Senior police officers were overpaid, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday. ”It seems that President Thabo Mbeki’s 2005 State of the Nation commitment to ‘improve the salaries of members of the police service’ has largely only benefited senior police managers, including National Police Commissioner, Jackie Selebi,” DA spokesperson Roy Jankielsohn said.
Eritrea on Monday denied accusations by Ethiopia that it was behind three separate explosions that rocked Addis Ababa last week and wounded four people. Yemane Gebremeskel, director of the president’s office, said that the weekend accusations by Addis Ababa were meant to shift "attention from their own domestic problems".
”Back in the 1990s, I visited Kona Village Resort on Hawaii’s ”big island”. A truly beautiful and charming place, the overblown telegenic hula of Elvis and Steve McGarrett’s high-rise Honolulu nearby seemed a million miles away. With a fresh flower lei around my neck, I quickly settled into the ”barefoot luxury” of what the hotel blurb called the real Hawaii”, writes Simon Mills.
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To freeze during a rape and then take a long time to report it is consistent with the behaviour of a rape survivor, Jacob Zuma’s rape trial heard on Monday. Clinical psychologist Merle Friedman was testifying on the responses to rape by survivors and in particular with regard to the woman who laid charges against the former deputy president.
South African cricket fans woke up on Monday morning buoyed by the unbelievable achievement of their cricket heroes in doing the improbable.
President Thabo Mbeki has shared the writings of Deng Xiaoping with his spy service, intoned Duke Ellington to oil executives, astounded astronomers with Shakespeare and preached the Bible to lawmakers. Presidential spokesperson Murphy Morobe puts it mildly: ”He is extremely well read.”
Car maker Volkswagen (VW) and internet giant Google are developing an in-car navigation system that gives directions using Google Earth images, Volkswagen said on Monday. The three-dimensional display, combining road maps with satellite imagery of locations, also makes use of online data that provides the driver with information on traffic conditions and the weather, VW said.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The African National Congress and the Independent Democrats are keeping mum on an apparent deal that has been struck with a third smaller party for control of the Cape Town metropolitan council, according to the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic deliberately took a drug that neutralised the effects of his heart medicine, an expert who examined his blood said on Monday as the United Nations war crimes court in The Netherlands prepared to release his body.
The African Union has extended the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in the western Sudanese Darfur region by six months, after which it will transfer the operation to the United Nations, a statement issued in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa said.