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/ 15 December 2005
South African arms manufacturer Denel expects to realise R500-million in the sale of its non-core assets, which forms part of the government’s policy to streamline parastatals and raise much-needed capital. Denel’s non-core assets include shopping malls, office parks, an electrical products company, a soya processing plant and IT companies.
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/ 15 December 2005
Payments to SABC non-executive board members increased by almost 200% over the past financial year, as the board held almost double the number of board and sub-committee meetings it is required to do. Non-executive emoluments for the year ended March 31 2005 stood at more than R2-million, while in the previous financial year it amounted to R714 000.
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/ 15 December 2005
The United States and the European Union spurned calls to end the stalemate in global trade talks as six days of negotiations in Hong Kong began on Tuesday, with Brussels and Washington at odds over support for farmers. The director general of the World Trade Organisation, warned trade ministers that they had to be ”open-minded if the talks were to be concluded successfully next year.
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/ 15 December 2005
Kenya’s political crisis has deepened, with 22 politicians refusing to accept posts in a reconstituted government, and foreign envoys adding their voices to demands for a snap election. Kenya has been without an effective government since President Mwai Kibaki fired his Cabinet three weeks ago.
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/ 15 December 2005
Foreign big-game hunters will be banished from a vast area of western Canada’s wilderness, local environmentalists said, announcing an unusual purchase of a commercial hunting licence. The Raincoast Conservation Foundation privately raised 1,35-million Canadian dollars (,17-million) to buy one of North America’s largest guide outfitters
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/ 15 December 2005
”When I woke up in Johannesburg last Thursday morning, I was surprised to discover that the Australian government had included my name on a list of more than 120 Zimbabweans barred from doing business with that country’s Reserve Bank for allegedly aiding and abetting President Robert Mugabe’s government,” writes the Mail & Guardian, CEO Trevor Ncube.
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/ 15 December 2005
The Human Sciences Research Council has lost its highest-profile social scientist, Xolela Mangcu, who cited political interference as a reason for leaving. Mangcu alleges that the CEO, Olive Shisana, did not protect him from the criticism of Cabinet ministers, as well as first lady Zanele Mbeki. The HSRC alleges that Mangcu violated the organisation’s media policy.
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/ 15 December 2005
While some of the refugees who streamed across the border from Togo into Benin by the thousands last April have finally gone home, more than 19 000 are still in exile, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The agency estimated last August that 24 500 refugees had fled east from Togo into Benin.
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/ 15 December 2005
Poor Jacob Zuma. With his political fortunes on the turn, the ANC deputy president must be casting an anxious eye to his professional future. He is soon to crash up against what could well turn out to be the cold, indifferent edifice of common law. In the meantime, all Mr Zuma has had to reassure him that his day in court will be conducted in a style befitting his dignity.
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/ 15 December 2005
The African National Congress Youth League says it is ”disgusted at the lies perpetuated by SABC radio” after a report aired claiming that ANCYL president Fikile ”Zuma 100% With An Option For 56% Depending On How The Trials Go” Beebopaloola has been barred from speaking at the South African Students Congress conference in Limpopo at the weekend.