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/ 29 November 2005
A Swiss ”sex tourist” who was caught a month ago allegedly sodomising a South African boy has cut a deal with the state to pay a fine, The Star newspaper reported on Tuesday. Child-rights organisations have reacted with outrage at what they described as slap on wrist for Peter Zimmerman.
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/ 29 November 2005
The taxi recapitalisation programme of the government exemplifies the attempt, and inevitable failure, of the project to modernise this sector. Under the combined class hegemony of transnational capital, the vehicle manufacturers winning the tender would have manufactured, supplied and maintained a fleet of 90Â 000 new vehicles.
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/ 29 November 2005
Ouraye Sall holds up a razor blade and begins to describe, with the detachment of a surgeon, how she once used the tools of her former trade. She breaks the razor clean in half, then snips off the sharp corners. There’s no irony in her voice when she describes the great care she went to to avoid inflicting too much pain with the lethal instrument.
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/ 29 November 2005
South Africa’s Ministry of Justice recently fended off Israeli accusations that Pretoria was not providing full assistance in a bribery investigation against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. If South Africa and Austria did not cooperate with the investigation, Israeli justice officials were quoted as saying in media reports there, the case would be closed.
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/ 29 November 2005
A genetic experiment to unlock the secrets of the ageing process has created organisms that live six times their usual lifespan, raising hopes that it might be possible to slow ageing in humans. The geneticists behind the study say the increase in lifespan is so striking, they may have tapped into one of the most fundamental mechanisms that controls the rate at which living creatures age.
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/ 29 November 2005
More than 1 000 arrests have been made in three provinces in the police’s Operation Basadi in the past four days, mostly for crimes against women. The arrests were made in the Western Cape, Free State and Northern Cape, mainly for rape, domestic violence and abuse, said Captain Percy Morokane.
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/ 28 November 2005
President Robert Mugabe’s party in Zimbabwe has won all but seven seats in a controversial new Senate, crushing the challenge posed by a severely weakened opposition party, final results showed on Monday. The ruling party secured 43 seats in the 66-seat Upper House, while the main opposition party won seven.
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/ 28 November 2005
Suspended National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha filed an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court on Monday in a bid to secure his legal rights in a running probe into misconduct. Masetlha was told on Thursday that the inspector general of intelligence wanted to interview him on Tuesday.
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/ 28 November 2005
NGOs, activists and other interest groups opposing elephant culling in the Kruger National Park met Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Monday. A report from the South African National Parks board in July proposed culling between 5Â 000 and 7Â 000 elephants.