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/ 29 January 2007
Sending young men to the army could help end violent crime, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said over the weekend. ”The worrying trend whereby our youths are involved in the current spate of armed robberies and other related violent crimes that are ravaging our country could be reversed once they join the army,” he said.
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/ 29 January 2007
A former Free State Miss South Africa finalist, Taryn Thompson, and her husband appeared in the Welkom Magistrate’s Court on Monday on drug-related charges. Thompson was released on bail of R1 000 while her husband was remanded and will formally apply for bail on February 5, said police spokesperson Captain Magda Muller.
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/ 29 January 2007
The names of more South Africans could be added to international lists of suspected terrorists, an unnamed United States senior official said on Monday. The US has listed Junaid Dockrat, a Johannesburg dentist, and his cousin, Pretoria cleric Farhad Dockrat, as suspected terrorists with links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
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/ 29 January 2007
The Finance Ministry has invited all South Africans to send their tips to the "Tips for Trevor" campaign about what they would like to see included in next month’s national budget. According to the ministry’s spokesperson, Lindani Mbunyuza, the campaign is run throughout the year and the tips received assist the minister in understanding public sentiment.
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/ 29 January 2007
A Metrobus strike looks set to continue on Tuesday amid threats by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union to expand the industrial action into a secondary strike. However, the Johannesburg public bus company said that the first day of the strike on Monday did not have a huge impact on commuters.
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/ 29 January 2007
Contrary to media reports, the Africa Peer Review Mechanism was tabled and will be discussed at the next African Union summit, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad told reporters on Monday. ”It was tabled last night [Sunday]. As it is with all reports that are tabled, the country that is reviewed gives its own view in relation to the report.
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/ 29 January 2007
A handful of army doctors struggled to cope with emergencies at Zimbabwe’s largest public hospital on Monday as regular doctors pressed on with a five-week strike that has all but paralysed public medical care. Officials said there are about seven army medical personnel at Harare’s Parirenyatwa Hospital doing a job normally carried out by more than 120 doctors.
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/ 29 January 2007
Recaptured Boeremag escapees Herman van Rooyen and Rudi Gouws will remain in shackles for now, it emerged in their Pretoria High Court treason trial on Monday. Their legal representative, advocate Piet Pistorius, initially indicated that they had instructed him to oppose a prosecution move to have them remain shackled while in court.
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/ 29 January 2007
Sudan lost the leadership of the African Union for a second time after the pan-African group on Monday awarded the rotating chair to Ghana because of widespread outrage over continuing bloodshed in Darfur. Alpha Oumar Konare, the AU’s top diplomat, told reporters Ghanaian President John Kufuor would become chairperson. ”By consensus it is President Kufuor.”
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/ 29 January 2007
The National Youth Commission’s chief mandate is not to implement youth programmes, it said on Monday. ”The implementing authority does not rest with us … Ours is to facilitate an enabling environment for youth development to take place,” commission chairperson Nomi Nkondlo told a media briefing in Johannesburg.