The Gauteng African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday said it had not yet started discussing names of candidates for ANC national leadership positions. ANC provincial spokesperson Ignatius Jacobs said provincial leadership had decided earlier this year to ”focus on the principles of leadership and not on any names”.
Infighting has clouded an African National Congress (ANC) disciplinary inquiry into the conduct of one of its most senior councillors in the Msunduzi (Pietermaritzburg) municipality, Themba Zungu, media reports said on Tuesday. Zungu is the head of the city’s corporate strategic planning committee.
In June 2002 the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, an African Union body, undertook a fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe. The mission made a number of findings, conclusions and recommendations dealing with national reconciliation, democracy and human rights.
Manchester United faces were wreathed in smiles as they finished the Premier League season at Old Trafford just as they had hoped — as champions. Crowned the previous weekend and treated to a guard of honour by deposed champions Chelsea in midweek, United could afford to lose 1-0 to West Ham United on Sunday.
Business tycoon Tokyo Sexwale said he would ”consider” nomination for the African National Congress presidency at the party’s December conference should he be asked to stand. In January when the Sunday Times reported of Sexwale being approached to run for presidency he dismissed the reports as ”kite-flying”.
It was perhaps the second glass of wine that did it. That, or the dessert of millefeuille aux poires. Or it could have been the blanquette, the bourguignon, or whatever Le Firmament in the Rue 4 Septembre in Paris’s second arrondissement was offering as the day’s special.
A reality for many South Africans is taking potentially dangerous public transport, with most travelling without any life insurance. Metropolitan Life now uses cellphone technology to bring insurance to those who had little access to it before. Just R10, coming off your phone’s airtime, gives you instant life insurance for six days.
Zimbabwe welcomed British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s resignation on Thursday, describing his departure as ”good riddance”. Blair was showered with praise and brickbats on Thursday as he announced his 10 years in power would end on June 27, but even his opponents conceded he is a ”formidable” politician.
Media reports about chronic ambulance shortages in the Eastern Cape are a ”gross exaggeration”, the Eastern Cape health department said on Thursday. ”The situation is not out of hand,” said spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo. A national targeted norm of one ambulance for every 10Â 000 residents by 2010 had been set by the national committee on emergency services, he said.
French utility back Thomas Castaignede is to retire after the World Cup in October. Currently playing with London side Saracens in the English first division, the 32-year-old Castaignede said he had taken the decision to hang up his boots a year ago, but had held off making an announcement.