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/ 28 September 2007
South Africa’s newly licensed pay-TV operators are going to find themselves playing catch up in the sporting arena, because MultiChoice has all but taken them out of the game. Sport equals big money and with three pay-TV broadcasters set to enter the market, the stakes are going to get a lot higher.
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/ 25 September 2007
South Africa is placed fifth on the latest Mo Ibrahim Foundation Index of African Governance with a score of 71,2 while top-ranking Mauritius scored 86,2. The index rated the performance of 48 nations against a series of criteria including security, human rights, economic stability, just laws, free elections, corruption, infrastructure, poverty and health.
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/ 25 September 2007
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South Africa centre Francois Steyn has been cited for allegedly biting an opponent during Saturday’s World Cup Pool A match against Tonga in Lens, tournament organisers said on Monday. ”Francois Steyn has been cited in connection with an allegation of biting involving the Tonga wing Joseph Vaka,” organisers said in a statement.
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/ 25 September 2007
Asked in Tehran earlier this year about the possibility of a United States military strike on Iran, a senior official laughed. "Are you serious?" he asked. "They will never attack us. That would be madness." His amusement was genuine — and chilling. Ignorance and complacency about US motivations and intentions abound in equal measure in the land of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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/ 24 September 2007
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in Gauteng has nominated Gauteng finance minister Paul Mashatile for provincial chairperson, the league said on Monday. At an extended meeting of its provincial executive committee, the ANCYL agreed on a set of broad characteristics for the collective leadership.
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/ 21 September 2007
The ANC leadership in the North West has, as expected, nominated President Thabo Mbeki to continue for another term as party president. Although the formal nomination process starts only in October, the provincial executive committee has released a list of its top six preferences to its regions and branches for discussion.
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/ 21 September 2007
The trial of Swiss design engineer Daniel Geiges, who was allegedly part of an international nuclear smuggling ring, was postponed on Friday because he is too ill to stand trial. The court was told that Geiges (69) had been diagnosed with cancer of the rectum and was undergoing ”severe treatment”.
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/ 20 September 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) on Thursday called on its members to ”ignore the insulting decision” taken by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) to make recommendations for the election of the ruling party’s national leadership.
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/ 20 September 2007
United States Federal Reserve Chairperson Ben Bernanke told Congress on Thursday that the credit crisis has created ”significant market stress” and offered fresh assurances that regulators will take steps to curb fallout related to the mortgage mess.
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/ 20 September 2007
Britain will call on the European Union to extend sanctions against members of Zimbabwe’s ruling elite as the country’s humanitarian crisis plumbs new depths, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday. He urged the international community to do everything it can to relieve human suffering in Zimbabwe.