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/ 19 November 2006
Being a role model doesn’t sit comfortably with Ntsiki Biyela, who overcame modest beginnings in a poor, rural village to become the country’s first fully fledged African, female winemaker. ”It is a lot of pressure,” the 28-year-old told the media in an interview at her office on the grounds of the Stellekaya winery in the Western Cape.
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/ 19 November 2006
The African Union on Saturday reported a heavy civilian toll after Sudanese forces and allied militia this week conducted raids in the war-ravaged western region of Darfur. The AU Mission in Sudan reported a ”heavy toll on the civilian population”.
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/ 19 November 2006
The African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee on Saturday reaffirmed its confidence in the South African police force and law-enforcement agencies. Every effort should be made to assist the police and law-enforcement agencies, using resources and capacity from all sectors of society, ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said.
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/ 19 November 2006
Iraqis ”don’t have a future” if they give in to the sectarian tensions that are tearing apart their society, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said during a visit to Vietnam on Saturday in one of the starkest warnings on the present violent trajectory of the country. Her comments emerged amid a tranche of bleak prognoses for the region.
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/ 18 November 2006
World Cup-winning prop Phil Vickery came off the bench to spare England from the embarrassment of what would have been a record-breaking eighth straight defeat as they came from behind to beat South Africa 23-21 at Twickenham on Saturday.
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/ 18 November 2006
Jean-Pierre Bemba, the loser of the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Saturday formally contested the outcome of the vote, which gave victory to incumbent Jospeh Kabila. The outcome of the vote was formally challenged by the rapporteur of Bemba’s Union for the Nation coalition, Delly Sessanga, on behalf of the outgoing vice-president.
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/ 18 November 2006
The witnesses and suspects in the Brett Kebble murder case have not disappeared, said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Saturday. ”Our investigators, who have been working on this investigation for several months already, are aware of the whereabouts of all the suspects and potential witnesses in this matter,” said NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi.
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/ 18 November 2006
The African National Congress (ANC) has lost the plot for the future, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Saturday. ”The ANC is so busy tearing itself apart and plundering the public purse and pursuing narrow racist agendas that they have forgotten the people who put them in power,” said DA leader Tony Leon during a Western Cape DA congress.
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/ 18 November 2006
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has shrugged off combative remarks by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, saying the process it is engaged in with the government to change the national strategic plan on Aids will go ahead anyway.
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/ 18 November 2006
Jailed businessman Schabir Shaik is desperately trying to find grounds to challenge his corruption conviction and sentence through the Constitutional Court (Concourt), reported the Weekender on Saturday. Shaik has until November 27 to file a challenge with the Concourt.