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If the rape allegation against Jacob Zuma was part of a political conspiracy against him, it was poorly planned, the state prosecutor told the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday. ”If there was a political conspiracy, it wasn’t the most well-planned conspiracy,” said Herman Broodryk.
Like eager, pervasive predators, Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates will be closing in on Premier Soccer League (PSL) log leaders and defending champions Kaizer Chiefs in intriguing league matches on Wednesday night. The success-hungry Sundowns are in a position to leap into a commanding lead.
The fate of the Southern Spears is expected to be decided at a president’s council meeting of the South African Rugby Union on Wednesday. At its meeting last Friday, the council poured cold water over the Spears’ chance of playing in the Super 14 competition next year. The move has been slammed by the African National Congress.
Cape Town cannot throw millions of rands of public money into starting the Green Point Stadium project without an assurance that it will be completed, mayor Helen Zille said on Tuesday. Zille was responding to an African National Congress appeal not to use the 2010 Soccer World Cup as a ”football to score cheap political points and to settle election battles”.
Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the arrest of aides to former Liberian president Charles Taylor, fuelling Tuesday’s rumours that Liberia’s former head, now living in exile in Nigeria, has escaped from his residence in the southern town of Calabar. Remi Oyo, spokesperson to Obasanjo, said that the Nigerian government had ordered the aides’ immediate arrest.
White House chief of staff Andrew Card has resigned and will be replaced by budget chief Joshua Bolten, President George Bush said Tuesday. Bush has come under intense pressure in recent weeks, including from within his own Republican Party, to shake up his White House staff amid a sharp slump in his personal-approval ratings.
Clinical trials are pulling in up to R2-billion a year into South Africa, yet researchers fear the industry may be compromised by the slowness of regulatory authorities to approve, or reject, potential trials. The issue was thrown into relief by an incident in the United Kingdom, when six clinical trial subjects ended up in intensive care after being injected with a part mouse, part human monoclonal antibody.
Two of the unions representing striking Telkom workers urged the parastatal on Tuesday to reissue an offer it retracted on Monday in order to overcome a deadlock in wage negotiations. ”We need to make it clear that there is no change in the unions’ stance as regards the offer that was put to us on Friday and then retracted.”
Harbhajan Singh celebrated his comeback with a superb all-round show to guide India to a 39-run victory over England in the first one-dayer in New Delhi on Tuesday. The offspinner, who missed a one-day series in Pakistan last month due to a finger injury, finished with 5-31 as India defended their modest total of 203 by dismissing England for 164.
Former Liberian leader and war-crimes suspect Charles Taylor has disappeared from the villa in which he was living in exile in Nigeria, the Nigerian Presidency said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement said Taylor had left his house in Calabar some time on Monday night and President Olusegun Obasanjo had set up a panel to investigate.