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The former head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Bulelani Ngcuka, did everything in his power to protect the reputation of former deputy president Jacob Zuma, according to an affidavit filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court. In the document, Ngcuka denies allegations of involvement in any political conspiracy against Zuma.
About 54 700 people were left dead or missing and 2,5-million others homeless by last month’s devastating floods in North Korea, an independent South Korean humanitarian group said on Wednesday. Good Friends, a long-term aid partner for North Korea, said the floods were the worst in the country’s history.
A shock hike in the price of beer announced by the Zimbabwean government last month has virtually emptied most Harare nightspots of revellers. The price hike seems to have taken away the only safe way for most Zimbabweans to bury their sorrows, forcing many to resort to other, not-so-innocent means to find solace.
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World Cup semifinalists Kenya were no match for Bangladesh as the tourists clinched the third and final one-day match by six wickets on Tuesday to win the series 3-0. Medium-pacer Ashrafe Mortaza acted as the chief destroyer of the Kenyan batting line-up, taking 6-26 for a total haul of 13 wickets in the three-match series.
The University of Pretoria’s Mamelodi campus will re-open on Wednesday, university management announced on Tuesday. This is after two weeks of sometimes violent protests by students and the temporary closure of the campus by management.
New technologies for HIV prevention could have a huge impact on the epidemic, possibly averting millions of new infections in the coming years, the International Aids Conference in Toronto heard on Tuesday. Gita Ramjee, of the HIV prevention research unit in South Africa, said there is a range of new and promising prevention technologies in advanced clinical trials.
The South African Observer Mission (SAOM) to the July 30 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) presidential and parliamentary elections says it is happy with progress made in capturing the results, despite difficulties at the start of the process. The 108-member SAOM to the DRC elections was the largest ever to be dispatched by the South African government.
Former LeisureNet boss Peter Gardener on Tuesday denied that the purchase of a R7-million home at Hermanus by an offshore trust he set up was an attempt to launder money. In the witness box in the Cape High Court for the second day in succession, Gardener also denied that he was dishonest with his tax return in concealing a R6-million payment into the trust.
Israeli forces began leaving parts of south Lebanon on Tuesday as a United Nations truce largely held for a second day and the Lebanese army prepared to move south. Thousands of refugees who had fled the month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah headed home to battered villages in the south.