Three international performing artists are to join a host of local stars in a charity concert in Johannesburg later this year. Christina Aguilera, Diana Ross and violinist Lucia Micarelli will be performing at a gala banquet at the Coca-Cola Dome, Northgate, on November 9.
Family members should be allowed to switch off the life-support system of a brain-dead person, said 70% of South African adults approached in a recent survey. But half of them opposed active euthanasia, indicated the poll results released on Monday. The telephonic survey was conducted among 493 adults in urban areas last month.
The case against four men accused of raping a Belgian pupil was weakened after a newspaper published their pictures before an identity parade could be held. The four have so far refused to subject themselves to a line-up because the <i>Daily Sun</i> newspaper published photos of them after the incident.
Planned boundary changes to an Eastern Cape ”cross-border municipality”, announced recently, were preceded by intense behind-the-scenes lobbying by provincial African National Congress leaders concerned about the loss of electoral support. The Mail & Guardian has learned that the Eastern Cape ANC was particularly concerned about the relocation of Kokstad to KwaZulu-Natal.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The tripartite alliance is to meet sooner rather than later to discuss President Thabo Mbeki’s proposed inquiry into an alleged plot against Jacob Zuma, African National Congress spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said on Monday, as a call was made for Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s resignation.
The CEO of the state broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), has initiatied "an internal process" to review all facts and events surrounding the August 9 footage and news coverage of the booing incident involving Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
Climate change is a ”very powerful and threatening reality”, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in Port Elizabeth on Monday. ”It could have a direct cost to our economy,” he told the congress of the Institute of Environment and Recreation Management.
A corruption scandal on Monday hit Egypt’s best-known media tycoon, also a long-time confidant of President Hosni Mubarak, a few days before the president runs for re-election in a landmark poll. The El-Osboa newspaper made allegations regarding massive salaries, hidden benefits and the siphoning of funds.
The appeal process Schabir Shaik was on track, his attorney Reeves Parsee said on Monday. Shaik was sentenced in July to 15 years in prison on two corruption counts, and another three years for fraud. The sentences were to run concurrently, but Shaik is currently out on bail of R100 000.
Two important nuclear anniversaries take place in August. The first — for many the most significant — is that commemorating the dropping of the first nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6 1945. The second event is likely to receive less notice. But it has, in its way, been just as significant.