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/ 27 October 2006
Shares in media and entertainment group Johnnic Communications jumped more than 11% to an all- time high on the JSE on Friday after news that the group had received an offer to dispose of its stake in M-Net and Supersport which it was
reviewing.
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/ 27 October 2006
Officials interviewed by Zimbabwe’s National Economic Conduct Inspectorate (Neci) over the alleged looting by senior politicians at the state-owned steel-making enterprise Zisco, have threatened to spill the beans. Zisco employees said this week that they were ready to reveal the names of top government officials allegedly involved in pillaging the firm.
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/ 27 October 2006
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille met Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi on Friday for a second round of discussions on the African National Congress’s plan to change the city’s form of government. The two met last week, with Western Cape provincial minister of local government and housing Richard Dyantyi present.
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/ 27 October 2006
South Africa’s opposition parties, which kowtow to the ruling party, have only themselves to blame ”if the deadening hand of a de facto one-party state threatens” to encircle the country, says official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon. In his regular Friday online column, SA Today, the DA leader Leon slammed Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats.
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/ 27 October 2006
When Happiness Tshabalala burst into the ministry of transport with a basket of flowers on her arm and began hurling handfuls of rose petals over cubicle walls, her colleagues knew better than to ask. The fervour with which she celebrated national days of awareness was matched only by her inability to understand their general thrust.
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/ 27 October 2006
Israel may soon use ”smart” bombs on the narrow border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip to destroy tunnels used to smuggle weapons into the Palestinian territory, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday. Maariv said weapons would be used to penetrate deep underground in the hope of destroying the tunnel network that Israel says riddles the narrow border area.
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/ 27 October 2006
South Africa’s Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was discharged from the Johannesburg General Hospital on Friday, her office said in a statement. The minister — who received treatment for a lung infection — said in the statement: "I am very glad that I have been discharged today [Friday] after being in the hospital for the past three weeks.
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/ 27 October 2006
Media and entertainment group Johnnic Communications on Friday confirmed that it has received an offer for the disposal of its shareholding in M-Net and SuperSport, which the board is currently reviewing — news which saw the group’s share price jump to an all-time high.
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/ 27 October 2006
A judge in Malawi adjourned to November 13 a hearing into an application by child rights groups trying to block the adoption of a Malawian boy by pop star Madonna. Yohane Banda, father of one-year-old David, went to the court in Lilongwe, saying his presence was a symbolic protest against the legal moves to halt the adoption.
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/ 27 October 2006
Renaming South Africa’s main airport after a liberator like late African National Congress president OR Tambo keeps the country’s memories alive, said President Thabo Mbeki on Friday. ”This renaming ceremony is about our memory of ourselves,” said Mbeki. ”If we do not know who we have been, we will not know who we will be.”