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/ 27 September 2007
President Thabo Mbeki has responded for the first time on his decision to suspend the National Director of Public Prosecutions, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Thursday. Mbeki was speaking to the broadcaster on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
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/ 27 September 2007
Mozambique will not attend the forthcoming European Union-African Union summit if Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is excluded, Radio Mozambique reported on Wednesday. Mugabe is barred from travelling to most European countries in terms of sanctions imposed on the Southern African country.
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/ 27 September 2007
When the Scorpions were up for grabs at Judge Sisi Khampepe’s commission in October 2005, National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Vusi Pikoli said “I do” — and Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla retorted “I don’t”. This week’s formal divorce of the two was long in the making.
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/ 26 September 2007
Most media captains are tightly focused on their business, meaning that they understandably don’t pay much attention to seemingly obscure stuff outside their silo — for example, the rampaging online social networking among online youth. But some remember that a once-unknown IT business called Google came from nowhere to feast on their erstwhile monopoly of audience time and advertising tribute.
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/ 26 September 2007
Tear gas billowed down the street every day as rioters battled police. Enraged protesters believed that even the Communist Party had turned its back on them. One evening, amid the debris of street barricades, I spotted two party officials — famed for their underground resistance — pleading with a group of rioters to renounce violent protest. This was in Rome exactly 30 years ago.
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/ 26 September 2007
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Samoa ended their disappointing World Cup campaign with a scrappy 25-21 win over the United States in their final Pool A match on Tuesday. Samoa led 22-3 at the break after a three-try blitz and seemed on course for a comfortable win.
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/ 26 September 2007
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Georgia celebrated their first World Cup win on Wednesday with a 30-0 victory over Namibia at a soggy Stade Felix Bollaert. The Europeans scored three tries against an African side who were left searching for their first win after a poor tournament.
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/ 26 September 2007
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South Africa winger Bryan Habana has set himself a twin target at the Rugby World Cup — helping his team win the title and collect the top try-scorer plaudits. Habana has four tries to his name so far with probably more to come against the United States in Montpellier on Sunday before the quarterfinal.
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/ 26 September 2007
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown renewed on Wednesday a pledge to snub Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at a European Union-Africa summit in December, but vowed to help his suffering people by reiterated London’s support for the ”reconstruction” of the economically ravaged former British colony.