Municipal managers could soon be forced to sign performance agreements to improve service delivery, Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi said on Tuesday. ”Now there will be a direct relation between what managers do and what the community expects of them,” Mufamadi said.
Former magistrate Ian Yuill is to investigate allegations of poor management, negligence and transgressions of the law by metro police members serving Cape Town’s Helderberg region. ”Yes, [the brief] is fairly far-reaching, but it’s important to be as wide as possible,” said Yuill on Tuesday.
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Fund-raising efforts to ensure that Zuma’s legal fees are paid will be ”doubled”, as more than the previously estimated R12-million may be needed. In a personal affidavit filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday, Zuma said he was ”effectively unemployed and quite unemployable”.
South Africa’s population was estimated at approximately 47,4-million at mid-year 2006, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Tuesday. In addition, Stats SA said the estimated overall HIV-prevalence rate is approximately 11%, from less than 9% in 2001, with the HIV-positive population estimated at approximately 5,2-million.
Steve McClaren wasted no time in distancing himself from Sven-Goran Eriksson. ”I’m going to do it my way,” McClaren said on Tuesday as he officially took over as England’s 11th national soccer coach. He assumed control exactly a month after England were knocked out in the quarterfinals of the World Cup by Portugal, ending Eriksson’s five-and-a-half year tenure.
Telkom’s tariffs are 2,1% lower overall as from Tuesday. On June 5, Telkom filed price adjustments with the Independent Communication Authority of South Africa, which were subsequently approved. Steven Hayward, Telkom’s managing executive for retail marketing, said that although the net impact of the proposed prices will vary, the overall effect will be a reduction in cost.
A reputation for cruelty, even by the standards of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime he led, set Ta Mok apart from his revolutionary comrades and earned him the nickname of "The Butcher". Ta Mok died on July 21 at the age of 80 after languishing in jail since 1999.
Television news groups have received the go-ahead from the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein to capture court footage during the upcoming appeal hearing of Durban businessman Schabir Shaik, a court official said on Tuesday. ”The president of the Supreme Court of Appeal decided that media coverage will be allowed in court during the matter,” he said.
Nigeria took another step towards acquiring nuclear technology for civilian use when it officially swore in the board of the National Atomic Energy Commission. The ceremony on Monday was presided over by Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo, who is also head of the body.
A fire at a Ugandan primary school killed six boys trapped in a dormitory, officials said on Tuesday. A charcoal stove placed by a wall started the blaze late on Monday. Fire then spread through a building of the army school in Jinja, about 80km east of the capital Kampala.