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/ 11 February 2005
There was a carnival atmosphere in the dusty streets of Nieu-Bethesda’s township, Pienaarsig, this week as residents celebrated the removal of the town’s chief administrative officer. The announcement that Leonie Fouché would be transferred to a post in Graaff-Reinet was made by Camdeboo mayor Daantjie Japhta in Piernaarsig’s packed community hall. It
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/ 11 February 2005
The appointment of a top Department of Health official as acting registrar of the Medicines Control Council (MCC) has raised alarm about a potential conflict of interest. Humphrey Zokufa, a chief director whose tasks included the implementation of the new medicine pricing regulations, has been named temporarily to fill the post vacated by Precious Matsoso.
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/ 11 February 2005
United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been barred from having sex with locals after reports of sexual abuse of girls as young as 13, the UN announced. ”We cannot tolerate even one instance of a UN peacekeeper victimising the most vulnerable among us,” UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said.
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/ 11 February 2005
Eastern Cape minister of agriculture Max Mamase resigned last Tuesday as a high-level investigation into a dodgy R16-million empowerment deal bankrolled by his department closed in on him. Mamase announced his resignation on the same day that a list of questions about his involvement in two dubious business deals arrived at his office from the joint anti-corruption task team (Jactt).
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/ 11 February 2005
The African National Congress has reversed its policy on disclosing party donors in the wake of a landmark legal challenge to force political parties to divulge their private funders. The court case, which was launched by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa on Thursday, has also brought the ANC and the Democratic Alliance together on their key defence arguments.
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/ 11 February 2005
The Johannesburg Metro Council has quietly ditched its multimillion-rand contract with Wozani Security, better known as the ”Red Ants”, after alleging that the security company obtained the contract through corruption and black empowerment fronting.
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/ 11 February 2005
Former champion Amelie Mauresmo, the second seed, ousted fellow Frenchwoman Mary Pierce to advance to the quarterfinals of the 000 Paris Indoor Open on Thursday. Mauresmo, the 2001 champion, won 6-4, 6-3 in a tight second-round match against the unseeded Pierce, the 1998 winner.
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/ 11 February 2005
Former South Africa skipper Corne Krige has announced he will retire from rugby at the end of the season after his contract with English side Northampton is finished. Krige said he will then return home to Cape Town with his wife, Justine, and their new baby, Sophia. Krige arrived at Northampton just before the start of this season.
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/ 11 February 2005
Phil Mickelson birdied six of the first eight holes and broke the Spyglass Hill course record on Thursday with a 10-under 62 that gave him a three-shot lead in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. He took advantage of pristine conditions on the Monterey Peninsula, with brilliant blue skies and only a trace of wind.
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/ 11 February 2005
In the words of Bobby Kennedy, there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned race riot. No sir, said Bobby one day while we were dynamiting for trout in the Oswald Pirow dam, you can’t beat watching tolerance-mongering New Englanders give in to the overwhelming urge to leave tyre-iron-shaped depressions in ‘fros, or iron-willed Nation of Islam acolytes renounce their pacifism just long enough to perform avante garde rhinoplasties on smug beaky Caucasian noses with baseball bats.