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/ 8 November 2003
It would be nice to report that South Africa went home with their heads held high last night. Nice … but dishonest. The truth is, they came up against a below-par New Zealand in the first of the World Cup quarterfinals in Melbourne last night and made nothing of it.
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/ 7 November 2003
The Hefer Commission has released the names of some of the 20 people subpoenaed to testify or provide documents following the resumption of the commission on Wednesday. The list is likely to put the commission on a collision course with those agencies which have, until now, been reluctant to grant the commission access to documents or personnel.
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/ 7 November 2003
"In the private sector they have a slogan: ‘The customer is always right.’ In home affairs we have an unwritten slogan that the customer is always wrong." This was the observation of the new Director General of the Department of Home Affairs, Barry Gilder, who this week ignored the common practice among senior government managers of hiding problems.
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/ 7 November 2003
SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande has taken a side-swipe at President Mbeki in an article in the party’s online publication, <i>Umsebenzi</i>, this week, accusing Mbeki of "avoiding taking the [ruling Tripartite] Alliance for granted", and "gambling with its unity willy-nilly, as some within our ranks are opportunistically tempted to do nowadays".
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/ 7 November 2003
The South African Parliament’s joint standing committee on intelligence has objected to subpoenas being issued to South Africa’s intelligence and security services compelling them to provide classified or sensitive information.
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/ 7 November 2003
Six US soldiers were killed on Friday when a Blackhawk helicopter was ”forced down” outside an American base near the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, US military officials said. ”The total number of people on board was six. All six have died,” said spokesperson Major Josselyn Aberle.
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/ 7 November 2003
CD OF THE WEEK: Mapaputsi: Kleva
We can now safely say we have another kwaito star to speak of. Mapaputsi’s follow-up album Kleva (Ghetto Ruff) will solicit a sigh of relief that, after the runaway success of his debut Izinja, Mapaputsi did not sink like a lead balloon, according to Thebe Mabanga.
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/ 7 November 2003
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s five-nation tour, which began in the island nations of Sao Tome and Principe, will end in South Africa this week. Lula will stay for just a day in South Africa, ending a week-long African tour that has taken him predominantly to Lusophone nations including Angola, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe.
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/ 7 November 2003
Workers from other companies in the aviation sector joined the strike at Airports Company South Africa airports on Friday as the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) sticks to its guns.
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/ 7 November 2003
The Landless People’s Movement still intended to march on the Presidency on Friday to start its ”No Land, No Vote” campaign although permission had been refused, a spokesperson said.