President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace will splash out close to R3-million on a 10th wedding anniversary party at their rural home in Kutama, about 60km west of Harare. Several Southern African regional leaders are expected to attend, including best man at the wedding, former Mozambican president Joachim Chissano.
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In the high-stakes nuclear game, will a radioactive waste-management policy be foisted on an unsuspecting public or will ”transparency, consultation and stakeholder participation” be a reality? A draft policy containing those words remains ungazetted while the government looks at prototype pebble-bed nuclear reactors for commercial use.
The president of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, Moss Mashishi, announced on Wednesday that Sascoc has appointed a three-member committee to run the affairs of rugby until the extraordinary meeting of the general council of the South African Rugby Union on June 17.
Anyone who claims vitamins are a cure or treatment for Aids is a charlatan, United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) director Peter Piot said in Johannesburg on Wednesday. ”It’s really unfortunate that there will always be people who try to make money out of the misery and suffering of others,” he said.
The City of Johannesburg will spend about R1,4-billion over the next four years to prepare for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, executive mayor Amos Masondo said on Wednesday in presenting the city’s budget for the 2005/06 financial year. R675-million will go to City Power to upgrade the city’s ageing power network.
Western Province’s Koos Basson has become the fourth South African Rugby Union management committee member to resign on Wednesday. This follows the resignations of fellow members Andre Markgraaff, Mike Stofile and Theunie Lategan.
The Bafana Bafana squad for their crucial 2006 World Cup and African Cup of Nations qualifier match against the Cape Verde Islands was announced on Wednesday. Bafana, who top the group-two log table, will be hoping to maintain their number-one spot against the second-placed Cape Verde Islands.
The foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany met the top Iranian negotiator in Geneva on Wednesday in a final bid to stop Iran pressing ahead with plans to resume its uranium-conversion activities. Iranian negotiators warned that the meeting was heading for deadlock amid plans to reopen a nuclear plant in central Iran.
The urban unrest over services delivery in South African towns shows fault lines that, if exploited, could generate conflict the country does not need, President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. He said there is nothing to suggest South Africa is threatened by the ”centrifugal tensions” that have caused the collapse of other African states.