Limpopo is the country’s safest province, the South African Institute of Race Relations said on Tuesday. It had the lowest rate of murders, rapes and armed robberies, according to a study based on police statistics released in Polokwane. Limpopo is also one of South Africa’s poorest provinces with a very high rate of unemployment.
Winter had one last blast before making way for spring as snow fell in parts of South Africa on Tuesday. Snow had fallen near the Hex River in the Western Cape, in Sutherland in the Northern Cape, near Tiffendell in the Eastern Cape and in parts of Lesotho and the Drakensberg, according to South African Weather Service forecaster Elke Brouwers.
The United Nations envoy to Somalia on Tuesday went to Mogadishu in a bid to rejuvenate peace talks that have been clouded by a deadly insurgency. Francois Lonseny Fall told more than 1Â 000 delegates at a peace conference there was international backing for the new initiative to restore stability to Somalia, which has been torn apart by clan and religious warfare.
South Africa have secured the services of former Australia coach Eddie Jones as their technical advisor for the World Cup finals, South Africa Rugby confirmed on Tuesday. ”Eddie brings with him a wealth of international experience and knowledge,” said SA Rugby’s manager of national teams, Andy Marinos.
A United States web firm is preparing to launch an ambitious internet search
engine that it hopes will eventually track down the names of the world’s six billion people. Spock.com says it has already indexed 100-million people and is adding a million names per day on the invitation-only, beta version of its website
It is only logical that when a ruling party elects its own leadership it prefers also to be electing the leadership of the country, the Gauteng African National Congress (ANC) said on Tuesday. ANC provincial secretary David Makhura was speaking at a press conference after the provincial executive committee’s meeting earlier this month.
Zimbabwe’s tortuous economy has been causing headaches for companies listed on the local stock exchange, it emerged on Tuesday, particularly on the question of how one calculates inflation-adjusted half-year results if no one knows what the true figure is. The state-run Central Statistical Office stopped releasing official inflation data three months ago.
Convicted child killer Theunis Olivier is a serial liar who deserves no mercy, the father of murdered six-year-old Steven Siebert said on Tuesday. Briefing the media at the Cape High Court, Thomas Siebert said Olivier had told a lot of lies regarding the events leading to Steven’s death.
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A bag of papers belonging to African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma which was found outside a Durban flat has been sent for forensic testing. Police spokesperson Phindile Radebe said the bag was found outside a Durban beachfront flat that had been broken into early on Monday morning.
One of Germany’s most prominent Holocaust survivors, Anja Lundholm, whose books recounted the horrors she experienced in a Nazi camp after she was allegedly denounced by her own father, has died aged 89, her publisher said on August 6. Munich-based publishing house LangenMueller said Lundholm died on August 4 in Frankfurt.