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The Inkatha Freedom Party has suspended national organiser and MP Albert Mncwango after he received a prison sentence on Monday for raping his former girlfriend in 2001. The African National Congress welcomed the 10-year jail sentence imposed by the Eshowe Magistrate’s Court.
The mayor, speaker and city manager of the Emthanjeni Municipality in De Aar have been arrested on charges of fraud, Northern Cape police said on Monday. The trio allegedly offered a local businessman a tender on July 2 in exchange for a kickback. The tender involved a municipal house that is to be sold.
United States Treasury Secretary John Snow, trying to bolster confidence on Wall Street and Main Street amid a new warning about possible terrorist strikes, said on Monday in a statement that the country’s financial system continues to operate normally, a testimony to its ”resiliency and strength”.
Government-ordered fee cuts are bankrupting Zimbabwe private schools, once among the region’s best, officials at one non-profit institution said on Monday. The nearly century-old Eaglesvale School, which teaches 1Â 000 students in western Harare, filed for provisional liquidation on Monday.
Mugabe law curbs church and charities
Firefighters searched early on Monday for more victims as they sifted through the rubble of a shopping centre in Paraguay destroyed by a blaze that killed nearly 300 people. Argentine authorities said they would make their hospitals available to blaze victims, and the Argentine air force readied a plane to speed more aid to Paraguay.
Big Ben, the famous clock tower on Britain’s Houses of Parliament, could be surrounded by an electric fence as part of new security measures to shield it from terrorists and publicity-seeking protesters, a report said on Monday. Big Ben is considered a trophy target for terrorists, the Times newspaper said.
Egypt on Monday began airlifting relief aid to millions of Sudanese people in dire need for food, medicine and other basics due to a 17-month conflict in the western Darfur region. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the supplies were donated by the Egyptian Red Crescent with the help of the Defence Ministry.
The government needs to review its immigration policy, including possibly rewriting the Immigration Act, says Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. ”There will be a need in the long term for government to look at a more holistic review of our immigration policy,” she said on Monday.
Eighty-five people from Gamorona village near Vryburg in the North West appeared in court on Monday after being arrested over the weekend for public violence and assault, police said. The villagers called a meeting with a chief on Saturday, accusing a family of stocktheft. They attacked the family, burning their houses to the ground.