The pumping of fuel from the Sealand Express, which ran aground earlier this week in the Cape, is going well, the joint operations committee set up to deal with the stranding has announced.
If Idi Amin had wanted to time his death in order to give an erect finger to what we are assured is a looming African renaissance, he couldn’t have done it better. There are some who say such a renaissance is already upon us, but in a cruelly mutated anatomy.
Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) moved to close, once and for all, its chapter on the controversial multibillion-rand arms deal — and to reaffirm its own integrity. It will table a resolution in the National Assembly insisting on Auditor General Shauket Fakie’s integrity — and officially dismissing media reports that the final arms report was edited.
The prosecution’s plans to call its first witness in the Boeremag treason trial next week were thwarted on Friday when defence lawyers said they would bring yet more pre-trial applications.
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The Mail & Guardian walked away with two industry awards this week, proving once more that it’s Africa’s best read.
Battle lines have been drawn between Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) veteran Thandi Modise and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as the African National Congress Women’s League prepares for a future without Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
Two powerful interest groups at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) say they are determined that vice-chancellor Cooper should be ousted. But the groups are also at war with each other in the run-up to the UDW’s merger with the University of Natal.
The emergence of a black bourgeoisie in South Africa is compromising the national democratic movement, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) has charged. And there are ”forces” within the [democratic] movement not supportive of the interests of the working class.
Dr Allan Boesak has questioned Justice Minister Penuell Maduna’s motives for revealing that he has recommended the convicted cleric not receive a presidential pardon.
Visiting US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist suggested on Thursday South Africa had to take the scope of the Aids pandemic sweeping the country more seriously.