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/ 18 January 2006
Iran on Wednesday started what it termed a ”close consultation” with South Africa on the dispute over its nuclear programme ahead of a key meeting of the United Nations atomic energy agency. ”Our countries have always had positive and constructive negotiations,” Iran’s acting foreign minister told reporters in Pretoria.
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/ 18 January 2006
Pay television channel M-Net has also turned down an interview with former state president PW Botha, spokesperson Lani Lombard said on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, e.tv said it had decided against broadcasting the interview because the production company, Thuthuka Productions, wanted too much for it.
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/ 18 January 2006
Tension was mounting on Wednesday in the city of Warri as soldiers hunted for a heavily armed militia that has attacked oil facilities in southern Nigeria and kidnapped four foreign workers. Boat crews and human rights activists said military forces have deployed in strength on the waterways of the Niger Delta.
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/ 18 January 2006
Three female employees of a dry-cleaning operation were put one by one and still alive into a large washing machine containing chemicals before being tied up and strangled, the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court heard on Wednesday. The grizzly details of the murders were laid out by investigating officer Inspector Sello Molapisi.
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/ 18 January 2006
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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.
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/ 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.
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/ 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.
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/ 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.
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/ 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.
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/ 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.