South African President Thabo Mbeki has ruled out a commission of inquiry into allegations that Deputy President Jacob Zuma took a bribe in connection with the multi-billion rand arms deal.
Police drew up a photofit picture yesterday of the man they call the playing card killer, a gunman who they suspect has twice walked up to strangers in Madrid and shot them at point-blank range.
A state witness in the treason trial of Zimbabwe’s opposition leader testified on Tuesday a tape recorder hidden in her purse malfunctioned during a key portion of a London meeting about what she said was a plot to kill President Robert Mugabe.
The Pretoria Regional Court will hand down judgement next Wednesday in the bail application of Johan ”Lets” Pretorius who was arrested in September last year for his alleged role in a right-wing plot to overthrow the government.
The newborn baby boy who was found in a black plastic bag outside a panel beating premises in Marabastad on Saturday morning has died, Pretoria police said on Tuesday.
South African trade union the National Union of Mine workers on Tuesday spoke out against the government’s move to sell off 30% of state-run electricity utility Eskom with 10% earmarked for empowerment interests.
The Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund on Tuesday denied having received a donation from Swiss company Nestle or that it even had an association or a relationship with the company.
A Cape High Court judge late on Tuesday night ordered that the new Immigration Act, the bulk of which was supposed to come into force at midnight, should be put on hold.
A deal which would see Libya accept responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and pay compensation to the families of those who died appeared imminent last night.
Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon’s contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney.