Shyaka Kanuma Presidential adviser Titus Mafolo says he intends suing the state for R3-million after the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court suddenly, and with no explanations, dropped charges against him of fraud, perjury, defeating the ends of justice and contravention of the Commissioner of Oaths Act. Mafolo was arrested earlier this year for what police said were […]
Thebe Mabanga Black Economic Empowerment is on the road to recovery and what is hoped to be a new phase of spreading benefits more equitably with the help of the state, according to BusinessMap Foundation’s review Empowerment 2002: The State Steps In. Measures that the government has taken to aid empowerment include the introduction of […]
As Khoi-San descendants we believe that colonialism and apartheid robbed the indigenous people of their identity, languages and cultural heritages. We need a special mechanism that will empower us to right past wrongs. We have raised a number of important needs: formal recognition by the government; representation in the government in accordance with the developing […]
I do not blame our president for his ”unique” views on HIV/Aids. I put the blame squarely on the shoulders of his advisers, the Cabinet and the national executive committee (NEC). Unfortunately President Thabo Mbeki has chosen to surround himself with sycophants whose only loyalties are to power, position and prestige. How else can anyone […]
Windhoek | Friday APARTHEID-ERA germ warfare expert Wouter Basson, who has been acquitted on 46 charges in South Africa, may still stand trial for atrocities in Namibia, Foreign Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab said on Friday. ”For us the matter will not rest until we see justice done,” he said a day after the acquittal, adding that […]
Pretoria | Friday REACTION to the acquittal of apartheid chemical and biological warfare expert, Dr Wouter Basson, in the Pretoria High Court on Thursday were mixed. The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development refused to comment because the State had asked leave to appeal the judgement. Justice representative Paul Setsetse said that the national director […]
Johannesburg | Sunday ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu has blasted the acquittal of apartheid-era germ warfare expert Wouter Basson, saying most people believed Basson was guilty. Tutu, former Truth and Reonciliation chairman, wrote to the Sunday Times newspaper from the USA, calling the judgement a ”big blow to the credibility of the judicial process”. He said he […]
Cape Town mayor produces hard evidence that controversial German billionaire did not pay his rent.
STUART GRAHAM, Johannesburg | Tuesday THE SA Reserve Bank has accused Deutsche Bank of discrepancies in the bank’s application to conduct an offshore deal with three top South African companies. Assistant general manager in the SARB’s Foreign Exchange Department, Christiaan Grove, told the Johannesburg-based commission investigating the rand’s fall in 2001 that the discrepancies arose […]
Alexandra | Wednesday AN Egyptian university student in Alexandra was killed on Tuesday when police opened fire with rubber-coated bullets at students protesting a visit by US Secretary of State Colin Powell to Cairo, hospital sources said. Mohammed Ali al-Sayyed al-Saaa, a business student at the University of Alexandria, was killed when a rubber-coated bullet […]