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/ 15 September 2005
Two KwaZulu-Natal ambulance men had a narrow escape on Wednesday night when their ambulance was hijacked by gunmen. Captain Jabulani Mdletshe said driver Senzo Mkhumbuzi and colleague Paul Hlope were called out to Sonto Reserve in Mseleni to pick up a sick man at around 10pm.
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/ 14 September 2005
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma has made no requests to the Presidency to fund his defence during his upcoming trial on corruption charges, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union called for mass pressure to support Zuma.
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/ 14 September 2005
The typhoid outbreak at Delmas in Mpumalanga is a clear reminder of the importance of environmental epidemiology, a senior health official said on Wednesday. Deputy Director General of Health Kamy Chetty said: ”It very clearly brings out issues of environmental health and its health impact on people.”
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/ 13 September 2005
A survey has revealed that over 20% of KwaZulu-Natal youth have had suicidal thoughts, a suicide prevention congress heard in Durban on Tuesday. KwaZulu-Natal education MEC Ina Cronje said the results from the survey indicated that ”at a national level 24,6% of learners indicated that they felt so sad or had such hopeless feelings that they wanted to stop living”.
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/ 13 September 2005
Swazi schoolchildren are feeling the brunt of renewed debate over the Swaziland-South African border. South African soldiers are reportedly blocking Swazi students from attending schools on the South African side of the frontier. A South African immigration official, is alleged to have threatened to prosecute South African school authorities who continued to admit Swazi pupils without study permits.
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/ 12 September 2005
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will not hand over documents seized during raids on Jacob Zuma’s residences, his lawyer said on Monday. Michael Hulley said the NPA told him that it wants to wait for the outcome of an appeal on a case regarding Zuma’s former attorney, Julekha Mahomed.
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/ 12 September 2005
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is expected to respond on Monday to a request that documents seized during raids on former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s residences be given back. Zuma’s attorney Michael Hulley said he had been told the NPA would meet on Monday before responding to his request.
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/ 11 September 2005
South Africa’s first black aerobatics pilot Gabriel Siyabonga Ndabandaba was on Saturday identified as one of the two people killed when a jet plane crashed in Vereeniging, in the Vaal. The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said two people were killed on Saturday morning while performing stunts at an airshow.
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/ 9 September 2005
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The National Directorate of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) on Friday said it will appeal a Johannesburg High Court judgement that found that it unlawfully obtained and executed search warrants. Meanwhile, a magistrate is trying to force the state to act on criminal charges he instituted against former head of the NDPP Bulelani Ngcuka.
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/ 9 September 2005
Three elderly people will appear in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges relating to the distribution of child pornography, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Superintendent Phindile Radebe said the three — a couple and their relative — together with another man were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday after an extensive six month investigation.
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/ 8 September 2005
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There is no need for a probe into the stand-off between the VIP protection unit of the police and the Scorpions during the recent raid on former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s home, Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula said on Thursday. ”What would we be investigating?” Nqakula asked.
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/ 7 September 2005
Political parties were on Wednesday challenged to field more female candidates as councillors for the upcoming municipal elections by chief electoral officer Pansy Tlakula. ”We had about 60% of all voter registrations this weekend being women,” Tlakula said at a briefing on the outcome of the registration drive.
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/ 7 September 2005
White farmers on Wednesday threatened an armed struggle similar to that waged by the African National Congress unless their property and cultural concerns are addressed. A handful of farmers presented a memorandum to TAU South Africa president Paul van der Walt on the fringes of an agricultural union conference.
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/ 7 September 2005
Forty decomposing bodies have been found in an Umlazi mortuary in KwaZulu-Natal, some of which had been there since 1991, police said on Wednesday. ”The local community complained about an unbearable smell, and we went to investigate,” said Captain Vincent Mdunge.
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/ 6 September 2005
Parliamentary veteran and former chairperson of the watchdog standing committee on public accounts Gavin Woods has crossed the floor from the Inkatha Freedom Party to the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco) led by Ziba Jiyane.
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/ 5 September 2005
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has been effectively cleared by two commissioners of bias and wrongdoing over the Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka ”booing” incident — because it did not get the footage from the freelance cameraman. The commissioners acknowledged: ”This issue may require further probing.”
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/ 5 September 2005
The National Democratic Convention (Nadeco) gained almost 500 new members in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend, the party said on Monday. ”We can’t cope with the requests of people asking for Nadeco membership cards,” said Reverend Hawu Mbatha, who last week crossed to Nadeco from the African Christian Democratic Party.
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/ 4 September 2005
Inkatha Freedom Party defector Ziba Jiyane on Sunday scoffed at suggestions that he could be likened to former New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk. In an interview at his home in Richards Bay, he said the idea presented by his former party boss, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, is ridiculous.
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/ 3 September 2005
There was smooth voter registration countrywide except for isolated technical problems and two service-delivery protest marches, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said. The IEC hoped to register 800 000 eligible voters at about 19 000 points countrywide on Saturday.
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/ 3 September 2005
Floor-crossing, dubbed ”crosstitution”, will lead to the rapid consolidation of a one-party state in South Africa, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi told the party’s 30th annual conference on Saturday. ”Our democracy is crumbling because those in power do not care,” he said.
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/ 2 September 2005
At least four municipal managers received remuneration packages exceeding R1-million last year — closely matching or exceeding that of President Thabo Mbeki, according to Treasury statistics released on Friday. The municipal manager of eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal received a package of R1,091-million in the 2004/05 financial year.
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/ 1 September 2005
The 15-day floor-crossing window for MPs and MPLs to change parties without losing their seats got under way on Thursday and brought some surprise defections. Among these were African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) MP and Chief Whip in the National Assembly Louis Green, and ACDP KwaZulu-Natal MPL and leader Reverend Hawu Mbatha.
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/ 1 September 2005
A society of moral dwarves I am amazed at the apparent weaknesses of the world’s only superpower. I always thought that, since the United States can deploy hundreds of thousands of troops in far-flung corners of the globe within days, it would at least be able to deal with a disaster at home. Through the […]
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/ 1 September 2005
Make institutions work Christopher Caudwell, in Studies in a Dying Culture, picks on Rousseau to expose the fallacy in the idea that human beings lose their freedom because of institutions. “Unfortunately, not only is man not good without institutions, he is not evil, either. He is no man at all; he is neither good nor […]
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/ 1 September 2005
Cape High Court judges worked overtime on Wednesday to deal with a barrage of legal action ahead of the midnight opening of the political floor-crossing window. The United Democratic Movement on Wednesday expelled six MPs and MPLs from the party, and the Independent Democrats gave the boot to its deputy leader and Gauteng MPL Themba Sono.
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s son, Tutu Buthelezi, is to stand against his father’s party in an upcoming municipal by-election in the Inkatha stronghold. Tutu Buthelezi announced this week that he had joined former Inkatha Freedom Party national chairperson Ziba Jiyane in his new National Democratic Convention party.
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KwaZulu-Natal leaders of the African National Congress alliance pledged support on Monday for axed deputy president Jacob Zuma and condemned recent police raids on his home. However, they also urged South Africans to support President Thabo Mbeki and Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka as the leaders of the country.
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sibusiso Ndebele are taking the <i>City Press</i> newspaper to court over an article that alleged they were apartheid spies. "This is after the <i>City Press</i> newspaper refused to apologise and retract in full its report of August 7 2005," Lekota said on Monday evening.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The tripartite alliance is to meet sooner rather than later to discuss President Thabo Mbeki’s proposed inquiry into an alleged plot against Jacob Zuma, African National Congress spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said on Monday, as a call was made for Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s resignation.
The CEO of the state broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), has initiatied "an internal process" to review all facts and events surrounding the August 9 footage and news coverage of the booing incident involving Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
The Inkatha Freedom Party did not breach election regulations by handing out stationery with its logo to schools in the Zululand region, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said on Friday. ”What is at stake is whether the party was in breach of the Department of Education’s regulations and policies,” said the IEC.
A 50-year-old tree tumbled across a road in Newlands, Cape Town, on Friday as gale-force winds, driving rain and bitter cold hit the city in the early hours of the morning. The Elsieskraal River flowing through Pinelands had apparently burst its banks, but there was no major flooding reported so far, said senior traffic officer Lyndon Herbert.