Convicted of aspiring to overthrow the government, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on Robben Island, sacked from Parliament by Mbeki and accused of corruption while in office — we take a look at the key events in Jacob Zuma’s chequered past.
Over 600 children were raped in two years by previously convicted rapists, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. ”In 2002, 277 children were raped by persons previously convicted of rape, while in 2003 this figure has increased by 15% to 320, said DA member of Parliament Mike Waters.
The Pension Funds Adjudicator recently ruled on three types of cases with regards to retirement annuities . The first relates to the value of paid-up policies, which currently involves six separate cases. One that made headlines was the Da Sousa case against Liberty Life’s Lifestyle retirement annuity fund where, after fees, the paid up value fell from R37 983 to R5 439.
A recent British Equal Opportunities Commission survey found that four out of five working men would be happy to swap their jobs for the role of main child carer. Fair enough, and clearly a step in the right direction, but — and I hate to break the news, guys — there’s a catch, and it’s halo shaped.
”It’s a sad, sad story,” said the waiter from Pekoe View, a restaurant and curio shop overlooking Sapekoe Tea Estates, South Africa’s largest tea producer, which closed in December last year. He pointed to the slopes below where hundreds of acres of tea bushes have been left to grow wild and woolly. ”We used to get three or four busloads of visitors a week, now we get only a few people a month.”
”People who don’t know me see this stylishly dressed young woman driving a nice car, and they think, ”Isn’t she lucky? She has a rich man as a lover to give her things”’, says Angela Shabalala as she manoeuvres her blue BMW sedan on to a highway leading to the Swazi capital, Mbabane. In fact, the 27-year-old bank employee used her own salary to buy the car, as well as her dresses and chic hairstyle.
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The South African Local Government Association has made a ”certain improvement” to its previous wage offer to striking municipal workers, their union said on Tuesday. The nationwide municipal workers’ strike will continue while the South African Municipal Workers’ Union considers the offer.
The pole-vaulting competition at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki was disrupted on Tuesday when a Finnish vaulter’s crash damaged the measuring equipment. When the event restarted, using a second pit where the equipment was intact, gusty winds hampered the vaulters’ efforts.
Ethiopia’s ruling party has won an absolute majority in Parliament in disputed May elections, according to final results released on Tuesday. When combined with victories by allied parties, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front will control 318 seats in the 547-member Parliament.