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/ 26 October 2007
There will be power failures in Tshwane for two to three hours per area until Eskom has sorted out its problems, the municipality said on Friday. Spokesperson Console Tleane appealed to motorists to drive carefully because of bad weather and the fact that some traffic lights would be off.
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/ 26 October 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) called on Thursday for the head of opposition leader Helen Zille over claims that taxpayers were made to foot the bill for an investigation into a political opponent. In its latest attempt to unseat Zille as Cape Town mayor, the ANC tabled a statement in Parliament urging her to resign.
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/ 26 October 2007
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has launched an intelligence academy named after him, saying it would produce officers able to counter growing threats from Western powers. Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980, is fighting isolation from the West, which accuses him of human rights abuses.
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/ 26 October 2007
With Limpopo still to be accounted for, Eastern Cape provincial government departments are leading the field when it comes to poor accounting, according to figures released by the Auditor General on Friday. Eleven of the province’s 12 departments received qualified audit reports for the 2006/7 financial year, and three of the 11 got an ”adverse” rating.
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/ 26 October 2007
Apple’s upgraded Leopard operating system will be set loose on Friday as trend-setting iPods and iPhones cause the ranks of Macintosh computer lovers to swell. Eagerly-awaited by Apple’s notoriously cultish followers, Leopard’s release was delayed so the company’s engineers could devote their time to getting iPhones to market in the United States in June.
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/ 26 October 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/321750/Icon_ANCconference.gif" align=left border=0></a>If Jacob Zuma wins his bid for the ANC presidency in December, here is what he is likely to do, say close aides, associates and analysts. First, he will draw up a protocol governing how he and President Thabo Mbeki will work: one running the party, the other the Presidency. While the protocol could iron out possible areas of conflict, the big hurdle to overcome will be the question of who runs the country?
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/ 26 October 2007
In the past, ousted tyrants would expect to spend the rest of their waning years in comfortable exile, oblivious to the insidious reach of international law, tribunals and justice. This is slowly changing, however, as rampant corruption, plunder of mineral wealth and genocide with impunity has finally garnered the attention and ire of the world.
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/ 26 October 2007
SABC board chairman Eddie Funde has called for an increase in government funding and a drastic reduction in commercial funding of the public broadcaster. “It’s very unusual for the public broadcaster to be 80 percent commercially funded,” Funde told reporters on Thursday morning.
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/ 26 October 2007
The only green reference in the budget was Finance Minister Trevor Manuel bemoaning the fact that it did not contain a pro-environment stance. He indicated that he was looking for his colleagues in the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism to play the lead role and promised that the next Budget would include a green component.
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/ 26 October 2007
The trouble with helping street children is that the problem sometimes looks like a bottomless pit that eats resources, but never seems to deliver any results. Yet, as the problem escalates on the streets of Johannesburg, the option of simply not helping does not exist.