The FF Plus said on Thursday that it would ask Finance Minister Trevor Manuel to investigate the constitutionality of an intended provincial fuel levy. The party’s minerals and energy spokesperson, Willie Spies, said he would ask Manuel to investigate whether the planned fuel levy for the Western Cape would be justifiable in terms of Section 228(2) of the Constitution.
As government soldiers dozed in the abandoned market stalls and excited United Nations peacekeepers celebrated reaching the town of Tchei in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a handful of civilians squatted in a mud hut. The dozen or so — those too old, young or ill to flee — were being kept under close guard and were all that was left of the population of 10 000 who lived in Tchei before the attack.
The Socceroos may have been eliminated from the World Cup by Italy but an Adelaide brewer says fans can console themselves with the fact that an Aussie ale has won a "beer world cup". Coopers Brewery said it won a drink-off organised by British industry magazine <i>Off Licence News</i> involving, where possible, a representative beer from each of the 32 World Cup nations.
Britain will fall silent on Friday to remember the 52 people who died and hundreds more who were injured when four suicide bombers blew themselves up on London’s public transport system exactly a year ago. A day-long series of prayers and commemorative events has been planned to pay tribute to those who lost their lives.
It would have been the most expensive bottle of soft drink in history. A secretary at Coca-Cola’s global headquarters has been arrested for stealing a phial of a secret new product, hiding it in a brown Armani bag and attempting to sell it for ,5-million to the world’s second biggest cola maker, Pepsi.
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This World Cup, which was expected to provide a festival of youth, has turned into a celebration of experience. While Kaka faded, Lionel Messi was deprived of his rightful chance and Wayne Rooney simply self-destructed, the old men grabbed the stage for a final parade of their talents.
Veteran journalist Jon Qwelane says he is fully behind Jacob Zuma’s defa-mation action against the media and he lashed out at the Mail & Guardian’s cartoonist, Jonathan ”Zapiro” Shapiro, who is among Zuma’s targets. Recently Zuma’s lawyers, led by advocate Jurg Prinsloo, reportedly lodged a series of multimillion-rand suits.
The embattled communications regulator wants the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) to conduct a witch-hunt into recent leaks that have drawn attention to the dire state of the regulator. Minutes of the June council meeting of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) report that its chairperson, Paris Mashile, ”has contacted the NIA to conduct an investigation on the leaks at Icasa”.
The score is three-two in favour of South Africa — and there is no chance of a penalty shoot-out. So says the South African head of world football governing body Fifa, Michael Palmer, in reaction to ”faceless rumours” that Fifa was considering moving the 2010 World Cup.
Reactionary troops rallying in mountain hotel hideouts to subvert the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) … or concerned academics meeting to discuss ways of promoting both transformation and excellence. These polar opposites in interpretations of recent upheavals at UKZN emerge from written communications among university staff.