The American-bred, three-year-old Greys Inn gave the opposition a galloping lesson in the R1,5-million Vodacom Durban July Handicap over 2 200m when he streaked through the field down the home stretch to win with ease. This was the second win in South Africa’s premier race for trainer Mike de Kock and jockey Anthony Delpech.
Militant ruling-party supporters armed with clubs, stones and axes on Friday attacked people at a meeting called by Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, the party said in a statement. Tsvangirai escaped uninjured, but other supporters of his party received ”serious injuries”.
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.
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.
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.
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.