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/ 18 February 2007
The African National Congress was selling ”face time” with Cabinet ministers and government officials in an effort to raise funds, the Sunday Times reported. The scheme already had 2Â 000 paid-up members and promised businesses knowledge of ”upcoming government decisions”.
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/ 16 February 2007
The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) has chosen an interim leadership core in an effort to rebuild the organisation and prepare for a properly constituted national conference in September. The organisation made the announcement at a media briefing in Johannesburg on Friday.
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/ 16 February 2007
President Thabo Mbeki on Friday called for an end to all measures intended to isolate the Palestinian Authority and for the parties involved to renew their peace efforts. Writing in his weekly newsletter, Mbeki congratulated Saudi Arabian King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khalid Mish’al for concluding last week’s Mecca agreement.
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/ 16 February 2007
United States and Iraqi forces are meeting little resistance as they sweep through Baghdad, a US officer said on Friday, a day after Iraq’s president said a Shi’ite militia had ordered its leaders to leave the country. The head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was wounded on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said.
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/ 15 February 2007
An era draws to a close this week when French President Jacques Chirac hosts his last summit of leaders from Africa, a continent where France’s traditional influence is being threatened by resource-hungry China. Chirac’s office said there would likely be a meeting on Thursday between the heads of Sudan, Central Afrian Republic and Chad about Darfur.
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/ 14 February 2007
United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called off a visit to Darfur after Sudanese officials demanded the removal of the UN’s former top rights official from the group. The six-member team, set up last December by the UN Human Rights Council, said it would pursue its work without entering the country.
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/ 13 February 2007
A state witness could not deny on Tuesday that the eight accused in the Equatorial Guinea coup trial may have been ignorant of the plot. Cross-examined in the Pretoria Regional Court on Tuesday, James Kershaw (27) said he himself only found out about the alleged coup two days before the group flew out of South Africa.
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/ 13 February 2007
Africa struggles to turn natural resource exports into lasting wealth because it fails to manage the revenues openly enough, World Bank experts said on Monday. ”We don’t know how governments and the elites receive their money,” said World Bank petroleum economist Eleodoro Mayorga Alba.
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/ 12 February 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) has yet to decide when its national executive committee (NEC) will meet to discuss a report into last year’s hoax e-mail saga. The NEC was discussing the matter on Monday, said ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama. It has not yet been decided whether it will take place this weekend — as has been reported. The date will be announced, he said.
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/ 12 February 2007
France winger Vincent Clerc scored a try one minute from time to clinch a nerve-rattling 20-17 win over Ireland in a Six Nations clash at Croke Park in Dublin on Sunday. Ireland flyhalf Ronan O’Gara had landed a penalty with two minutes to play but from the resulting kick-off, the ball went loose and fell to French hands.