No image available
/ 18 January 2006
![]()
The manner in which the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and other state organs operate needs to be reviewed, former deputy president Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. Again indicating political motives behind the NPA action against him, Zuma said a review of state organs might be needed.
No image available
/ 18 January 2006
American first lady Laura Bush on Sunday began her four-day trip to West Africa full of praise for the continent’s first elected woman president.
No image available
/ 18 January 2006
South Africans are proud of our democratic Constitution and its media freedom provisions. And so we should be, given our exemplary rights to free speech and our diverse media, and their contrast to neighbouring countries Zimbabwe and Swaziland.
No image available
/ 18 January 2006
Zambia on Wednesday called on the African Union to oppose any effort to bring United Nations sanctions against Iran because of its controversial nuclear programme, saying these would hurt regional economies. Iran last week announced it was resuming nuclear research.
No image available
/ 18 January 2006
The government asked the Durban High Court on Wednesday to seize R34-million in assets from Schabir Shaik, the former financial adviser of dismissed deputy president Jacob Zuma. Lawyers and journalists crowded the court room on Wednesday, but Shaik did not attend the hearing, radio reports said.
No image available
/ 18 January 2006
Motorists were contacting the Johannesburg metro police’s new SMS information service at the rate of one a second at times on Wednesday to find out whether there were any unpaid fines or warrants of arrest against them. ”It’s like New Year’s Eve. It’s going crazy,” said metro police spokesperson Edna Mamoyane.
No image available
/ 18 January 2006
The ruling African National Congress should amend its municipal councillors’ oath to include a penalty for non-compliance, the opposition Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. Failure to do so renders the ANC’s stated commitment to fighting corruption, maladministration and mismanagement mere rhetoric, chief whip Douglas Gibson told reporters in Cape Town.
No image available
/ 18 January 2006
European stocks were sharply lower on Wednesday as a chaotic session in Japan compounded gloom over earnings updates from the United States, where Intel, Yahoo and Wells Fargo failed to meet expectations. Given that ”the selling was relentless through the night”, the ”sea of red” was to be expected, said a trader.
No image available
/ 18 January 2006
Twenty-four people froze to death in western Russia and Moscow switched to a ”strict” energy conservation regime on Wednesday as overnight temperatures plunged below minus 30 degrees Celsius in the capital and to substantially colder levels elsewhere in the country.
No image available
/ 18 January 2006
With just a day to go before Africa’s first-ever World Social Forum (WSF) gets under way in Mali, attitudes towards the meeting appear somewhat mixed in the West African country. Some expect just to hear ”the same speeches”, while others want to ”show the world’s leading powers that their policies are unfair”.