Villagers flying white flags from cars, buses and pickup trucks flooded out of south Lebanon on Monday after United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice won from Israel a brief suspension of devastating air strikes. Rice said she believed a ceasefire to end the 20-day war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas could be forged this week, but some fighting went on.
Mortgage advances by the monetary sector increased by 29,8% year-on-year in June 2006, which is down from the 30% level it has hovered at since March to May, and potentially indicates the early stages of a downward trend in demand for housing, according to analysts.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe on Monday acceded to a defence proposal to postpone Parliament’s Travelgate trial. Hlophe postponed the case to October 17. Twenty-eight people — 23 current and former MPs and five travel agents — are in the dock for the alleged defrauding of Parliament of about R24-million.
Presidency official Titus Mafolo was free to join "any organisation" of his choice as a citizen, says South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Responding to a question from Democratic Alliance MP OM Thetjeng on Monday who asked whether the "Native Club" was a presidential initiative or was government funded, she said the club was not an initiative of the president.
Police were on Monday still investigating an attack on 11 British schoolchildren who were robbed of R10Â 000 and ten cellphones in Honeydew early last week, West Rand Police said. The pupils are part of a group on a rugby and netball tour in South Africa.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial began shortly after 10am in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday with Judge Herbert Msimang at the helm. Zuma had smiled and nodded his head when asked how he was feeling as he entered court A.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has been on strike since 6pm on Sunday at Kumba Resources and the union will be consulting its members at 6pm on Monday regarding Kumba’s latest offer, NUM Kumba representative Jackie Tshimanegape said.
Indian police have arrested a journalist who may know those behind a series of coordinated bombs on Mumbai’s rail network earlier this month that killed 186 people, officers said on Monday. The latest arrest takes the number of people in police custody to nine in an investigation that has spread across several states, and into neighbouring Nepal.
Anglo Platinum announced a significant improvement on Monday in headline earnings for the half-year ended 30 June 2006. Headline earnings per share, attributable to ordinary shareholders, increased by 117% to R20,02 per share, the company said in a statement in Johannesburg.
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KwaZulu-Natal Premier S’bu Ndebele joined African National
Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe and KwaZulu-Natal finance minister Zweli Mkhize in the front row of the Pietermaritzburg
High Court ahead of Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial on Monday.