South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) CEO Dali Mpofu this week asked his top 20 managers to sign letters consenting to undergo polygraph tests in an effort to determine the source of the leaked internal audit report the Mail & Guardian was interdicted from publishing last week.
Cellphone masts do not cause harmful short-term health effects, according to a study of people who say they experience symptoms when they are close to them. The study dealt another blow to the notion that low-level electromagnetic fields from cellphones or base stations are dangerous.
His job might just be the most difficult in the land: fixing South Africa’s notorious department of correctional services. But Vernie Petersen, the newly appointed national commissioner, is ready for the challenge, and a new drum is already beating through this controversial and much-criticised department.
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A parked car bomb killed 25 people and wounded 115 when it exploded near an intersection in central Baghdad on Thursday and police said the toll was likely to rise as many bodies were still buried under rubble. Bodies lay strewn around the street after the blast, which smashed three buildings into piles of masonry and concrete.
Former South African president FW de Klerk on Thursday denied that he had ever condoned apartheid-era murders or other gross violations of human rights. ”I have not only a clear conscience, I am not guilty of any crime whatsoever,” he said. He was responding to newspaper reports that former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok, who faces prosecution, intends to spill the beans on him.
After being pulled off shelves early on Friday last week following a temporary court interdict, the Mail & Guardian is still unable to report on an explosive final draft of an internal audit report of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). On Thursday, Judge Justice Poswa granted the applicant, a senior SABC executive, a further postponement of the matter.
Lawyers for the alleged British mastermind of a foiled coup in Equatorial Guinea launched an appeal on Thursday against his extradition from Zimbabwe, arguing the move would amount to a death sentence. ”He is so ill he should not be extradited. He will not be able to withstand trial,” Mann’s chief attorney, Jonathan Samkange, told the hearing.
Zimbabwean police concocted accusations of terrorism against an opposition MP and 12 followers based on testimony from non-existent witnesses at a fictional South African farm, a judge has said. Prosecutors had failed to produce the witnesses when ordered to do so and were unable to pinpoint the farm on a map, Justice Lawrence Kamocha said.