Magazine publishers Ramsay, Son & Parker have bought 50 percent of <i>Leisure Wheels</i>. The publication joins RS&P’s two other motoring titles CAR, and Wiel (initially announced as <i>La’t Wiel</i>), due to be launched in September.
So we are all supposed to withdraw quietly now and heave huge sighs of relief. The national executive committee of the African National Congress has assured us: there is no leadership tussle; succession is a foreign concept, only applicable to dynasties and inimical to the ANC. ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe apparently does not believe President Thabo Mbeki has usurped reduced him to an administrative clerk.
Three men have been identified as suspects for the murders of politician Robert Smit and his family in Springs 29 years ago, Beeld reported on Thursday. According to unnamed sources in the intelligence community, two of the suspects were part of the apartheid-era security police and the third a member of ”a task team”.
Readers may have learnt by now that the Steve Tshwete municipality in Middelburg, is going to spend R300Â 000 on an inauguration party for its new mayor. What they may not have heard is the compelling defence provided for this expenditure. According to News24, chief whip Mike Masinga said that the ANC councillors ”were unanimous in their decision to spend the money”.
A new plan to address corruption in Kenya has been adopted in the East African country — this as the government continues to be criticised for overseeing widespread graft. The National Anti-Corruption Plan was drawn up by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission, a government body mandated to investigate graft.
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Cabinet on Wednesday confirmed the cut-off date [Wednesday midnight] for minibus taxi-permit conversion applications, but left the door slightly open to latecomers. At a media briefing, government communications head Joel Netshitenzhe said Cabinet had been updated on progress in the implementation of the taxi recapitalisation programme.
SA Rugby has refuted a report that former Springbok captain Francois Pienaar was not welcome to serve as national team manager. The article, which appeared in Sunday’s Rapport newspaper, claimed the story came from a source within the Springbok camp currently taking place in Bloemfontein.
South Africa could face a fuel crisis if workers in the petroleum sector went on strike over a wage dispute, the trade union Solidarity warned on Wednesday. ”If these workers go out on strike, the country could face a fuel crisis that will cause widespread disruption, as it did in 2005,” Solidarity spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans said in a statement.
While it is generally agreed the African continent must be developed, the challenge is in the capacity to do so, President Thabo Mbeki told the World Economic Forum’s summit on Africa on Wednesday. ”Basically our challenge is the capacity to implement what we’ve agreed,” Mbeki said.