The Pretoria High Court dismissed on Tuesday a special plea by 13 of the 22 Boeremag treason trialists that the court had no jurisdiction over them. Seventeen of the 22 trialists after the dismissal proceeded to question the integrity of chief prosecutor Paul Fick and asked for his recusal from the case.
President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday hailed Zimbabwe’s military for successfully crushing anti-government protests organised by the opposition early this year, saying the army had helped secure stability.
The Democratic Alliance is to ask for an urgent parliamentary debate on the question of foreign deployment of the SA National Defence Force.
Is the Oppenheimer family trying to encourage transformation without paying for it? While business has welcomed the Brenthust initiative, others are sceptical about its effectiveness.
Liberia’s main rebel group said on Tuesday it wanted to lead the interim government following the resignation and departure of former president Charles Taylor.
Funeral parlours in Paris are turning away new arrivals as the heatwave in the region continues. At least 50 people, and maybe many more, have died in the French capital. Meanwhile, organised crime is being blamed for many of the forest fires raging in Italy.
Europe crippled by prolonged heatwave
Given the expectation of sharply declining inflation in 2003, real house prices are expected to rise for the fourth consecutive year this year. An increase in house prices of more than 18% nominal and 10% real is forecast.
The movement of goods and people ”intra-Africa” is key to the continent’s economic development, and aviation can do more to assist such movement than any other means of transport, says SA Transport Minister Dullah Omar.
Disgusted arts lovers stormed out of the Baxter Theatre in Rondebosch after a chicken had its throat cut and was left to bleed to death on stage. The chicken was killed on Saturday, minutes before the end of the closing night of the run of the play iMumbo Jumbo.
The government denied on Tuesday that President Thabo Mbeki had ordered the National Intelligence Agency to probe the collapse of a marquee on Women’s Day. The president was on a stage erected for a function at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Saturday when the tent roof caved in.
Woman paralysed in marquee collapse