President Thabo Mbeki has unleashed a storm of controversy with his sacking of deputy minister of health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
As if it weren’t bad enough that fans of the South African version of Survivor already had to give up one evening a week for their reality fix, they now have even more to look forward to on the web. Exclusive ”webisodes” created for the internet are being produced for the second season of Survivor.
An Independent Democrats (ID) councillor in the City of Cape Town has sworn loyalty to the party after an anonymously sent fax suggested she was planning to defect in the coming floor-crossing window. ID caucus leader Simon Grindrod released copies of the fax at a media briefing on Thursday, saying he believed it was a tactic to influence other councillors.
Jacques Kallis suffered his second disappointment in less than a week on Thursday when he was left out of South Africa’s squad to tour Zimbabwe. All-rounder Kallis was on Saturday omitted from the squad for the Twenty20 World Championship, which will be staged in South Africa in September.
Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula has provided Parliament with inaccurate crime statistics when replying to questions, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Thursday. The DA’s Dianne Kohler-Barnard said Nqakula gave two contradicting answers to the same question.
Springbok centre Jean De Villiers will not be travelling with the team to Ireland and Scotland for pre-Rugby World Cup games due to an injury to his side. The injury sustained during the Namibia game in Cape Town means he will stay at home to recover under the supervision of the Springbok medical team.
Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe was given a hero’s welcome on Thursday at the opening of a Southern African summit set to be dominated by international concerns over his country’s meltdown. The embattled octogenarian leader received thunderous applause as he walked into the summit of the Southern African Development Community.
Elvis Presley never left the building or checked out of Heartbreak Hotel. He’s simply lying low and ordering room service, diehard fans insist 30 years after his alleged death. Sightings of Elvis began being reported almost immediately after he died on August 16 1977, at the age of 42.
A 15-year-old schoolboy and a security guard were crushed to death as hordes of shoppers tried to buy sugar in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, reports said on Thursday. Several people were also injured on Wednesday at the Entumbane Shopping Complex, the Zimbabwe state-controlled Chronicle newspaper reported.
The 2008 BMW 5 Series was the worst performer in new side-impact crash tests of luxury sedans by the United States insurance industry. The Acura RL, Kia Amanti and Volvo S80 all earned the highest safety rating from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, according to results released on Thursday.