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/ 18 November 2005
There is a good Zulu word that captures why African National Congress Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s guilt or innocence on fraud charges is not an issue for his supporters. It is ukusizelana — ”empathy” or ”mutual help”. ”It’s like this,” says Mike Zuma, a guest at the Friends of the Jacob Zuma Trust cocktail party on the Durban beachfront last Friday evening.
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/ 18 November 2005
The United Nations’s special rapporteur on torture has turned down an offer to visit Guantánamo Bay after the United States refused to grant the UN’s experts unfettered access to the prison. The UN’s panel of experts said that restrictions imposed by the US would make it impossible to judge the conditions under which around 500 detainees from the war on terror are being held at the camp.
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/ 18 November 2005
The Constitutional Court is expected to give its decisive verdict soon on the emotive issue of same-gender marriages. It will be announcing whether the Supreme Court of Appeal was correct in its judgement that such marriages should be allowed in accordance with our Bill of Rights.
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/ 17 November 2005
Tunisian authorities on Thursday refused to allow the head of press freedom group Reporters Without Borders into the country to attend the United Nations communications and internet summit. The Paris-based group said that its secretary general Robert Menard was refused entry at Tunis airport.
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/ 17 November 2005
A hooded Islamic militant thought to be one of Asia’s most wanted men has warned Western nations to expect more attacks in a video found in his slain colleague’s hideout and aired in Indonesia. A balaclava-clad man, believed by Vice President Jusuf Kalla to be Malaysian Noordin Mohammad Top, threatened Western nations in a recording recovered from the bomb-packed hideout.
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/ 17 November 2005
New Zealand were chosen by the International Rugby Board as hosts for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in Dublin on Thursday. New Zealand edged out Japan after South Africa was voted out in the first round. The result was never expected as SA, along with Japan, had been considered clear favourites to go head-to-head in the final round for the right to stage the rugby showpiece.
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/ 17 November 2005
The killing of Constable Francis Rasuge was an ”appalling” crime, Judge Ronald Hendricks told murderer William Nkuna as he sentenced him to life in prison on Thursday. Nkuna was convicted last month of killing Constable Francis Rasuge, even though her remains have not been found. She was last seen with him outside a hair salon in Temba on August 27 last year.
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/ 17 November 2005
The South African government stood ready to assist Namibia, if asked, in probing the recent discovery of mass graves in that country. ”The government has noted with concern reports about mass graves in Namibia, allegedly perpetrated by the apartheid forces,” Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said on Thursday.
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/ 17 November 2005
National Intelligence Agency director general Billy Masetlha is to pursue legal action in a bid to have his suspension overturned, his lawyer Imraan Haffegee said on Thursday. He would not divulge the exact nature of the intended action. ”I have sent a letter to my opponents [attorneys for Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils and President Thabo Mbeki] proposing a way forward,” Haffegee said.