Controversial Johannesburg lawyer Peter Soller would like to sue a judge whom he says defamed him. There’s just one snag: he first must get a colleague of the judge to give him the go-ahead. The disgraced lawyer is claiming that a judgement
made against him is defamatory.
The chairperson of the audit committee of Durban’s eThekwini Metro council is being investigated for allegedly trying to divert R1-million from a council debt settlement into a private trust controlled by him and his family. Mdu Msomi (33) resigned this week after inquiries by the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> about the allegations.
Availability of HIV treatment could shift attitudes about the threat of HIV/Aids in the developing world, potentially resulting in increased risk behaviour and the continued global expansion of the Aids pandemic. This was is according to a report released by the Global HIV-Prevention Working Group.
The duplicity of humans never ceases to amaze me. Look at how all and sundry were willing to take up cudgels for an alien antelope, while they never so much as whimper when their fellow human beings are mocked, abused, exploited and then jailed because they are <i>makwerekwere</i> (aliens). Who said defending the rights of fellow humans is the sole preserve of outfits such as the Roll Back Xenophobia campaign?
By now Springbok coach Jake White will have realised that the best dictators need to know how to compromise. Just one week away from the first Test of the season and three weeks into an exhaustive training camp, White’s side to play Ireland in Bloemfontein next Saturday bears only a passing resemblance to the one pencilled in a month previously.
The road to Egypt and Germany begins in earnest for Bafana Bafana on Saturday when they take on the Cape Verde Islands. The World Cup qualifier against the islanders, ranked 144th in the world, kicks off the national side’s efforts to make it to the 2006 World Cup and African Cup of Nations.
The weekend carnage in Khobar came less than a month after Saudi Arabia vowed to ”strike with an iron fist” against militants who carried out attacks and said it was making every effort to protect foreigners in the kingdom. ”The government is doing all it can to protect all residents,” Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told a news conference. Such assurances have been heard before and will no doubt be heard again.
Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile has scrapped racial quotas for teams, saying they have not helped to accelerate the transformation of sports codes, which are currently not representative of the people of South Africa But national teams will remain lily-white unless selectors and coaches are put under
pressure, writes Rapule Tabane.
Curled in a chair in his hotel suite in Glasgow, the Dalai Lama was asked what he might have said to British Prime Minister Tony Blair had he been invited to Downing Street during his visit to the United Kingdom. Leaning forward, he chuckled: ”Nothing in particular.” Despite the fury of his followers that the prime minister refused a request to meet him, he insisted it made little difference to him whether he got to see Blair or not.
Headline writers called it his endgame. Robert Mugabe was bunkered in his mansion while opponents shut down the country with a general strike dubbed ”the final push”. Soldiers placed steel barrels outside the presidential gates in case of mobs, but there was nothing they could do to protect Zimbabwe’s leader from a crumbling economy.