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/ 17 February 2006
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Jacob Zuma’s legal team is set to launch an application to set aside corruption and fraud charges against him. The bid to knock out the state’s case — based on the claim that the former deputy president’s right to a fair trial has been unfairly prejudiced — was mooted last year, but has now been set in motion, Zuma’s attorney Michael Hulley confirmed on Thursday.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) is extremely generous to its problem child Telkom compared with French and Mauritian regulators, which also set prices on South Africa’s key Internet link to the rest of the world, the SAT-3 undersea cable.
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/ 17 February 2006
A series of questions about local government issues (and a few more general ones) to help you decide which party to vote for in the municipal elections on March 1 2006. Question 13. In May last year, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa’s (Idasa) application to have political parties disclose their funding sources was […]
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/ 17 February 2006
‘Good morning and welcome to today’s virtual bus outing in our six-day nostalgia tour package. Today we are going to be taking a look at a few of Johannesburg’s colonially inspired architectural treasures, all of them filled with pre-democratic memories.
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/ 17 February 2006
Not too hot, not too cold, but just right — that’s the Goldilocks formula, and Trevor Manuel’s 10th anniversary Budget has it down to a nicety. Manuel is no longer a stranger in the house of high finance, testing out the furniture, burning his tongue and irritating the bears.
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/ 17 February 2006
History contends that the ashes of Saint Joan of Arc were gathered up from the pyre on which she was burned alive and tossed into the River Seine. Anxious to avoid creating a martyr, the English, who had ordered her death in 1431, wanted nothing left of the 19-year-old French heroine. According to legend, a devoted follower managed to find and conceal some of her remains.
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/ 17 February 2006
”As a Zionist, an Israeli citizen and the ambassador of Israel to South Africa, I read with a great deal of frustration Ronnie Kasrils’s article published under the banner ”Myths of Zionism” (January 27). It is frustrating from the point of view of the content, as well as that of the commentator”, Ilan Baruch, ambassador of Israel to South Africa.
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/ 17 February 2006
Concern is growing among European governments about United States plans to involve them in an expanded, all-out campaign against Islamist extremism from North Africa to South-East Asia, using beefed-up special forces, high-tech weaponry and more intrusive surveillance and intelligence gathering.
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/ 17 February 2006
Oprah is a Zulu. Never mind that she was born and raised in Mississippi and her great-grandparents hailed from no further away than Georgia and North Carolina, Winfrey is not just suggesting her lineage might stretch back thousands of years to a specific African tribe. She is asserting it as a definitive fact.
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/ 17 February 2006
After a grisly series of civilian deaths from bombings in downtown Samarra, Hekmat Mumtaz, leader of the Al Bu Baz tribe, met local al-Qaeda commander Abu Abdullah and asked him to halt operations inside population centres. Mumtaz had himself been released only a month earlier after spending a year in United States detention facilities.