The South African Human Rights Commission has subpoenaed Limpopo’s provincial minister of housing, Mahwene Semenya, and Lepelle Nkumpi’s municipal manager over the eviction in May of more than 200 families from Lebowakgomo. It is alleged the families were not given adequate sewage and water facilities at their new homes.
The third assembly of African Union heads of state and government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, next week will have to pay serious attention to providing funds to enable the AU to function as it should, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday in his weekly online newsletter, ANC Today.
Thousands of doctors were stripped of their powers to issue drugs when a Pretoria judge dismissed a constitutional challenge on Friday to regulations obliging them to acquire special dispensing licences. The regulations came into effect with the Pretoria High Court’s dismissal of the bid.
Court rules on dispensing doctors
Doctors may appeal ruling
Thursday July 1 should have been the day that Kenya woke up to a new Constitution that set the country on a path of improved governance and development. But yet again, the government has failed to deliver this document. President Mwai Kibaki first promised that a new Constitution would be in hand by the end of his first 100 days in office.
A car bomb detonated by remote control killed three people and injured 24 others in an attack that apparently targeted the convoy of the governor of an eastern Turkish province, officials said. Governor Hikmet Tan was not injured in the blast but his car was heavily damaged.
The board of the Nasdaq-listed and United States-headquartered UTi Worldwide Inc has approved a proposal of a transaction that will earn the company’s South African operations black economic empowerment (BEE) credentials, the company announced on Friday.
London’s Westminster Council has thrown out a proposal to erect a statue of Nelson Mandela on Trafalgar Square, saying the 3m would be more appropriately placed outside the nearby South Africa House. So many e-mails were sent to the committee in support of the proposal that the council’s computer system crashed.
The wife of Malan Moyo, one of the South Africans among the 70 suspected mercenaries being detained in Zimbabwe, died in Phalaborwa on Wednesday, a KwaZulu-Natal radio station reported on Friday. Moyo’s daughter said that they have been battling to get word of her mother’s death to her father.
Medical doctors will consider appealing against the Pretoria High Court’s dismissal on Friday of their constitutional challenge to regulations obliging them to acquire special licences to dispense medicines. Should an appeal be pursued, the process could be initiated as soon as next Monday.
"Leaders come and go, but there will always be workers’ unions." This is the philosophical view that Elder Linus Ukamba, senior assistant general secretary of the Nigerian Labour Congress, has adopted towards plans by President Olusegun Obasanjo to dismantle the union federation.