful language, accusing her boss of allowing Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi to use France as a doormat on which he could wipe his shoes of the blood of his crimes. Was Rama Yade sacked for this eloquent outburst against the man who had made her the youngest member of his government? Not a bit of it, writes Marcel Berlins.
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/ 14 December 2007
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says he is committed to public service, but that it might not be in the same job. Manuel has become a totem or a symbol of economic and political stability. The second question people ask after inquiring whether Jacob Zuma will win at the ANC’s conference at Polokwane next week is: “What will Trevor Manuel do?”
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/ 14 December 2007
Nine members of the platinum-rich Bakwena Ba Mogopa community have been acquitted on charges of public violence stemming from a protracted leadership battle within the tribe, which has yet to be resolved. In handing down the decision at the Garankuwa Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate Aggrey Siphuthi ruled that no concrete evidence had been provided to justify punishing the accused.
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/ 14 December 2007
ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma’s lobbyists have added North West speaker Thandi Modise to their list for the party’s top six positions in what appears to be a move to counter President Thabo Mbeki’s strategy on gender parity in the ANC’s succession battle. Key Zuma strategist and Fikile Mbalula confirmed that Modise was a candidate on the Zuma camp’s list for party deputy general secretary.
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/ 14 December 2007
China’s capital has registered 973 new HIV/Aids cases so far this year, a jump of more than 50% from 2006, state media reported on Wednesday. “Incidents of the disease are still on the rise in Beijing and it is spreading from the high-risk groups of people to the general population,” Jin Dapeng, head of the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, was quoted as saying.
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/ 14 December 2007
Intelligence agencies and security experts are divided over events in Algeria: one view is that the violence of recent years is the work of the homegrown GSPC (the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat), still fighting the civil war that tore the country apart and killed thousands in the 1990s.