The Gauteng government’s attempt to negotiate with violent taxi organisations sent out the wrong message about crime, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. The DA’s Gauteng transport spokesperson, James Swart, said bus drivers in Alexandra in Johannesburg had been attacked recently.
The hooded killers of the Chadian president’s son were filmed on video surveillance cameras in the underground car park in France where his body was found, a judicial source said on Tuesday. Brahim Déby was discovered dead in his car early on Monday near his home outside Paris.
Three United Nations agencies on Tuesday appealed for -million in donations to combat a malnutrition crisis at two major Kenyan refugee camps. ”The malnutrition crisis that we are witnessing … is the cumulative effect of years of recurrent budgetary shortfalls,” Eddie Gedalof from the Kenya office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said.
The South African Rugby Union is ”an absolute disgrace” and the Springboks should be kicked out of the Tri-Nations, says David Moffett, one of the chief architects of Sanzar. Moffett said that Australia and New Zealand had to cut South Africa from the next television deal, and instead play more trans-Tasman matches.
It is a sport with a history stretching back more than two millennia; its most ardent fans have included emperors and feudal lords; and to be cradled in the arms of one of its practitioners as a child supposedly guarantees a life of robust health. Now Japan’s national sport is fearing for its future after if failed to attract a single new recruit for the first time in its history.
South Africa’s high murder rate rose further in the past year while rape figures dropped, according to police statistics on Tuesday. With around 50 murders, 148 rapes and nearly 700 serious assaults committed each day, violent crime is a particular concern.
South African new vehicle sales declined by 12,1% year-on-year in June, data showed on Tuesday, as the effects of higher interest rates pinched household budgets. The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers said 50Â 056 new units were sold in June compared with 56Â 927 in the same month last year.
Kenya is trying to clamp down on a sect, the Mungiki, accused of occultist rituals and beheadings, but which is also seen as a threat to stability. Analysts say the Mungiki is more of an organised criminal gang with political ties than a sect and they warn that such groups could multiply in the crime-prone country.
A decline in the number of dairy farmers has added to unemployment, the Milk Producers’ Organisation (MPO) said on Tuesday. The MPO said the number of milk producers has fallen from 7 200 in 1998 to the current 3 800. The managing director of the MPO, Etienne Terre’blanche, said an estimated 66 000 people worked on dairy farms.
Somali gunmen shot dead a senior government official in a troubled Mogadishu district and a teenager died when munitions left behind by African Union peacekeepers exploded, officials said on Tuesday. The seaside capital has witnessed an upsurge in attacks by insurgents targeting interim government officials.