The Vodacom Journalist of The Year awards kicked off in Johannesburg on Monday evening, recognising the weekly Mail & Guardian newspaper and Moneyweb for exceptional investigative journalism.<
President Thabo Mbeki will keep Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang in her post, despite mounting calls for her to resign. Mbeki has defied critics over the years by showing confidence in her and re-appointing her for a second term even when she had already antagonised stakeholders during her first term.
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The young man briefly opened his bloodshot eyes and scanned the bleak, chaotic surroundings. His muscular body shivered uncontrollably beneath the white, government-monogrammed sheet as the paramedics lifted him on to another trolley. He tried to raise his arms; his hands and forearms, thighs, chest, back and feet were wrapped in thick, white bandages.
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Jacob Zuma would have been ”exonerated” had he been charged alongside his financial adviser Schabir Shaik, Zuma’s defence team claimed in its heads of argument filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday. Had they been able to do so, they would have cross-examined Shaik.
The South African Football Association (Safa) has offered a R1,8-million monthly salary to incoming Bafana Bafana coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Monday. Safa appeared before Parliament on Monday morning to describe its plans to reshape South Africa’s soccer teams for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
Three people died and dozens more were injured in a blast in Turkey’s Mediterranean city Antalya on Monday, the fifth bomb to hit the country in less than 24 hours. Locals and witnesses said they heard a loud explosion, which broke windows, shattered glass and sparked a fire at a shopping area in the centre of the city, one of Turkey’s most popular tourist destinations.
Final arguments in Botswana’s longest-running court case, in which San Bushmen are fighting for rights to ancestral land, will be heard next month after judges agreed to an adjournment request on Monday. The Bushmen’s lawyer said he had applied for an extension as he had only received written submissions from state attorneys last Wednesday.
Eskom restored the electricity supply to much of the eastern Free State on Monday after cutting it off earlier in the day for emergency repairs, a spokesperson said. ”The earth wire on one of Eskom’s 88KV high-voltage power lines that was hit by lightning and broken could not be joined and was being removed,” said Chriska van der Merwe.
Former president FW de Klerk on Monday said he respected Adriaan Vlok’s apology to Frank Chikane, and wondered why Vlok’s motives were being questioned. ”The inability of many of his fellow citizens to accept even so sincere and humble an apology is an indication of the profound and unresolved differences over our past,” said De Klerk in a statement.