Victor Greene has stopped replacing the rear brake light bulbs of his ageing car as youngsters from his working-class suburb in southern Cape Town kept on stealing them to smoke tik, the latest drug being consumed by the city’s youth. ”If they can get it [the light bulb] for free, they can save some rands for tik,” he shrugs.
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There must be no room for corruption or nepotism in municipalities, Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel said on Thursday. ”Nobody’s going to benefit, nobody’s spouse is going to benefit. The rules are going to be clear and we will ensure that the incentives and disincentives are in place,” he said on Thursday.
A South African government spokesperson expressed irritation on Thursday at the so-called bogeyman approach being used to scare African countries into conforming with the West. ”I am really irritated by this ‘kgokgo’ approach,” presidential spokesperson Bheki Khumalo said when approached for comment on a call by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw for African action against Zimbabwe.
It’s make or break time for Jake White’s Springboks when they face France in the series-deciding second Test in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. The result in this Test will determine the outcome of the series and may have massive bearing on the fortunes of the Springboks as they attempt to defend their Tri-Nations crown in the next couple of months.
The Zimbabwean government is mobilising soldiers to build houses for the thousands of people it forced from their homes in an urban clean up campaign that has drawn condemnation at home and abroad, a spokesperson said on Thursday.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has announced that five members of Parliament "involved in the travel investigation" — now known as Travelgate — have resigned from Parliament. They are Ruth Bhengu, Mildred Mpaka, Rhoda Joemat, Pamela Mnandi and Mavis Magazi.
South Africa’s Rugby World Cup squad from 1995 shared the magic of their historic triumph at a 10-Year celebration dinner held at the Sandton Convention Centre on Wednesday. Captain Francois Pienaar and the full squad joined 1 500 prominent personalities and guests at an event aimed at reliving a momentous achievement in South Africa’s history.
The Department of Water Affairs on Wednesday supplied MPs with a timetable showing key dates in their plan to reform the way water is supplied to users in South Africa, a process it hopes to complete by 2013. The plan aims to shift the primary responsibility for provision of water services from national government to more than 200 local and regional water service authorities.
A nurse accused of injecting her stepson with HIV-contaminated blood in January last year will appear in the Mhala Regional court on Thursday, Limpopo police said. Captain Moatshe Ngoepe said the woman — a nurse from Matikwane Hospital near Bushbuckridge — was arrested on January 17, 2004, after the now six-year-old boy told his biological mother she had injected him.