Clive Derby-Lewis, imprisoned for life for the murder of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani in 1993, complained to the press ombudsman on Tuesday about an article describing former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s visit to him in prison. The Sunday Independent reported on July 16 that Zuma visited ”Hani’s killers” in a move said to have annoyed President Thabo Mbeki.
Luxemburg’s Frank Schleck won the 15th stage of the Tour de France over 187km from Gap to L’Alpe d’Huez on Tuesday. The CSC rider, who won the Amstel Gold Race earlier this year, finished 11 seconds ahead of Italian Damiano Cunego of the Lampre team.
South Africa winger Delron Buckley was handed a trial with English Premiership club Everton on Tuesday. Buckley (28) will train with the Merseysiders in an attempt to persuade manager David Moyes to give him a permanent contract. The Durban-born player was released by German club Borussia Dortmund at the end of last season.
It begs belief that Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula has had ”the unmitigated gall” to accept a position as the leader of the over 200-strong election observer delegation to the Democratic Republic of Congo elections ”when he is failing so abjectly at his job back home in South Africa”, the Democratic Alliance’s Dianne Kohler Barnard said on Tuesday.
South Africa is not doing enough to address the Aids pandemic, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said on Tuesday. ”It is very disturbing that other countries in sub-Saharan Africa have managed to reduce their Aids statistics while South Africa continues to have the highest HIV infection rate,” SAIRR researcher Marco MacFarlane said in a statement.
Former champion Ernie Els is fully recovered from the knee injury which caused him to miss last year’s British Open and says he is ready to return to the winner’s enclosure. ”My knee is really good. It’s been almost a year now, almost to the day, since I hurt it,” the world number eight told reporters on Tuesday.
The strike by trade union Solidarity’s members at petrochemicals group Sasol is set to enter a second day after a meeting held with the company did not lead to any resolution of the wage dispute and other issues, Solidarity spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans said on Tuesday.
Officials from the United States and African diaspora on Tuesday urged African countries to look inwards to find economic breakthroughs and much-needed investments. Florizelle Liser, a senior official in the US Trade Representative Office, said African nations had advantages they could learn to exploit.
A document has been drawn up to help facilitate the signing of a final ceasefire agreement in Burundi, South African Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Tuesday. The document was drawn up by South African Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula and Burundi’s regional leaders after talks at the weekend.
Zimbabwe Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa has ordered Attorney General (AG) Sobuza Gula-Ndebele to drop charges of political violence against ruling Zanu-PF party supporters and state security agents, authoritative sources told ZimOnline on Monday.