Ajax Cape Town enjoyed a 3-2 win over Black Leopards in an intense Premier Soccer League match at Thohoyandou Stadium on Saturday. The win for the Capetoninans, however, was not good enough to ensure they remained in the championships battle after Kaiser Chiefs scooped the title by beating Moroka Swallows 2-0 at Johannesburg Stadium.
Finally, Kaizer Chiefs have been crowned the Castle Premiership champions. The Glamour Boys from Phefeni achieved the feat after registering a hard fought 2-0 victory over Moroka Swallows. The league title has eluded AmaKhosi for the past 12 years and the victory has booked them a place in the African Champions League.
Two days before ousted Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide and his family are to leave for temporary asylum in South Africa, it is still unclear who will pay the plane fare. Reports on Friday said the Jamaican and South African governments are arguing over who would pay to fly Aristide, his wife Mildred and their security.
South African National Parks (SANParks) has refused to place a moratorium on the shooting of Table Mountain’s tahrs, the National Council of SPCAs said on Friday. In a statement issued after a meeting with SANParks on Friday, the NSPCA said however, it had been agreed that NSPCA representatives would observe the culling.
Malaysian police has made a public appeal for help to find a senior South African diplomat who has been reported missing in that country. Deputy High Commissioner Nicky Scholtz (54) was last seen on Sunday night in his hotel room in Kuala Lumpur. Police refused to rule out the possibility he had been kidnapped.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has welcomed the public protector’s report on the complaint he lodged against public prosecutions director Bulelani Ngcuka, saying he feels ”vindicated”. The report said it was ”unfair and improper” to say there was a prima facie corruption case against Zuma but that he would not be prosecuted.
Namibia’s ruling party Swapo began the most important meetings in its history to pick a successor to President Sam Nujoma, who has been the dominant political figure in the southern African country for five decades. The candidate chosen by the congress will most likely become the country’s next president.
The UK’s Northern Ireland minister will be in the country next week to see what can be learned from South Africa’s process of reconciliation. The five-day visit will include meetings with those involved in the constitutional negotiations in the early 90’s, and with former TRC commissioners.
The example of the United Kingdom suggests the South African construction sector could improve its performance, says Minister of Public Works Stella Sigcau. She was meeting her UK counterpart, Nigel Griffiths, at the House of Commons on the first leg of her two-country tour which will end in China.
Summary executions, torture and mortar bombs exploded in the mouths of captured fighters were among the horrors described to a Zimbabwe court that officially declared dead 47 soldiers who disappeared in Congo’s savage five-year war.