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/ 12 November 2005
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma sang and danced with his supporters in Durban on Saturday morning shortly after hearing that his corruption trial would start in the high court on July 31 next year. Speaking in Zulu, Zuma explained the judicial process to the crowd.
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/ 12 November 2005
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Saturday. He was formally served with an indictment. Earlier on Saturday, hundreds of people danced and sang to the sounds of trumpets and drums outside the court as they prepared for Zuma’s arrival.
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/ 10 November 2005
KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress Premier Sibusiso Ndebele should refrain from attending a routine court appearance of former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Saturday, says Democratic Alliance KwaZulu-Natal leader Roger Burrows. The party says that leading public demonstrations outside court would undermine judicial independence.
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/ 10 November 2005
The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is often celebrated for its uniqueness: every internet user can create new articles and edit entries. Wikipedia’s popularity is shown by the fact that it records 1 000 page views per second, with about 100 servers to handle the traffic. However, the quality of entries is uneven; sometimes entries are even factually incorrect.
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/ 9 November 2005
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will reject any plea bargain offered by the state in his corruption trial, his lawyer, Michael Hulley, said on Wednesday. Business Day newspaper reported on Wednesday that the Scorpions special investigating unit had signalled its preparedness to entertain a plea bargain with Zuma.
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/ 7 November 2005
The Inkatha Freedom Party Youth Brigade has vowed to make the area of Abaqulusi ungovernable, following the dissolution of the municipality last week. KwaZulu-Natal local government minister Mike Mabuyakhulu announced last week that the IFP-led municipality was in a chaotic state and that he had decided to fire its management.
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/ 4 November 2005
Enthusiasm is something Mimi Mthethwa, newly elected president of Netball South Africa, has in plentiful supply. The Empangeni-based deputy chief education specialist is still working on getting things in order. Julia Beffon speaks to the new boss of South Africa’s biggest women’s sport.
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/ 4 November 2005
Abaqulusi municipality in Vryheid was dissolved on Thursday and its 15 Inkatha Freedom Party councillors fired — a move the IFP said it will fight in court. The party condemns the dissolution by KwaZulu-Natal local government minister Mike Mabuyakhulu and the axing of its councillors, IFP spokesperson Musa Zondi said.
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/ 4 November 2005
A top United Nations Aids envoy this week said poorer nations are doing better than South Africa in the fight against Aids, and accused Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang of preventing him from working in the country with more HIV/Aids sufferers than any other in the world. ”Only the most energetic, uncompromising political leadership can turn this thing around,” he said.
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/ 4 November 2005
Twenty of 40 KwaZulu-Natal civil servants charged with defrauding the social-grant system made their first court appearances at the Durban Commercial Court this week. The 40, mostly from Durban, were arrested in a nationwide campaign that clamped down on thousands of civil servants illegally collecting social grants.
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/ 3 November 2005
Although fires raging through South Africa are being brought under control, the Working on Fire programme warned on Thursday morning that fire danger has increased in three provinces. It said that in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng the ”high orange” on the fire-danger rating index has risen to red.
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/ 1 November 2005
The body of an employee of the KwaZulu-Natal department of local government, housing and traditional affairs was discovered in his office on Durban’s Victoria Embankment on Tuesday morning, four days after he was reported missing by his family. The department is in a state of shock, said a spokesperson.
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/ 1 November 2005
South Africa’s contribution to the technological development of the pebble-bed modular reactor has been described as ”important” in the context of finding clean alternative fuels by the new British high commissioner to South Africa, Paul Boateng. He was speaking at a Cape Town Press Club function on the critical issue of global warming.
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/ 1 November 2005
When foreign Muslims, including from some conservative Muslim countries, visit South Africa, they are usually stunned that there are so many mosques with no women’s facilities. That some mosques do have women’s facilities does not placate them. And when visiting some mosques that accommodate women, they become despondent to see torn carpets in tiny rooms that pass off as ”women’s sections”.
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/ 29 October 2005
A pilot was killed when his plane crashed at Cathedral Peak near the Lesotho border on Friday, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Captain Joshua Gwala said the pilot was travelling alone from Gauteng to Margate in KwaZulu-Natal when he reported he was experiencing engine problems.
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/ 26 October 2005
Three people have died from suspected typhoid fever in the Nongoma area in northern KwaZulu-Natal, the provincial health department said on Wednesday. The first person died in September and the last one died on Sunday, said departmental spokesperson Desmond Motha.
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/ 26 October 2005
South Africa’s highest-paid municipal manager, Mike Sutcliffe, intends giving his performance bonus away, media reports said on Wednesday. Instead, he planned to give the money to a municipal development fund ”where it will be of more benefit”.
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/ 25 October 2005
Msunduzi municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has recovered R2-million from workers owing it money by docking their salaries, the Witness website reported on Tuesday. It said the hefty deductions were made last Friday when employees received their annual 13th cheques.
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/ 24 October 2005
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”There is little doubt that if Jacob Zuma had been a candidate for the presidency of the ruling African National Congress at the party’s national general council in July, he would have won an overwhelming number of votes … It was clearly demonstrated that Zuma had the support of the people,” writes Donwald Pressley.
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/ 24 October 2005
Thousands of workers belonging to the country’s largest union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), have embarked on strike action in the Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal provinces to protest against issues such as job losses, casualisation and racism in the workplace.
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/ 24 October 2005
”Opposition parties and the media often portray municipal managers as a bunch of inefficient, incompetent and useless idiots who have no interests in the communities they serve. Your article (‘Fat cats take the cream’) is no exception and I object strongly,” writes Khayo Mpungose, the municipal manager of the Ugu District municipality.
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/ 21 October 2005
Retailers Pick ‘n Pay and Woolworths have come out against the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) planned pickets, part of Cosatu’s campaign against casualising, retrenchments and foreign goods. ”It seems that Cosatu does not have the facts about Pick ‘n Pay correct,” Pick ‘n Pay personnel director Frans van der Walt said.
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/ 21 October 2005
A KwaZulu-Natal magistrate on Thursday called for four of South Africa’s high-profile lawyers who are current and former top officials in the Scorpions to be struck off the roll of advocates, according to South African Broadcasting Corporation television news.
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/ 20 October 2005
Most people in Johannesburg used their private vehicles to get to work on Thursday despite the government’s call to use public transport and participate in Car-Free Day. Several high-ranking officials and premiers made use of buses and taxis, but motorists in Cape Town, Durban and Bloemfontein still preferred their cars.
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/ 19 October 2005
A Zimbabwean archbishop said on Wednesday he fears 200 000 of his countrymen could die by early next year because of food shortages he blames on his government, and called for President Robert Mugabe’s ouster. Roman Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube said: ”The amount of suffering is beyond imagination.”
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/ 19 October 2005
Where will they lead youth? As we approach our national Youth Day, the calibre of our youth leaders needs to be scrutinised. The breathtaking display of political imbecility by Fikile Mbalula of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and Buti Manamela of the Young Communist League (YCL) in response to Judge Hillary Squires’s findings […]
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/ 19 October 2005
The Hansa Powerade Dusi organising committee on Wednesday announced a massive increase in prize money for the 2006 event, which takes place from January 19 to 21. ”We really wanted to make this the richest prize in canoeing in the world,” said Cameron Mackenzie, chairperson of the organisers.
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/ 19 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki and former deputy president Jacob Zuma are to submit a joint report within a week on the rift threatening the African National Congress. ”It’s about the unity of the movement and dealing with current developments within the ANC,” party spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 October 2005
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The African National Congress will not punish the ”unacceptable behaviour” of its members after former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s Durban court appearance, but warned that those caught misbehaving in future will be disciplined. ”The organisation takes strong exception to such conduct,” ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said.
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/ 15 October 2005
The Zululand Rhino Reserve could develop into the KwaZulu-Natal equivalent of Mala-Mala and Timbavati, provincial arts, culture and tourism minister Narend Singh said on Friday. He was speaking at the official launch of the 24 000ha privately owned reserve in the Msunduzi River valley, near Mkuze.
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/ 14 October 2005
Mike van Graan asks if we can move on to real transformation, now that we have generally replaced white people with black people at the trough of public funds.
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/ 12 October 2005
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma has promised to reveal the reasons for his implication in corruption charges after his court battle that starts next year, but his remarks could test the tempers of African National Congress seniors who have ordered leaders to put up a united front.