The Department of Environmental Affairs said it will appoint independent auditors to examine the circumstances around the sale by public auction of one of its marine patrol vessels for about R300Â 000. ”The audit will be completed this week,” department spokesperson Blessing Manale told the South African Press Association on Monday.
Western Cape speaker Shaun Byneveldt on Monday announced the names of members of a multiparty committee that will decide whether provincial Premier Ebrahim Rasool misled the legislature. The six-person committee will be chaired by his deputy, Yousuf Gabru. Byneveldt’s office said in a statement that the committee would begin work after the present two-week recess.
About two hundred members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) at a Murray and Roberts plant handed over a memorandum of grievances to company management in Marikana outside Rustenburg on Monday. Workers want the company to implement a wage agreement reached last year.
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Detectives leading the Bob Woolmer murder inquiry said on Monday they are studying the possibility that poison was used to incapacitate the burly Pakistan cricket coach before he was strangled. Jamaican police Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields said detectives were exploring whether the powerfully built Woolmer was drugged before being murdered.
In a defeat for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a United States government agency has the power under the clean-air law to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions that spur global warming. The ruling came in one of the most important environmental cases to reach the Supreme Court in decades. It marked the first high court decision in a case involving global warming.
Drunken South African fans hurled racist abuse at sevens rugby coach Paul Treu after his side lost against Samoa in the Hong Kong Sevens, the Daily News reported on Monday. Its website said the fans were apparently angry because only one white player was in the starting line-up for the semifinal match.
A new version of Adobe Systems’ Creative Suite software will go on sale this month, a launch that executives have billed as the most significant in the company’s 25-year history. The software suite includes well-known programs such as Photoshop for photo editing and Dreamweaver for web design.
Corruption distorts human values and freedom and negatively affects the delivery of services to those most in need, President Thabo Mbeki said on Monday. The president was speaking in Sandton, Johannesburg, at the Fifth Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Protecting Integrity. The conference brought together delegates from over 100 countries.
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Jacob Zuma and French arms manufacturer Thint are to appeal against the Durban High Court’s decision to allow prosecutors to ask authorities in Mauritius to release documents about meetings believed to relate to arms-deal corruption. Speaking on Monday afternoon, Zuma’s attorney said Zuma will lodge an application for leave to appeal against the decision.
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Bob Woolmer’s wife, in Cape Town, has expressed anger at a wave of media speculation sparked by the Pakistan coach’s death, the Cape Argus reported on Monday. ”I’m getting a bit angry about it all. I’m not watching the news anymore … I’m taking it all with a pinch of salt,” Gill Woolmer told the newspaper earlier in the day.