The Competition Commission on Thursday recommended the approval, under certain conditions, of a merger between Media24 and the owners of the Natal Witness newspaper. The condition is that the shares held by the Natal Witness in Lincroft Books be transferred to Lexshell 496 Investments.
Mlindazwe Nkula, a founding member of the Pan Africanist Congress, has died at the age of 76, the PAC announced on Thursday. Nkula, who died on July 8, was also a founder member of the PAC’s armed wing, Poqo, in 1959. After the 1994 elections, he worked at the pension division of the Department of Finance in Pretoria.
The Vredefort Dome, spanning the Free State and the North West provinces, has been declared a World Heritage Site, the Department of Arts and Culture said on Thursday, making it the country’s seventh such site. This decision was made earlier in the day at the 29th World Heritage Committee meeting being held in Durban.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reports in its latest edition, available on Friday, that the African National Congress has misled the nation on the Oilgate scandal. Documents in the possession of the <i>M&G</i> make it clear that Imvume Management — the company that channelled R11-million in state oil money to the ANC before the 2004 election — was effectively a front for the ruling party.
Twenty-one years after losing their sons to the anti-apartheid struggle, 10 families could finally be able to bury their remains, which are being recovered from unmarked graves north of Pretoria. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said the remains will be subjected to DNA and forensic testing.
Thousands of villagers in northern Kenya fled their homes in fear on Thursday as new interclan violence wracked parts of the remote region after a brutal massacre and a reprisal attack killed at least 76 people this week, officials and residents of the area said.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Thursday defended South Africa’s policy of quiet diplomacy on Zimbabwe, saying louder lobbying of President Robert Mugabe has not yielded results. Dlamini-Zuma was speaking following talks in London with Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) nations slammed the door in Africa’s face in Gleneagles last week, just as the continent thought it was on the verge of a breakthrough in new aid and fair trade, ActionAid said on Thursday.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela and United States First Lady Laura Bush campaigned in two South African cities this week against the spread of Aids. Mandela, about to turn 87, urged young people to use condoms and not to have sex prematurely, and recruited four new ambassadors for his 46664 campaign.
Relatives desperately sought news of their loved ones on Thursday as medical workers struggled to identify mangled corpses a day after about 150 people died in Pakistan’s worst train crash in 15 years. Stations across the country have been thronged with people frantically searching victim lists posted by the authorities.