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/ 28 February 2007
The Bush administration gave up one of the central tenets of its Middle East strategy on Tuesday, reversing its much criticised effort to isolate Iran and Syria by inviting both states to negotiations on stabilising Iraq. The initiative will see the United States and Britain join Iraq and its neighbours in talks to try to rein in the country’s sectarian violence.
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/ 28 February 2007
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille is indulging in political grandstanding over the Green Point Stadium, mayoral committee member Simon Grindrod has suggested. He has also criticised what he says is the city’s ”inability to drive such a high-profile initiative”. In a statement issued on Wednesday, his office said he was extremely concerned at the latest halting of the project.
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/ 28 February 2007
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has been given the go-ahead to seize assets worth millions of rands from a businessmen facing cigarette smuggling. NPA spokesperson Lucinda Moonieya said the case against Hendrik Delport was ”one of the biggest asset-forfeiture orders ever obtained in South Africa”.
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/ 28 February 2007
Standard Chartered Bank, the world’s biggest emerging-market bank with more than 60 000 employees in 56 countries, including South Africa, says gold’s recent rally is set to continue. Framed in the context of current dollar weakness, the gold rally looks set to continue heading higher.
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/ 28 February 2007
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has advised taxpayers who earn a motor-vehicle allowance to record their odometer reading (mileage) on February 28, the end of the tax year for individual taxpayers. The reading will help individual taxpayers to fill in their logbooks accurately.
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/ 28 February 2007
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has swelled taxpayers’ wallets and purses by R8,4-billion, but in reality most mid- and upper-income earners won’t really notice unless they proactively take advantage of the tax breaks. Paying off or reducing debt is a good way to invest the tax saving.
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/ 28 February 2007
Where’s ‘Mandela Doctrine’? Possibly the cornerstone of the 1994 settlement was the mutual recognition between Afrikaners and Africans, an event that took South Africa closer to the key to its future — realising harmony between its different communities. When trying to make sense of Afrikaners today, it is the sorry state of this mutual recognition […]
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/ 28 February 2007
The Ugandan government and northern rebels on Wednesday traded barbs ahead of a midnight truce expiry, raising fears of fresh clashes that could wipe out a stalled peace process to end two decades of war. The rebel Lord’s Resistance Army vowed not to renew the truce and to counter any army raids.
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/ 28 February 2007
South Africa looks set to reintroduce culling as one of a range of options for managing the country’s fast-growing elephant herds. Launching a set of draft regulations on Wednesday, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk stressed this would not ”immediately lead to the wholesale slaughter of elephants anywhere”.
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/ 28 February 2007
The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) on Wednesday condemned the violent protests by angry North West residents over poor service delivery. Although Sanco has been behind some of the protests, the organisation’s provincial secretary, Gabriel Nkgweng, said the organisation did not condone the violent nature that had characterised certain of the protests.