President Robert Mugabe’s government plans to ban international human rights groups from Zimbabwe and cut off overseas funding to local organisations promoting rights, according to a draft Bill obtained by the AFP news agency on Friday.
The Tshwane University of Technology has obtained a court interdict barring students from its GaRankuwa campus, where they caused hundreds of thousands of rands’ damage on Thursday. The interdict was obtained in an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday night, a university spokesperson said.
Last Saturday The Guardian reported that a Mr Moammar Gadaffi of Tripoli had expressed an interest in buying an English football team, specifically Crystal Palace. By Monday, as both the club and his aides denied the rumours, he had subsided into a deep gloom.
Police began another day of intensive investigations on Friday into the kidnap and murder of Johannesburg student Leigh Matthews, but were yet to make an arrest. Matthews was kidnapped two weeks ago, a day after her 21st birthday, and, in spite of her father meeting ransom demands, she was found dead in a veld south of Johannesburg on Wednesday afternoon.
The strong rand has had a severe impact on a number of De Beers’s South African mines, MD Gary Ralfe said on Friday. Ralfe said mines affected include the Koffiefontein and Kimberly underground mines, the Cullinan mine, the Oaks Mine in Limpopo and its west coast marine and alluvial mines.
Companies are focusing too much on changing the colour of their shareholders and not enough on broadening the base of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), warn business analysts. Of the 10 biggest BEE deals over the past two years only five have made provision to give management and employee stakes in the form of employee ownership trusts, says rating agency Empowerdex.
Some of the lesser martial arts conjure up images of sterile white suits; of politeness and Zen garden sensibility. The world of kung-fu is about Buddha figurines with red lips, licentious villains, Bruce Lee’s abs and crimes of passion. But whereas cinema buffs and trendy types are reaching for their elasticated black slippers, there are real, dedicated kung-fu disciples in the world — including South Africa.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was flying high in noon trade on Friday, fuelled by the rand, which was sharply weaker against major currencies. Strength was seen across the board, with advancers outpacing decliners on the all-share index by about two to one and on the Top 40 index by six to one.
Johannesburg police confirmed on Friday that kidnapped student Leigh Matthews was shot dead, a spokesperson said on Friday. "The preliminary autopsy report said that she died as a result of gunshot wounds to her body," Inspector Amanda Roestoff said. She would not elaborate on where or how many times.
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The Inkatha Freedom Party is to launch a rejuvenation process at its annual conference in Ulundi by strengthening the position of party secretary general.
Party leaders have their backs against the wall after a disastrous performance in the April elections, when the IFP lost control of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government and suffered a further decline in national support.