Pretoria police investigating the murder of Pretoria dancer Estee van Rensburg asked the public on Thursday to help them find the silver Toyota Tazz that was stolen from her home. The 19-year-old ballet dancer was found dead in her home when her domestic worker reported for work on Wednesday morning.
African National Congress (ANC) MPs who are part of the Southern African Development Community observer mission to the parliamentary and presidential elections in Zimbabwe will have more freedom than before to give their honest assessment of the situation in that country.
Passengers at Durban International Airport, some of them heading for the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town, were so enraged when a Mango flight was cancelled on Saturday that one of them smashed a glass door and armed riot police were called, the Cape Argus has reported.
He was skewered in New York, roasted in Ireland, and now a top French food critic has warned against his ”unexciting” cooking driven by the money-making ambitions of a global brand. But Gordon Ramsay’s quest for world domination continues next week when he launches a restaurant outside Paris.
South Africa’s financial services industry might be relatively unscathed by turmoil, but the flight of investors could bring a balance-of-payments crunch, writes Maya Fisher-French. This liquidity crisis has come at a critical time for the country, which is facing its own set of economic woes.
Personal ambitions and thirst for power threaten the unity of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) as the battle for leadership positions intensifies. With only two weeks left before its elective conference, the youth organisation is now split into two factions.
The African National Congress (ANC) will not make its arms-deal report public, the ruling party reiterated on Wednesday. In a statement, the ANC said it noted a call in the media by the Congress of South African Trade Unions to have the outcome of its arms-deal report made public.
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma will on Tuesday lead the party’s delegation to Angola to mark the 20th anniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The delegation is expected to return home on Monday. A parliamentary delegation left from Pretoria on Friday in a convoy to Cuito Cuanavale to commemorate the battle.
The African National Congress (ANC) wants its new deputy president, Kgalema Motlanthe, in government, ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe said on Monday. There has been much speculation on whether the ANC’s new leadership would want one of its own present in President Thabo Mbeki’s government.
The African National Congress’s (ANC) national executive committee (NEC) was locked behind closed doors on Friday at its second meeting since the Polokwane national conference in December, media reports said. The aim was to rid the party of internal wrangles simmering since its policy conference.