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/ 26 October 2006
This week Finance Minister Trevor Manuel became the king of bling. The mini-budget released this week is replete with showy and insubstantial spending. South Africa is to splurge — on 2010; on the Gautrain; and on a series of sometimes dubious industrial projects. What’s going on?
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/ 26 October 2006
When the transitional federal government (TFG) of Somalia sits down for the next round of peace talks with its Islamist rivals in Khartoum on Monday, the main objective will be to hash out the terms of an arrangement to share power. But much more is at stake. The clouds of regional war are darkening.
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/ 26 October 2006
This week News24.com reported on an SABC story gleaned from the BBC, in which Jacob Zuma promised that he would ”follow former president Nelson Mandela’s example” when it came to fighting corruption in government. And there the manne thought it was current President Thabo Mbeki who was the corruption-buster.
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/ 25 October 2006
The African National Congress Youth (ANCYL) League handed a memorandum of demands to the National Credit Regulator in Johannesburg on Wednesday in a protest against the blacklisting of youth by credit bureaux. ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula handed the memorandum to three officials and said the blacklisting of the youth was unfair to the students and unemployed of the country.
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/ 25 October 2006
Trade union Solidarity on Wednesday called for military style training for cash-in-transit security guards in response to the rising number of heists. ”We’re not saying that they don’t receive good training, but we believe that they don’t receive the type of training required to handle these situations,” union spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans said
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/ 25 October 2006
While details of the government’s planned spending on the 2010 Soccer World Cup met with acclaim in the National Assembly on Wednesday, some other aspects of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s mini-budget drew criticism. Almost R15-billion over the next three years will go to major capital projects around the 2010 event.
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/ 25 October 2006
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has insisted his team can still win this season’s Premiership title despite currently being 11 points behind leaders Manchester United. Gerrard, so often Liverpool’s saviour, was well-policed during United’s victory at Old Trafford on Sunday, which meant the Merseysiders have still to win away from Anfield in the league this season.
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/ 25 October 2006
Four people accused of killing a suspected thief on a farm in South Africa, who died after being tied to a tree and beaten, walked free from court on Wednesday after murder charges were dropped. After a magistrate ordered that charges of murder be downgraded, the four all pleaded guilty to assault and were each fined R10Â 000 .
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/ 25 October 2006
Four gorillas are leaving Pretoria and heading home to Cameroon in time for Christmas. The International Fund for Animal Welfare said the gorillas, known as the Taiping Four, would probably leave for the Limbe Wildlife Centre in Douala, Cameroon, on December 7.