Cecilia Sarkozy wears Prada, not the more presidentially correct Chanel, and claims to be more comfortable in a pair of combat trousers. Her best friend is Rachida Dati, a Moroccan bricklayer’s daughter who has just been appointed France’s Minister of Justice.
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe will receive a new disciplinary hearing for alleged sexual misconduct after the previous process was found to have been procedurally flawed, the party said on Saturday. In December, Goniwe was found guilty of bringing the organisation into disrepute after allegations that he sexually harassed a woman.
South African rugby this week found itself once again dancing to the strains of a political orchestra
Thousands of African National Congress (ANC) demonstrators gathered at the civic centre in Cape Town on Wednesday to protest against the Democratic Alliance-led (DA) city council. ”March against DA council’s high rates, service cut-offs, pink letters and evictions,” read a pamphlet distributed to the protesters.
A long-awaited report into an incident where President Thabo Mbeki was heckled, allegedly by Jacob Zuma supporters, at last year’s reburial of former African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Moses Mabhida has been sent to the party’s secretary general, Kgalema Motlanthe.
A newborn baby suffocated in its mother’s amniotic sac after she waited five hours for an ambulance to arrive, the Herald Online reported on Wednesday. Thobeka Makanjwa was admitted to hospital after her baby died on Monday morning. The ambulance’s late arrival has outraged the community.
Nicolas Sarkozy succeeded Jacques Chirac as French president on Wednesday in a simple ceremony, promising to revitalise France and restore national pride. Sarkozy was inaugurated under the chandeliers of the Elysee Palace, which will be his home for the next five years, shortly after his predecessor drove off into retirement.
Despite African National Congress (ANC) comments to the contrary, businessman Tokyo Sexwale has confirmed that he is being lobbied for the post of party president, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Tuesday. Lobbying would be followed by nominations and Sexwale said he would want to know why he was wanted.
An al-Qaeda front group in Europe threatened on Tuesday to launch bloody attacks in France in response to the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as president. ”As you have chosen the crusader and Zionist Sarkozy as a leader … we in the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades warn you that the coming days will see a bloody jihadist campaign,” the group’s ”Europe division” said.
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Claims of a plot to assassinate African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma should be treated seriously, the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) said on Wednesday. ”We call on the police and other relevant law-enforcement agencies to do everything in their power to get to the source of this matter,” ANCYL president Fikile Mbalula said.