A temporary ban on the movement of ostriches and other poultry in Mossel Bay and Riversdale has been lifted, the Western Cape department of agriculture said on Friday. However, this did not apply in areas between the N2 in the south and the Langeberg mountains in the north, and the R232 and R238, said provincial minister of agriculture Cobus Dowry.
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) President Willie Madisha on Friday vowed that there will be regular protest action at the Israeli embassy in Pretoria. ”We want to tell the [Israeli] ambassador that we’ll march every day if needed until he goes home,” Madisha said.
The Young Communist League (YCL) has accused the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of ”hiding crooks who have political interests”. Addressing a crowd of about 1Â 500 people in Durban on Friday, the KwaZulu-Natal deputy general secretary of the YCL, Buthi Manamela, said: ”There are crooks hiding in the NPA under the guise of prosecutors.”
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South African trade unionists and communists rallied on Friday to demand authorities drop corruption charges against former Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Zuma is set to stand trial on Monday in a case that could wreck or resurrect his presidential hopes.
An unknown gunman shot and killed Somalia’s constitutional and federal affairs minister in the provincial town of Baidoa on Friday, just a day after the Somali government was plunged into crisis when 18 ministers quit over its policies. Abdalla Derrow Issak was shot three times as he left a mosque after Friday prayers.
The brutal murder of a top Nigerian politician has raised the spectre of a bloody election campaign in the run-up to presidential and gubernatorial polls in 2007, politicians and observers said on Friday. Funsho Williams, a leading Lagos politician and gubernatorial hopeful, was found murdered at his Lagos home on Thursday.
The government is confident the elections this weekend in the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will put it back on the high road towards national reconciliation and development, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday in his weekly newsletter on the ANC Today website.
Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene pulverised South Africa’s bowling with double centuries during a 471-run unbroken stand in the first Test on Friday. The overnight pair batted through the entire second day’s play as Sri Lanka amassed 485-2 in their first innings by stumps, a lead of 316 over South Africa’s meagre first innings total of 169.
Artist Gabrielle Ozynski is passionate about Yeoville’s potential, its ambience and its future, writes Pat Schwartz.
In response to a recent article by Darryl Accone, Exclusive Books’s Batya Green argues that there is a far greater threat to reading in South Africa than book chains.