The case of controversial Durban businessman Schabir Shaik was postponed in the city’s magistrate’s court on Friday to January 17 next year. Friday’s case relates to Shaik allegedly being in possession of minutes of a Cabinet meeting on the multibillion-rand arms deal.
Norway will give South Africa about R235-million under a five-year bilateral cooperation agreement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. The two countries’ foreign affairs ministers met on Friday for the annual consultations that were set out in the memorandum of understanding of 1996 between the two countries.
The victory of African slaves over French rule in Haiti in the 1800s should be used by Africans to inspire them to address successfully the challenges facing them across the world, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. He was spreaking at the Sixth African Renaissance Conference in Durban.
The government is concerned by reports that the risk of infectious diseases was high in prisons as a result of rapes, says Health Minister Manto Tshabalala Msimang. She says HIV/Aids was reported to be high in prisons, especially among male inmates, because of the rape cases that were reported.
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/ 23 February 2004
An African National Congress activist was shot dead near Umkhomazi, south of Durban, on Friday, according to a statement from the party. The ANC said it believed two out of five attackers who were party to the murder of 25-year-old Sifiso Msomi, were local Inkatha Freedom Party activists.
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/ 20 February 2004
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The African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party delivered messages of peace as they signed a code of conduct in Durban on Friday with 11 other parties contesting the April elections in KwaZulu-Natal. Several cases of political clashes have recently been reported between the ANC and IFP in KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 20 February 2004
A second ambulance has been hijacked this week in KwaZulu-Natal after a hoax call, police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo said the latest incident happened on Thursday night at approximately 10pm in J-Section, Umlazi, near Durban. This first incident took place on Tuesday.
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/ 14 February 2004
The Roman Catholic Emeritus Archbishop of Durban, Denis Eugene Hurley, died on Friday in Durban after returning from a religious celebration. At the age of 31 Hurley became the youngest Catholic bishop in the world at tht time and was hailed as a champion of human rights.
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/ 13 February 2004
A key member of the South African Broadcasting Corporation board personally arranged for the placing of an advertisement for the African National Congress on SABC radio — using his own company to do the booking and earning an agency commission.
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/ 12 February 2004
Seventeen people were badly injured on Thursday when about 7 000 people turned up to apply for 500 jobs at Durban’s new marine theme park, police said. Another 52 job seekers suffered minor injuries. Some of the job seekers, gathered at Durban’s International Convention Centre, were crushed against a steel fence.
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/ 28 January 2004
Representatives of the Inkatha Freedom Party and African National Congress met for talks in Durban on Tuesday, but the talks were inconclusive, ANC national spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said. He added that the meeting at Kings House in Durban was regarded ”as a meeting in progress, as always”.
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/ 26 January 2004
The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday criticised the early closure of voter registration stations in the Durban area despite an assurance by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to the contrary. The ANC said it was ”outraged” at the way IEC staff members conducted themselves at the voting stations.
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/ 24 January 2004
South Africa could teach newly democratic countries in Europe a thing or two about the Constitution making progress, although the Europeans are arguably more adept at stimulating economic development, says ambassador Michael Lake, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission in South Africa.
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/ 24 January 2004
Judge President of the Cape, Justice John Hlophe, says the continued use of English and Afrikaans in South African courts is hampering the transformation of justice. The judge said about 90% of cases heard in the lower courts involved indigenous language speakers.
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/ 23 January 2004
A 71-year-old Durban doctor and a 29-year-old woman were arrested on Friday for their involvement in the international smuggling of human tissue, police reported. Trafficking in human tissue and body parts made headlines last year when it was discovered South Africa was a major destination for human body parts.
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/ 18 January 2004
South Africa needs a democratic alternative to win the war against HIV/Aids, unemployment, crime, poverty and to prevent the consolidation of a one-party state, Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Sunday when he unveiled his party’s manifesto and election campaign in Durban.
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/ 10 January 2004
President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday that the key to fighting poverty and creating jobs was the participation of all South Africans in the process. Launching the election manifesto of the African National Congress (ANC) at Durban City Hall on Saturday night, Mbeki said the document was about attending to the unskilled workers.
What’s good for the goose…
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/ 4 December 2003
Two men believed to be involved in an international human organ trafficking network were arrested in Durban on Wednesday. Spokesperson Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht said the men, both of Israeli descent, were in custody following their arrest.
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/ 3 December 2003
A post mortem performed on the former daughter-in-law of politician Amichand Rajbansi has shown that she might have died from strangulation, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Tuesday. Karnagie Thandree (32) was found dead in her upmarket Durban townhouse on Sunday.
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/ 18 November 2003
Both taxi associations involved in violence on the Durban North Coast on Thursday and Friday last week have had their permits taken away, police said on Tuesday. The provincial taxi board withdrew their permits in order to get them to come to the negotiating table, said the police.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23602">Taxi war simmers in KwaZulu-Natal</a>
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/ 14 November 2003
West African drug syndicates are running amok in Durban’s Point area and last year alone the area saw an estimated R1,4-billion change hands in narcotics deals, according to a senior criminal investigator.
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/ 29 October 2003
Twenty-six government officials, including two heads of districts from the KwaZulu-Natal agriculture department, have been arrested for fraud totalling R1,1-million, police said on Wednesday. The affected areas are Vryheid, Nongoma, Babanango, Empangeni and Eshowe.
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/ 29 October 2003
British tourist Derek Bond, who had a horror stay in a Durban jail for 20 days earlier this year, has returned to KwaZulu-Natal — this time at the expense and guest of Tourism KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 24 October 2003
An Umlazi businessman was found dead in an ambulance after it was hijacked while taking him to hospital on Thursday night, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday. Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo said Vusumuzi Shezi (60) and Sibusiso Makhanya (38) were at Shezi’s spaza shop when four men entered the shop and randomly opened fire.
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/ 23 October 2003
KwaZulu-Natal provincial nature conservation has received at least 20 offers from people who want to become involved in a breeding project for the endangered black rhino. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife spokesperson Derek Potter said in a statement on Wednesday that the breeding project would be part of a new programme to increase the numbers of black rhino.
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/ 22 October 2003
Delinquent passengers are running amok on the country’s trains, creating a headache for Metrorail who announced this week that it had spent R177-million this year on security alone. For next year it has budgeted R221-million for security expenses.
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/ 20 October 2003
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday expressed shock following a road accident that left 15 pensioners dead and 13 seriously injured. The pensioners were queuing to collect their grants when a horse and trailer ploughed into the pensioners on the side of the road.
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/ 20 October 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma opened a World Road Congress in Durban on Sunday with a reminder to delegates of the some 100 member countries in attendance that transport infrastructures were critical to the continent’s development.
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/ 17 October 2003
Battles in the African National Congress are typically fought underground. They smoulder along the seams of the party, occasionally showing above the surface in seemingly isolated outbursts from the party’s more incendiary factions, like the ANC Youth League or Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
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/ 22 September 2003
Southern Africa is set to increase its annual output of aluminium from 1,1-million tons to 1,384-million tons, or 7% of global output, once the expansion of the Hillside and Mozal smelters is complete in 2004, BHP Billiton Aluminium South Africa president Mahomed Seedat said on Monday. At present, Southern Africa has three aluminium smelters — […]
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/ 20 September 2003
The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein dismissed on Friday a businessman’s attempt to evade debt repayment through claiming an illegal name change by his bank. The Appeal judge found the argument ‘superficially attractive’, but not surviving ‘the test of the facts or the law’.