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.
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.
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.
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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.
A passenger was escorted off a Tokyo-bound plane in Hong Kong after she refused to put her Gucci handbag under the seat, disrupting the flight for more than an hour, a report said on Monday. The Cathay Pacific plane was ready to take off but was forced to stop on the runway because the young passenger would not listen to a flight attendant’s request, the <i>Apple Daily</i> reported.
India’s President Abdul Kalam says he has not seen a movie for 50 years because he spends so much time reading scientific literature, a report said on Monday. "You won’t believe it but it’s true," Kalam (74) told Radio Kashmir in a weekend visit to revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, <i>The Hindu</i> newspaper reported.
It was an unremarkable three-storey building on the edge of town. But for two extended families, the Shalhoubs and the Hashems, it was a last refuge. They could not afford the extortionate taxi fares to Tyre and hoped that if they all crouched together on the ground floor they would be safe.