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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma was ”crucified” and tried by the media, the Young Communist League said on Tuesday. The group also said that President Thabo Mbeki’s decision to sack his deputy, infringed Zuma’s constitutional rights.
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ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said the ANC reaffirmed that the Deputy President and the entire leadership of the Alliance accepted and supported the decision of the president, negating fears that Mbeki’s decision to sack former deputy president Jacob Zuma had caused rifts within the Alliance.
A group of gun owners and gun shop owners are demanding that police grant them firearm licences in a memorandum handed to the office of Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa on Tuesday. The statement read that black gun owners were ”sick and tired of the lies” from Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.
The Ugandan army said on Tuesday that it had killed at least 19 rebels from the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in the past two days in various parts of the country’s war-ravaged northern area. Several of the fighters drowned while attempting to escape from military patrols by jumping into a river in Gulu district.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Council said on Tuesday that police had arrested two of its investigators probing alleged abuses by authorities during a police crackdown on post-election violence. The arrests took place shortly after more than 3Â 000 opposition members had been rounded up by police.
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President Thabo Mbeki’s sacking on Tuesday of his deputy, Jacob Zuma, has been widely lauded but also criticised, while Zuma himself has accepted his fate.
Four white Waterkloof youths are spending the lunch hour behind bars after being convicted in the Pretoria Regional Court on Tuesday of murdering a black man and assaulting another in December 2001. They face a minimum sentence of life imprisonment for committing a murder with common purpose.
More than a million Americans were infected with HIV/Aids at the end of 2003, with black, homosexual and bisexual men making up the largest group among them, says a government statistics report made public on Monday. African-Americans made up about 47% of this group, whites 34%, and Hispanics 17%.
A 14-year-old boy has died after apparently being asphyxiated by fumes from a brazier at an initiation school in Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape health department said on Tuesday. The police have opened an inquest docket, and a post-mortem will be conducted to establish the exact cause of his death.
A raucous welcome greeted Michael Jackson as he returned to his Neverland Ranch after being acquitted on all counts in his child molestation trial — a victory that triggered jubilation among the pop star’s fans and embarrassment for the district attorney’s office. ”All of us here and millions around the world love and support you,” proclaimed a banner.