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
Beleaguered Zimbabwean farmers say war veterans and hunters from South Africa and Botswana are stripping game farms of their wildlife. And even when Zimbabwean authorities arrest alleged perpetrators, political intervention allows them to walk free.
The Pretoria High Court has dismissed a special plea by 13 of the 22 Boeremag treason trialists that the court had no jurisdiction over them.
Two of South Africa’s largest listed retail groups, Pick ‘n Pay and Shoprite, have announced reductions in the prices they are charging consumers for plastic bags.
South Africa’s National Department of Agriculture on Tuesday confirmed a case of foot and mouth disease in the north-eastern part of the country between the Limpopo River and the Kruger National Park.
The former UN inspector hired by the Bush administration to find evidence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction will claim in a report next month that Iraqi forces were ordered to fire chemical shells at invading coalition troops.
The emphasis of the spending trend in next February’s budget is likely to fall on provinces as well as on local authority spending rather than on national departments, a senior South African Treasury official said on Tuesday.
Zambian lawmakers were on Tuesday scheduled to debate an opposition motion aimed at impeaching President Levy Mwanawasa for allegedly violating the constitution.
President Thabo Mbeki’s office and the defence ministry on Monday night said no decision had been made yet to deploy South African peacekeepers to strife-torn Liberia.
A suicide bomber killed at least one Israeli and wounded 10 others at a shopping center near Tel Aviv on Tuesday in the first major bomb attack since Palestinian militants declared a truce six weeks ago, police said.