A "hoax" e-mail campaign similar to the one that implicated top government officials in an alleged plot to smear African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma has surfaced in Namibia, strengthening suspicions that the e-mails are the work of an "outside force".
National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi visited the Johannesburg home of slain businessman and fraudster Brett Kebble several times last year, mostly for social occasions, three sources with direct personal experience of the visits have told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
The advocate for Pakistani national Khalid Mahmood Rashid, Zehir Omar, has accused the Department of Home Affairs of fabricating a document from the Pakistani Ministry of the Interior to show that Rashid was deported to Pakistan. South African authorities arrested Rashid in October, and the Department of Home Affairs said he was deported to Pakistan the following month as an illegal immigrant.
President Thabo Mbeki will reinforce the message of clean, morally unquestionable leadership, dispel concerns about a centralised Presidency and bank on his urban, middle-class support in countering damaging attacks on him in the presidential succession battle.
Standing in the doorway of her tent, Angelina Jolie tasted the sweet desert air. The Namibian landscape was breathtakingly beautiful, now that all the unsightly people had been removed. Her tongue flickered delicately from her mouth, unsoiled now by the rank flavour of the humans, and contentedly she licked the morning dew off the sunken bridge of her nose.
The genetic modification (GM) battlefield has been extended to biofuels production, with South Africa featuring among a number of countries that are being asked to allow the import of GM maize to make ethanol. The GM industry worldwide wants to use GM to boost the energy properties of crops for ethanol production, says an environmental lawyer.
The rift that is said to divide the African National Congress into two competing camps is a bit like the Loch Ness monster. Sightings are frequently reported in the media. But no one has ever been able to locate the animal or verify its existence. And, like the ever-elusive creature that is said to lurk in the dark waters of the Scottish highlands, the myth of deep-seated divisions in the ANC’s highest leadership structures remains pervasive.
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President Thabo Mbeki on Friday denied suggestions of a ”supposed life and death conflict” between himself and former deputy president Jacob Zuma. Reality would also prove speculation that the African National Congress was in danger of falling apart was nothing more than ”an expression of the vain wishes of its inventors”, he said in his weekly newsletter on the ANC website.
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Down a dusty ally, past noisy chicken coops and roving bands of small children, about 50 Ivorian football supporters gaze intently at a tiny TV screen suspended from the rafters of the green canvas awning at the X-Five bar. Côte d’Ivoire has qualified for the World Cup finals for the first time this year.
Sweat is running down Patricia Clark’s face as she shouts at a crowd of hundreds of Liberians through a megaphone. ”The law says, if you jump on a woman without her consent, that is rape. You will go to prison for 10 years. If you rape a child, you will get life. You die in prison; they bury you; they will chain you in your grave.”