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/ 25 October 2007
A man who may have been the victim of a money scam was arrested by police outside the United States embassy in Pretoria on Thursday. The man, who is in his early 40s and who was initially reported to have been planning an attack on the embassy, was praying and chanting across the street from the embassy when police were alerted.
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/ 25 October 2007
Entertainer Taliep Petersen and his wife, Najwa, were involved in dodgy diamond and currency deals, the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court heard on Thursday. One of these deals was in progress on the night he died, according to an affidavit handed in as evidence in Najwa’s second bail application.
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/ 25 October 2007
Special methods are needed to combat the epidemic of drug trafficking and abuse, it was contended by the state on Thursday in the drug-trafficking case involving Nazier Kapdi and four alleged accomplices. The ”special methods” referred to a police trap set up to bring to book Kapdi and those involved with him in his network.
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/ 25 October 2007
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South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale said on Thursday he had not ruled out joining the race to head the African National Congress (ANC), a position that traditionally leads to the country’s presidency. ”I haven’t made a final decision. I am waiting for the nominations process,” he told the Cape Town Press Club.
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/ 25 October 2007
In a bizarre case of overloading, two policemen in northern KwaZulu-Natal impounded a blue Fiat Uno on Thursday that was being used to transport two cows and two goats. Police spokesperson Captain Jabulani Mdletshe said two off-duty policemen were informed by residents of the Phelindaba area near Emanguzi that they had seen a man loading a cow into the small vehicle.
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/ 25 October 2007
Everyone knew Lucky Dube was a big star, as synonymous with reggae in Africa as Bob Marley and Peter Tosh were on the world stage.
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/ 25 October 2007
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on Thursday dismissed an application by the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) to get the full record of the blacklisting inquiry at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). The FXI had asked Icasa to subpoena the record to help it defend its complaint that the SABC had violated licensing conditions.
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/ 25 October 2007
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The Springboks were accused on Thursday of blowing the chance of spreading rugby among South Africa’s black population by scrapping plans to include the biggest township on a World Cup victory parade. SA Rugby, already under fire over the lack of black players in the Springbok team, said it had had to strike Soweto off its list of venues because of time constraints.
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/ 25 October 2007
South African theatre icon Patrick Mynhardt, famous for portraying the Herman Charles Bosman character Oom Schalk Lourens on stage, has died at the age of 75, it was announced on Thursday. Mynhardt passed away of natural causes in London where he was performing his biographical one-man show Boy from Bethulie.
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/ 25 October 2007
Rand Water intends spending R4-billion on upgrading and refurbishing its distribution infrastructure in the next five years, the company announced in releasing its results on Thursday. Of this, 57% would be allocated to augmentation projects and the rest to the renovation and upgrading of existing infrastructure, said Rand Water acting chief executive Zvinaiye Manyere.