The federal executive of the New National Party, which ruled South Africa in the form of the apartheid National Party from 1948 to 1994, met in Johannesburg on Monday afternoon and took the unanimous decision to disband. The party opted to fall under the umbrella of the ruling African National Congress shortly after the national election in April last year.
Nelson Chisale was dead before he was thrown to lions near Hoedspruit in January last year, a Bloemfontein pathologist told the Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Dr Leon Wagner was testifying in defence of Mark Scott-Crossley (37), who is on trial for Chisale’s murder with Simon Mathebula (43). Both have pleaded not guilty of the killing.
It was a night unlike any other in the glorified shopping centre that is the Kodak theatre, the purpose-built home for the Oscars in the past few years. A garish rash of white concrete and pseudo marble, it is the sort of building that would sit happily in Las Vegas but stands out from the grime and sleaze of Hollywood Boulevard, somewhere on the wrong side of Beverly Hills.
French detectives are searching for the missing 10th Earl of Shaftesbury along the network of roads between France and Germany after his estranged wife allegedly revealed that his body had been dumped by her fleeing brother. The earl, 66, was last seen at the Noga Hilton in Nice in early November last year.
The government’s new draft fisheries policy, released for public comment on Tuesday ahead of the allocation of long-term quotas later this year, will see emerging small and medium enterprises gaining a greater share of South Africa’s fish stocks at the expense of the industry’s big players.
Workers will picket overnight at Zimbabwe border posts the day before elections take place in that country, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday. The protests on March 30 will be the culmination of other blockades and demonstrations organised by Cosatu throughout March.
FirstRand CEO Laurie Dippenaar believes the financial services group is more focused after a recent brand alignment, and that, barring any "unforeseen external shocks", it is also well positioned to achieve its stated objective of 10% real growth. FirstRand lifted attributable profits by a whopping 23% to R2,8-billion for the six months ended December.
The days when almost everyone in Romania was a millionaire are numbered, starting on Tuesday when sceptical Romanians were greeted with old and new prices as the country takes the first steps to introducing the ”heavy leu”. The 22-month process will see four zeros zapped from the national currency, weakened after 15 years of high inflation.
Michael Jackson abused a 13-year-old boy who suffered from cancer and exposed the teenager to ”strange sexual behaviour” during visits to his Neverland ranch. The star was then involved in a desperate bid to salvage his career from claims that threatened to destroy him, a jury heard on Monday.
Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett’s GlobalFlyer plane took off into the clear Kansas skies on Tuesday, setting in motion a world record bid described by his backer and friend Richard Branson as the last great aviation record — flying nonstop and solo around the world.