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/ 16 September 2006
Not many people at Nato’s Brussels headquarters are likely to laugh these days at the old joke that the acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation actually stands for Now Almost Totally Obsolete. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Nato’s Secretary General, sees Afghanistan as a test of the alliance’s credibility.
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/ 15 September 2006
Opposition MPs have expressed outrage at the final list of nominations for independent communications authority Icasa’s council, which has been passed by the National Assembly. The list contains the names of two current department of communication officials and past councillor Mamodupi Mohlala.
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/ 15 September 2006
South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday, in his weekly online newsletter ANC Today, that the upcoming Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) national congress would ”further strengthen the long-standing bonds” between the African National Congress (ANC) and Cosatu. ”As before, the ANC will await with great expectation the results of this important congress,” he said.
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/ 15 September 2006
The South African Congress of Trade Unions (Satawu) re-elected Ezrom Mabyana as its president on Friday. June Dube was re-elected first deputy president and Randall Howard the general secretary on the last day of the union’s second national congress in Boksburg.
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/ 15 September 2006
Locusts have invaded farms in Nigeria, destroying crops as farmers prepare for harvest, officials said on Friday. Diyos Auta, state agriculture commissioner for Taraba, in the centre of the country, said the locusts had destroyed 50 000ha of crops in the past week.
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/ 15 September 2006
Police shot in the air on Friday to disperse a pro-Islamist crowd protesting at the seat of Somalia’s shaky interim government against an African Union plan to send peacekeepers. About 100 people chanting ”God is great!” and ”No to foreign troops!” rallied at the protest organised by religious leaders in Baidoa, the base of the government.
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/ 15 September 2006
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said on Friday his Premier League leaders would not underestimate Arsenal when they face their old foes at Old Trafford on Sunday. United have enjoyed their best start to a Premier League season with four wins from four, while a misfiring Arsenal lie 17th after taking just two points from their three games.
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/ 15 September 2006
The government should create jobs and provide education and skills development if it is serious about fighting crime, the South African Prisoners’ Organisation for Human Rights (Sapohr) said on Friday. ”The government has a tendency of panicking and looking for a non-existent quick-fix for crime,” said Sapohr president Golden Miles Bhudu.
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/ 15 September 2006
South Africa, currently ranked the fourth largest ”new world” wine producer, has seen its exports increase steadily between 2001 and 2005, rising from 177,3-million litres to 281,1-million litres last year, says Tai Collard, managing director of Cape-based direct wine marketer, Wine of the Month Club.
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/ 15 September 2006
President Joseph Kabila and Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba will face off in the second round of the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on October 29, the country’s Supreme Court confirmed on Friday. The court published final results from the first round on July 30, confirming preliminary results giving Kabila the lead.