A ”typing error” has put paid to an application by three Ekurhuleni metro police for a restraining order against their chief, Robert McBride. It emerged in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday that McBride was informed in a notice of motion that the urgent application would be heard on Monday ”July 9”, instead of July 10.
The Southern African Development Community should step in to save the deteriorating economy of Zimbabwe, South Africa’s minister of foreign affairs said on Tuesday. ”We are concerned about the situation in Zimbabwe and its economic situation, which has been deteriorating,” Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said in Pretoria.
Three Ekurhuleni metro police brought an application in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday for a restraining order against their chief, Robert McBride. The application was being brought by Ekurhuleni metro police chief Superintendent Stanley Segathevan, Chief Superintendent Patrick Johnston and Superintendent Itumeleng Koko.
The R5,3-million insurance policy on Taliep Petersen’s life, to which first his widow Najwa and later his minor daughter were beneficiaries, has not yet been paid. This was revealed in the Wynberg Regional Court in Cape Town on Tuesday. The court heard a bail application by Najwa and one of her three co-accused in Taliep’s murder.
The White House hit back on Tuesday in a bid to stem a growing Republican revolt over Iraq strategy, as Democrats drove home a searing attack on President George Bush over the war. The president’s spokesperson, Tony Snow, pushed back against reports Iraq would meet no benchmarks on political and military progress in an interim assessment due later this week.
Metal and engineering industry unions have rejected an offer employers put on the table on Tuesday afternoon, said Solidarity. Solidarity spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans said that after unions rejected the increased offer, employers held their own caucus meeting. Unions and employers were expected to meet back at the negotiation table on Tuesday evening.
Pakistani forces killed a rebel Islamist leader and more than 50 of his militants on Tuesday after 15 hours of fighting in an Islamabad mosque compound at the climax of a week-long siege. Militants mounted a last stand in the basement of a religious school where cleric Abdul Rashid Ghazi was killed, the Interior Ministry said.
Ford chief executive Alan Mulally said on Monday he expects the company to sell plug-in hybrids in five to 10 years. Mulally said the roll-out of Ford plug-in hybrids is dependent on advancements to lithium ion batteries that will be charged by the car’s owners using regular household electrical outlets.
The Smart car on Tuesday visited the city built on massive motoring muscle as part of a 50-city road show designed to demonstrate why backers say the tiny two-seater is ”the right car at the right time” for the United States. The summer road show precedes the US launch of the Smart fortwo early next year.
Italy will, if requested, be ready to help South Africa with safety and security issues during the 2010 World Cup, its Deputy Prime Minister, Massimo D’Alema, said on Tuesday. D’Alema was hosted by Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Pretoria where bilateral political and economic discussions between the two took place.