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/ 12 December 2005
The Democratic Alliance believes the Cabinet failed to muster a pass in 2005 and performed, on balance, worse than last year, party leader Tony Leon said on Monday. In the DA’s assessment, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was again the worst performer, while Finance Minister Trevor Manuel performed the best.
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/ 12 December 2005
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The claim that Jacob Zuma confessed to having had consensual sex with a woman he is alleged to have raped was ”manufactured” by the Mail & Guardian newspaper and the journalist who wrote the story, Zuma said in a statement on Monday.
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/ 12 December 2005
The National Treasury and the CEOs of South Africa’s top five life insurers have signed a statement of intent agreeing to set minimum standards of conduct, including an agreement to reimburse past policyholders going back to January 1, 2001, that will cost the industry a total of R2,6-billion.
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/ 12 December 2005
The South African swimming team could probably practise in a pool filled with the tears brought to the eyes of their compatriots by Roland Schoeman’s statement this week that he wants to hear Nkosi Sikilel’ iAfrika played when he wins gold medals.
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/ 12 December 2005
Injury came calling on South Africa again in Perth on Monday when pace-bowler Makhaya Ntini split the webbing on his hand during the second day of a three-day tour match against a Western Australian XI at Perth’s James Oval. Ntini — who bowls with his right hand — had five stitches to close the wound on his left hand.
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/ 12 December 2005
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Monday urged the East African nation to shun heated political debates and focus on development amid an outcry over his new Cabinet that has sparked a revolt among ministers and deputies. He delivered an address marking the 42nd anniversary of Kenya’s independence from Britain.
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/ 12 December 2005
A Ugandan court on Monday refused for a third time to release detained opposition leader Kizza Besigye, as a judge set a trial date for next week for him to face treason and rape charges. Besigye, seen as President Yoweri Museveni’s top rival in elections set for March, has remained in prison since mid-November.
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/ 12 December 2005
As the last three survivors of Nigeria’s latest bloody aviation disaster struggled to cling to life on Monday, the bereaved city of Port Harcourt asked why an elderly aircraft could be allowed to spill so much young blood. A newspaper showed school pictures of members of a 71-strong party that was torn up and burnt to death on Saturday.
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/ 12 December 2005
Two children died in Pola Park east of Johannesburg on Monday after their mother’s ex-boyfriend allegedly set fire to the shack they were sleeping in, police said. The man, in his 40s, had an argument with the children’s mother while she was with her boyfriend in a shack at the Britti squatter camp on Sunday night, police said.
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/ 12 December 2005
Sudan’s top leadership, including President Omar el-Beshir, bears responsibility for widespread atrocities committed in the troubled western Darfur region, a leading human rights watchdog said on Monday. ”The Sudanese government at the highest levels is responsible for widespread and systematic abuses in Darfur,” Human Rights Watch said.