Various political parties entered the fray on Tuesday over leaked information on the Scorpions’s probe into Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s alleged involvement in the multi-billion rand arms deal.
Mbeki says he will not interfere
The South African cabinet has emerged from a policy review meeting to declare that indications were that the economic slowdown in the country was starting to reverse.
A US congressional staff delegation, led by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, would visit South Africa in the next month to focus on HIV/Aids, US ambassador to South Africa Cameron R Hume said in Durban on Tuesday.
South African President Thabo Mbeki told journalists on Tuesday that he would not interfere with the Scorpion case being investigated against his deputy Jacob Zuma for alleged involvement in arms deal corruption.
A British museum on Tuesday returned four Australian Aboriginal skulls collected 100 years ago to representatives of the communities from which they came.
Halfway through one of the Western Cape’s driest winters for decades, leading scientists and experts are set to gather in Cape Town to exchange ideas on the impact invasive alien plants are having on South Africa’s water resources.
The United Nations on Tuesday launched a 2003/04 regional consolidated appeal for southern Africa to provide life-saving assistance for 6,5-million people severely weakened by consecutive failed harvests, extreme poverty and HIV/Aids.
Investors, both foreign and local, should take the risk of investing in South Africa in a bid to build a ”decent” society out of the ruins of apartheid, SA Institute of Race Relations chief executive Johan Kane-Berman said in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Scorpions investigators met Durban businessman Schabir Shaik on Tuesday morning regarding his alleged involvement in a reported R500 000 bribe from a French arms firm.
South African National Parks should follow the lead of South Africa’s former High Commissioner to London, Cheryl Carolus, when deciding on the future of Paul Kruger’s statue in the Kruger National Park, says the Democratic Alliance.