The Independent Democrats have rejected a final offer to become part of a multiparty government in the city of Cape Town, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. ”At the eleventh hour, the ID rejected this entirely reasonable offer,” said the DA’s Ryan Coetzee in a statement.
India’s ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi resigned from Parliament on Thursday following opposition allegations that she had breached parliamentary regulations by holding other salaried posts. "I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do," she told reporters.
South Africa’s Standard Bank has entered into a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Credit Suisse to jointly develop a South African institutional agency stockbroker, to be named Credit Suisse Standard Securities. The joint venture will incorporate the current institutional agency stockbroking business of Standard Bank.
A four-year-old boy died after he was brutally assaulted when he refused to call his mother’s lesbian lover ”Daddy”, media reports said on Thursday. Jandre’s mother, Hanelie Botha (31), and her partner Engeline de Nysschen (33) appeared in the Vereeniging Regional Court on Wednesday and were found guilty of the boy’s gruesome murder.
The world’s tallest man is searching high and low for a girlfriend to share his life with, a Hong Kong news report said on Thursday. Bao Xishun (55) from China is 2,36m tall but has never married or even dated because of his extreme height, according to the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily.
The Wellington Hurricanes return from overseas to confront a South African opponent on home turf on Friday at the start of the seventh round of rugby union’s Super 14. In the absence of the competition leaders, the Canterbury Crusaders — who have a bye — the Hurricanes have the chance to move into first place if they can dispatch the Sharks.
For the first time in at least 40 years, supplies of Coca-Cola dried up Wednesday in yet another sign of the crippling economic crisis in Zimbabwe, where people suffer acute bread shortages and farmers warn that worse is yet to come. Harare agents for the United States Coca-Cola company said local production of the drink stopped earlier this month, but refused to give official reasons.
A family who disappeared while on holiday in a remote mountain area were safely back at home on Wednesday after spending nearly three weeks marooned in their snow-bound motor home at an altitude of 1 158m. They survived by rationing dried food, bought in anticipation of a millennium bug meltdown in 2000, and drinking snow.
A Spanish hospital ship and patrol boats trawled international waters off Mauritania on Wednesday looking for would-be immigrants on a new and dangerous sea route from Africa to Europe that has already claimed more than 1 000 lives. Police picked up 122 immigrants from the beaches of the holiday island of Tenerife on Tuesday.
Our watchdogs are waking up — the guardians of the public good across the private and public spheres are baring their teeth in favour of the citizen and the consumer. It has come not a moment too soon, as these offices are vital to ensuring transparency in public process and private transaction.