The head of Zimbabwe’s main state grain marketing board has been arrested on graft charges, police said on Saturday, days after another top executive was jailed in a new drive against growing corruption. President Robert Mugabe ordered a crackdown on graft last month to try to resolve Zimbabwe’s economic crisis.
A fierce power struggle is raging in the South African Democratic Teachers Union in the run-up to next week’s union congress, which will elect new leaders. As the Congress of South African Trade Unions’s (Cosatu) second-largest affiliate, with more than 230 000 members, the Sadtu gathering will have a large impact on Cosatu’s ninth national congress next month.
Jacob Zuma should remove himself from the succession race and the president should be elected directly by the people, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said this week in his Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture, delivered in Cape Town. We publish edited excerpts from the speech, as well as the complete text.
The article ”MPs seek new powers” makes several criticisms of Parliament. Despite their potential constructive value, these points are thoroughly debased by a lack of both content and context, and a reliance on anonymous ”members of the African National Congress”, writes Luzuko Jacobs.
Almost 10 years ago, Eben Donges Hospital in Worcester acknowledged a looming nursing crisis and established a groundbreaking learnership programme that has uplifted the community and averted massive nursing vacancies. ”We realised that our staff must be our most important asset and that we would need to invest in their training and development if we wanted to retain our current staff and attract new members,” said former nurse Liesl Strauss.
Kimberley has one of the best doctor-patient ratios in the country but, a few kilometres away, Warrenton Hospital battles to attract a single doctor. To listen to Sister Gail Davids is to understand why so many of our nurses hotfoot it out of the public health system. At Warrenton, a normal weekend sounds as if it were a television script.
Firestone specialist Tiger Woods took charge in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational second round on Friday, despite running up a remarkable bogey-five on his final hole. Woods, champion here four times in his last seven starts, struck the clubhouse roof with his approach to the par-four ninth and was fortunate to get a free drop before completing a six-under-par 64.
Hundreds of Sevilla supporters danced, sounded car-horns and set off firecrackers into the early hours of Saturday morning to celebrate their team’s European Super Cup victory over the continent’s champion FC Barcelona, news reports said.
A Parow couple who allegedly locked their pit bull terrier bitch in a wooden kennel, then set the kennel alight, appeared in the Bellville Regional Court on Friday charged with cruelty to animals. They face two charges — allegedly setting the dog, named Tammy, alight, and the deliberate or negligent failure to take the severely burnt dog to a veterinary surgeon afterwards.
Revelations that umpire Darrell Hair asked cricket’s governing body the International Cricket Council (ICC) for a 000 pay-off to defuse the ball-tampering row with Pakistan dominated Britain’s newspapers on Saturday. Copies of the e-mails in which Hair made the request to the ICC’s umpires and referees manager, Doug Cowie, were reprinted while ex-pros and pundits gave their views.