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/ 2 November 2007
Religion and the debate between those who want a federal state and those who prefer centralised power have become key elements in Kenya’s election politics, which are heating up before the December 27 poll. The Kenyan Catholic Church is openly backing incumbent President Mwai Kibaki, who is seeking re- election and who wants to maintain the current system in which power is concentrated in the executive.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has been lashed over its second ”failed” attempt to explain why Cape Judge President John Hlophe will not be impeached. The JSC issued a second statement after pressure from the legal fraternity to provide clarity on the reasons for finding there was no ”prima facie evidence of gross misconduct” against Hlophe.
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/ 2 November 2007
More than R7-billion later the Coega Development Corporation appears to be close to securing its first anchor tenant. The Mail & Guardian has learned that PetroSA chief executive Sipho Mkhize and department of minerals and energy director general Sandile Nogxina were set to visit the CDC late this week to discuss housing PetroSA’s mooted R39-billion crude-oil refinery.
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/ 2 November 2007
A veil of silence has been drawn over allegations that National Intelligence Agency boss Manala Manzini abused his wife. The Mail & Guardian reported last week that the ANC Women’s League was planning to discuss the issue with Manzini’s wife, Mavivi Mayakayaka-Manzini, deputy chairperson of the league, at a national working committee meeting.
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/ 2 November 2007
Western Cape police commissioner Mzwandile Petros has accused Cape Town mayor Helen Zille of ”not telling the truth” when she claimed that the Cape Town city council employed private investigators because the police had failed to probe controversial councillor Badih Chaaban. Said Petros in an interview: ”I called a press conference and played recorded evidence to show that the council employed the private investigating firm.”
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/ 1 November 2007
I recently had the pleasure of spending a mid-week getaway at one of the Western Cape’s finest hotel/spa complexes. The Arabela Hotel and Spa, about an hour from Cape Town near Gansbaai, boasts fynbos-fringed fairways leading to a golf-course clubhouse with views of the Bot River lagoon and the Kogelberg mountains, writes Zodidi Mhlana.
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/ 1 November 2007
"At last, we are now on the freeway!" said my driver, exhaling proudly, adjusting his sunglasses and revving our white Hyundai hatchback to a recklessly exhilarating 80kph. I allowed myself a little smirk at the liberal use of the term "freeway" — a bold Americanism that appeared to be over-selling the rather rudimentary stretch of road ahead of us.
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/ 1 November 2007
In mid-winter I boarded a 55ft (5m) sailing yacht out of Cape Town’s Table Bay to rediscover islands and what they can teach us about coping with climate change. With the help of the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting and prompted by a dog-eared copy of <i>The Song of the Dodo</i> by the science writer David Quammen, we uploaded video segments of our adventure, writes Jeff Barbee.
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/ 1 November 2007
Two commuters and a taxi driver were injured when they were caught in the crossfire of a taxi-violence shoot-out in Edenvale on Thursday. Ekurhuleni metro police spokesperson Inspector Jimmy Maboko said between 100 and 150 members of the Germiston Taxi Association and the Tembisa Taxi Association had gathered and began shooting at each other.