”The DA is alarmed at the allegations made in the M&G that the ANC funded its 2004 election campaign using millions of rands of taxpayers’ money.”
The ”racist tantrum” thrown by Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy Lulu Xingwana in Parliament will hurt black South Africans as much as whites by discouraging investor confidence in the country, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Friday. He said it is necessary for all to raise their voices against what Xingwana said.
Commuters who suffer through the swelter of summer in the London Underground have been full of ideas about how to cool the trains, but none has managed to present a workable plan, the transport company said on Thursday. The London Underground had offered a £100 000 (R1,1-million) prize for the best plan.
The Ugandan army said on Friday it has killed a senior Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) commander who attended the first-ever direct talks with the government last year, throwing new doubts into halting peace efforts. Mediators and local leaders have been trying to lure the rebels back to peace talks amid a surge in brutal LRA violence.
A Czech truck driver who drove into a ditch was found to have 8g of alcohol in his bloodstream, just a month after he was stopped for drunk driving, authorities said on Thursday. "It is the same man we stopped on April 20 with 4,19g" per liter of blood, said the deputy chief of police in the northern town of Lomnice nad Popelkou.
A group of Australian police dogs will have to be retrained after it was discovered that they were sniffing out talcum powder rather than cocaine during training exercises, police said on Friday. An investigation is being carried out into how baby powder was used rather than the illicit drug, Victoria state police said.
The Cabinet will finalise the roll-out plan of the taxi-recapitalisation process by the end of next month — but the transport minister has promised that the much-delayed scrapping of currently ageing vehicles ”will commence this financial year”. He was speaking in his Budget vote in an extended public committee on Friday.
Philandering communist-party officials in China’s eastern city of Nanjing will have to confess their extramarital affairs in a bid to stop corruption, according to a new regulation published on Friday. The regulation stems from concerns about declining morality among party ranks, and fears about the link between illicit affairs and corruption.
The Johannesburg High Court ruled on Friday that mining company Harmony’s multibillion-rand hostile takeover bid for Gold Fields lapsed on December 18 last year, effectively ending the bid seven months after it started. A Gold Fields spokesperson said the company feels vindicated by the court’s decision.
A South African peacekeeping soldier shot dead a comrade and wounded four others before killing himself in Burundi on Friday, the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) said. ”The reason for the shooting incident is unclear at this stage and the United Nations and the SANDF are investigating the incident,” a statement said.