<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>"I wish I knew how it would feel to be free. I wish I could break all the chains holding me. I wish I could say all the things that I should say." The Lighthouse Family song, played during former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s video presentation at Congress of South African Trade Unions’s central committee meeting this week, was intended to express ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma’s predicament as he faces a corruption trial.
Pension Funds Adjudicator Vuyani Ngalwana’s proposal to have hidden pension charges declared illegal can be achieved with registrar’s recommendation and minister’s consent, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has established. "The registrar and the minister have the power under the provisions to declare such practices undesirable," Ngalwana’s deputy, Naleen Jeram, told the <i>M&G</i>.
I have no illusion about my appointment as Pension Funds Adjudicator. I am quite certain that even with the extensive legal experience I have in income tax law, pension law and constitutional law (among other numerous talents), the chances of my appointment under the previous National Party government ) would have been firmly quashed by the colour of my skin.
The day after the completion of the Gaza withdrawal, Israelis and Palestinians will be confronted with important unresolved questions. There is no doubt that the evacuation of Jewish settlers in areas that Israelis consider part of their God-given territory represents a huge ideological reversal.
It is no accident that the ”left”, the supporters of disengagement, reclaimed the national colour, blue, while the radical right wing stayed away from it. In an interview on Newsnight, Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon’s deputy and the leader of the Labour Party, repeated an often overlooked truth.
Old Mutual Healthcare’s deal with Kwacha announced recently is about improving their equity standings before they bid on the government’s civil service medical aid scheme, say analysts. The spokesperson for the Medical Schemes Council, described the deal as ”part of the mad scrambling to get BEE administration companies in place” to tender for the government medical aid scheme.
British police have arrested three South African men in connection with a series of abductions and rapes in Northamptonshire, media reports said on Friday. British police said they had apprehended a 19-year old man from Northampton and a 25-year-old man from London on Thursday.
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Pakistani voters went to the polls on Thursday for local elections that are being seen as a test of President Pervez Musharraf’s fight against Islamic hard-liners and his commitment to women’s rights. Five people died and scores were injured in clashes between rival supporters in the first elections in Pakistan in almost three years.
Legislators for Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change on Thursday caught police by surprise and flouted Zimbabwe’s security laws when they took part in a low-key march in Harare against an ”anti-people Budget” presented to Parliament earlier this week and pending constitutional changes.