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Papers in an application for a postponement of the corruption trial of Jacob Zuma and the French arms dealer Thint have been lodged in the Durban High Court. The defence teams of Thint and the former deputy president have indicated that they would oppose any postponement of the trial.
A Port Elizabeth company has taken the Coega Development Corporation to court after losing a R91-million tender allegedly because it had no black partners. Media reports said on Friday that Scribante Construction’s tender for a infrastructure contract was R8-million cheaper than the one that had been awarded.
It has millions of people glued to their television sets, voting in the most authoritarian societies of the Arab world, yet it has nothing to do with politics, Rory McCarthy reports.
In all the excitement and panic of preparing for the 2010 World Cup, Lemmer hopes a little paragraph in Fifa’s 2004 report doesn’t go unnoticed by South Africa’s transport engineers. According to the report that helped sway the voting, the country’s ”urban train network (subway and over ground) is also well frequented and popular in some cities”. Subways? Right, manne, start digging.
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Liberia will celebrate its independence anniversary next week with something of a light show when Monrovia’s street lights are turned on for the first time in 15 years, officials said on Wednesday. Officials made the announcement to delegates at a United States-backed investment conference, hoping to underline progress since the election of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in November.
South Africa and the United Kingdom have agreed to a joint prison-official training programme, the Ministry of Correctional Services said on Wednesday. Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour is in London on a four-day visit to prisons, said the minister’s spokesperson Luphumzo Kebeni in a statement.
Israeli air strikes on Lebanon killed 57 civilians and a Hezbollah fighter on Wednesday, the deadliest toll of the eight-day-old war, as thousands of villagers fled north and more foreigners were evacuated. Hezbollah rockets killed two children in the northern city of Nazareth, medics said. More Hezbollah rockets fell on the city of Haifa and one hit an empty seafront restaurant.
Hot on the heels of the decision to change the name of Johannesburg International airport to OR Tambo International airport comes another major name adjustment: the city council of Potchefstroom in the North West voted on Tuesday night to change the town’s name to Tlokwe.
They belch hundreds of millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year, but South Africa’s coal-fired power stations will remain the major suppliers of the country’s energy needs for years to come, Eskom said on Wednesday. ”We need to be very clear: coal will remain a major, major part of our [energy] supply,” Eskom said.