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President Thabo Mbeki has appointed Manala Manzini as director general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) with immediate effect. The appointment is in accordance with the Constitution and the Intelligence Services Act, and for a three-year term, government communications head Joel Netshitenzhe said in a media statement.
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille is to meet Fifa’s local organising committee (LOC) and Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool on Thursday afternoon to discuss the financing of the proposed Green Point Stadium. The meeting, at a city hotel, would also be attended by members of her mayoral committee and Cabinet ministers, she said in a statement on Wednesday.
The first galactico of the Florentino Perez era at Real Madrid, Portugal star Luis Figo, compared the last few years at the Spanish club to a circus in an interview with Spanish newspaper Marca on Wednesday. ”If the most important thing in your project is to make a circus then you have a lot less chance of achieving sporting success.
The Board of South African rugby has approved a Presidents’ Council recommendation to send a fact-finding mission to the Southern Spears franchise to ascertain their state of readiness for participation in the Vodacom Super 14 competition next year. Led by SA Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins, the delegation will visit Port Elizabeth on Friday March 31.
Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi will visit flood-stricken areas in Taung, North West, on Thursday, his office said. Spokesperson Zandile Nkuta said a total of 543 houses were affected in the community of about 182 000 people.
Telkom presented an amended offer on Wednesday to trade unions embroiled in a pay dispute with the company, trade union Solidarity said. ”Telkom’s amended offer is a step in the right direction, but the scheme can be improved even further,” Solidarity deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann said in a statement.
A workshop that went up in flames in Johannesburg on Wednesday, killing 12 people, was not suitable for accommodation and would have been earmarked for closure, a municipal official said. If the building had been inspected, it would have been earmarked for closure, the official said.
Separate reports on the so-called Oilgate scandal, one before Parliament and the other tabled last year, directly contradict each other, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. The two reports are in ”stark contrast”, said DA MP Anchen Dreyer in a statement.
Some South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) content is tripe. But depending on your view, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. At least, that’s what emerged at a Johannesburg colloquium held by the public broadcaster last week. One speaker referred to tripe as a delicacy in his culture.