South Africa’s municipalities were owed R24,3-billion nationally in outstanding service tariffs in September last year, according to figures tabled before Parliament’s provincial and local government portfolio committee on Tuesday.
South Africa’s new electoral systems bill is expected before Cabinet only in June, according to the Department of Home Affairs’ programme for 2003.
Some 2 299 criminal cases against defence force members were brought to trial in court before senior military judges last year, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Tuesday.
The proposed tax amnesty for money illegally stashed offshore has received a warm response, and a ”significant” inflow of funds is expected, the Sars said on Tuesday.
A suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded bus in the northern Israeli city of Haifa today, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens, officials said. The explosion, the first terrorist attack in Israel since January, ripped the roof off a No. 37 bus, strewing wreckage and body parts across the street.
The UN agency for children on Tuesday opened fresh talks with Tamil Tiger rebels on children affected by Sri Lanka’s drawn out ethnic conflict and efforts to demobilise child soldiers, officials said.
Closing arguments are to be heard in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday in the trial of two former policemen accused of taking part in a 1998 dog ”training exercise” using illegal immigrants as bait.
A judge rejected defence arguments that Virginia’s death penalty law is unconstitutional and barred cameras in the courtroom for the trial of teenage sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo.
Trade unions greeted the listing of Telkom on Tuesday with disquiet, amid reports of another round of large-scale jobs cuts at the fixed-line telephone operator.
African nations had long been aggrieved by the targeting of developing countries in the United Nations’ Commission on Human Rights, Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Tuesday.