The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi on Thursday labelled calls for his resignation as an ”elaborate plan” to discredit him and the NPA. The Congress of South African Trade Unions in KwaZulu-Natal claims Nkosi lied when he said the NPA would be ready to proceed with its case against Jacob Zuma.
African National Congress national executive committee member Tony Yengeni, who was swept to the gates of Pollsmoor prison on a wave of solidarity from party officials, suggested on Thursday that Parliament erred in its handling of his fraud case. He was addressing a crowd of supporters outside the prison’s gates.
Police used pepper spray to evict a group of Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protesters from a Department of Correctional Services building in central Cape Town on Thursday. The protest was part of the TAC’s ”day of action” to pressure President Thabo Mbeki to sack Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
Clothing retail group Truworths lifted headline earnings per share by 29% from 144,8 cents to 186,4 cents for the 52 weeks ended June 25 2006. The group declared a final dividend of 45 cents per share, bringing the total dividend for the year to 89 cents per share.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) held a closed meeting of heads of State and foreign ministers over the economic troubles in member state Zimbabwe, South African Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Thursday. He was addressing a media briefing at Parliament — beamed to Pretoria — and said simply: "The fact that they met is important."
Well, the war is finally over: and the cellphone has emerged as the winner on two key fronts. For most buyers it will be the device of choice for playing music and taking photographs. I have been trying out some of the latest cellphones and there has been a big increase in the quality and quantity of the tracks they play.
Europe’s largest street party got under way on Sunday as festivities began in the narrow streets of London’s Notting Hill with an estimated 300Â 000 visitors coming to enjoy the first day of the annual carnival. Children and adults in elaborate costumes, many decked out with multi-coloured feathers and large wings, paraded along the carnival’s three-and-a-half mile route in west London to the sound of whistles, steel drums, and Caribbean music.
Islamists controlling much of southern Somalia warned Ethiopia on Thursday of ”full-scale war” unless it withdraws troops allegedly sent to defend the country’s weak transitional government. The warning was delivered as forces loyal to the Islamist movement advanced toward a town north of the capital, lost earlier this week to warlords reportedly backed by Ethiopian soldiers.
Two global rights groups on Wednesday expressed grave concern over the treatment of several Ethiopian prisoners detained for months since violent protests over disputed elections last year. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists and London-based Amnesty International decried the conditions in which three detainees are being held.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has suggested that his detractors have lost their nerve, and asked God to calm them, in the latest verbal jab at Damascus over the the conflict in Lebanon. ”I hold my nerve and I am unflappable in the face of provocation. May God calm those who have lost their nerve,” Mubarak said in an interview to be published by the top-selling al-Ahram weekly.