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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.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan told Lebanese ministers on Monday he wanted the two Israeli soldiers whose capture by Hezbollah sparked a 34-day war with Israel to be handed to the Red Cross, a government source said.
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.
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.
Internet giant Google and online auctioneer eBay said on Monday they had struck an alliance to boost their text-based and ”click-to-call” advertising revenues. Under the deal, Google advertisers will be promoted on eBay’s auction websites around the world as the two companies seek to increase online commerce through the use of emerging internet telephony services.
The Development Bank of Southern Africa development fund and a brand new initiative called Siyenza Manje, which provides hands-on technical expertise to municipalities in a range of disciplines, are designed to overturn the reality of reduced capacity among municipalities, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel said on Monday.
Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Lindiwe Hendricks hopes to have a ”lean and mean” department when she leaves office. ”I hope to leave behind a lean and mean and much smaller department that is clearly focused on its role as sector leader for forestry and water,” she told journalists on Monday after her first 90 days in office.