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/ 26 January 2007
Senior legal advisers this week said the Green Point ratepayers’ association bid to stop construction of the controversial R3,7-billion 68 000-seater Green Point stadium is based on strong arguments and could succeed, in part because the city has failed to submit several independent reports to the public for evaluation.
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/ 26 January 2007
Former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni was thrust into the spotlight again this week after reports that he stabbed a bull with his family’s spear before it was ceremonially slaughtered. Three Mail & Guardian journalists give their views on the matter.
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/ 25 January 2007
Popular Afrikaans musician Anton Goosen was robbed of R584Â 000-worth of personal belongings by four armed men at his house in Hennopsrivier Valley near Hartbeespoort Dam, Gauteng police said on Thursday. The men made off with Goosen’s pistol, a DVD player, a TV set, a laptop computer, CDs and an undisclosed amount of money, spokesperson Captain Julia Klaasen said.
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/ 25 January 2007
The FW de Klerk Foundation has threatened legal action against the Western Cape police’s English-only language policy. It said on Thursday if it hasn’t received a formal response from provincial Commissioner Mzwandile Petros by Monday, it will seek a court order forcing him to bring his policy in line with national police requirements.
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/ 25 January 2007
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has written to the African National Congress to complain about the ”leaking and twisting” of discussions at its lekgotla (meeting) over the weekend. Cosatu disapproved of the use of the media, by some, to fight internal battles, spokesperson Patrick Craven said on Thursday.
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/ 25 January 2007
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will meet diamond giant De Beers in Kimberley on Friday to discuss planned retrenchments, the NUM said. ”The discussions are a continuation of earlier talks on [the] De Beers plan to retrench workers in the province,” said Rivonia Morwakgosi, the NUM’s Kimberley regional chairperson.
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/ 25 January 2007
South Africa should have condemned Burma’s military regime and supported a call for sanctions against it, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Thursday. It joined others who have criticised the country using its inaugural vote at the United Nations Security Council earlier in January to vote against a resolution demanding an end to human rights abuses in Burma.
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/ 25 January 2007
The building of a modern hospital in De Aar has been put on hold due to the preparation costs of the 2010 Soccer World Cup, the Northern Cape health department said on Thursday. Spokesperson Shelley Fielding confirmed there is a 12-month delay in the building of a R200-million hospital in De Aar due to a cutback in money available from the National Treasury.