Zimbabwean Daily News editor, Nqobile Nyathi, was arrested and charged under the Public Order and Security Act (Posa) on Thursday, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) reported on Friday.
Supporters unhappy about corruption and the high life of those in office are being drawn to Patricia de Lille’s party, the Independent Democrats, conveniently abbreviated as ID and inaugurated on Gauteng’s East Rand at the weekend.
The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry this week imposed restrictions on the use of water in Limpopo, after a long spell of drought.
Investment holding group Johnnic Holdings (JNC), whose main remaining interests are in entertainment and the media, is expected to reflect an increase of more than 50% in headline earnings when it reports its results for the year to the end of March on Monday.
The South Africa government has admitted burning its fingers on black empowerment investments made by the Public Investment Commission (PIC) — the investment vehicle for government employee pensions.
Parliamentarians were put on the defensive at public hearings on the Anti-Terrorism Bill this week, as the proposed law was slammed by legal associations, media interest groups, churches, human rights and civil society organisations.
‘We are not going to be branded communist, socialist or capitalist. We are going to be constitutionalists…”
The beleaguered Pan Africanist Congress’s national congress this weekend at Soweto’s Vista University looks set to be every bit as controversial as its postponed predecessor as dismissed members are being lobbied to stand for the party’s top posts.
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal moved to defuse tension between itself and the Inkatha Freedom Party this week by getting senior leader Dumisani Makhaye to withdraw his description in November last year of Premier Lionel
Mtshali as a ”devil”.
The number two of a former Mozambique rebel movement is to form a political party to contest next year’s presidential and parliamentary elections, the ex peace negotiator said on Friday