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/ 25 October 2005
Doctors at the Pretoria Academic hospital have obtained an urgent court order enabling them to give a month-old baby a blood transfusion, Independent Online reported on Tuesday. The baby’s family, who live in Sunnyside and are Jehovah’s Witnesses, were deeply distressed by the turn of events.
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/ 25 October 2005
The African National Congress needs to find a ”far more dignified” way of dealing with the succession issue, business magnate and former party heavyweight Tokyo Sexwale said on Monday. ”What we are seeing with the [Jacob] Zuma/Thabo Mbeki debacle is less than dignified,” he told an Institute for Justice and Reconciliation symposium in Cape Town.
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/ 24 October 2005
Infighting in the ruling African National Congress alliance is threatening the proper functioning of South Africa’s security apparatus and critical constitutional freedoms, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. Reports of hoax e-mails aimed at discrediting people such as ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe are cause for grave concern, it said.
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/ 24 October 2005
It turned out as though pre-ordained when Kaizer Chiefs were pitted against Jomo Cosmos in a ”best of enemies” Coca-Cola Cup quarterfinal on Monday. The bitterness between the clubs stems from the long-standing feuding and fighting between respective owners Kaizer Motaung and Jomo Sono.
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/ 24 October 2005
The Northern Cape High Court ruled in favour of the Northern Cape education department on Monday that three Afrikaans-medium schools become dual-medium. The Kalahari High School and Seodin Primary School in Kuruman and the Noord-Kaapland Agricultural High School in Jan Kempdorp took the department to court.
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/ 24 October 2005
Peter Jooste, convener of the national selection panel, has confirmed on Monday the call-up of Wikus van Heerden to the Springbok squad in place of the injured Pedrie Wannenburg. Blue Bulls flanker Wannenburg sustained an ankle injury on Saturday in the Absa Currie Cup final match against the Vodacom Cheetahs in Pretoria.
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/ 24 October 2005
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was granted leave on Monday to appeal against an earlier ruling by the Johannesburg High Court that documents confiscated in a raid on one of former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s attorneys had to be returned.
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/ 24 October 2005
The Freedom Front Plus has won the University of Pretoria’s annual student representative council elections for the ninth time in a row, party leader Pieter Mulder said on Monday. ”The result is of special importance seen in the light of the language debate which is currently taking place at historically Afrikaans universities,” Mulder said.
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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
Cape Town-based television producer Adele Lorenzo was among those who died when a Boeing 737 crashed in Nigeria on Saturday, a colleague confirmed. A co-worker was still in Nigeria on Monday and would go to the crash site for identification and to see whether any belongings were retrieved.
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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
Motorsport stalwart David Philip Clapham died aged 74 at the Sunninghill hospital on Saturday, the South African Guild of Motoring Journalists said. Clapham was a fellow of the guild and the founder organiser of its Car of the Year competition, which he ran for 18 years, the guild’s Robin Emslie said in a media statement on Monday.
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/ 24 October 2005
Namibian minister without portfolio Ngarikutuke Tjiriange has objected to the press watching MPs’ ”every move” in the National Assembly, The Namibian newspaper’s website reported on Monday. It said Tjiriange complained in the assembly he felt as he was under a microscope.
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/ 24 October 2005
A 17m-long sperm whale that beached off Ngqura harbour in Algoa Bay, Eastern Cape, at the weekend, has died, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Monday. Earlier on Monday, Ian Gray, the NSRI’s spokesperson in Port Elizabeth, said the whale was expected to die ”within the next two hours”.
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/ 24 October 2005
In a move unprecedented in Border Rugby Football Union history, a vote of no confidence was on Sunday passed in the current executive and its president, Monwabisi Yako. However, after the meeting Yako declared he was still the president and it would be business as usual on Monday.
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/ 24 October 2005
The undertaking business will controversially call for the HIV status of the dead to be recorded on death certificates, the United Funeral Association of SA (Ufasa) said on Monday. ”The government must recognise what the health threat is to the industry,” Ufasa’s founder member Johan Rousseau said.
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/ 24 October 2005
A sparkling innings of 73 by big-hitting Justin Kemp saw South Africa win the first Standard Bank one-day international against New Zealand by two wickets in Bloemfontein on Sunday, to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. The nearly 7 000 fans were left on tenterhooks until the final over.
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/ 24 October 2005
The race-based Eyethu share scheme offered by Nedbank was likely to be tested in the equality court after a complaint by one of its members, labour union Solidarity said on Sunday. Spokesperson Kallie Kriel said in a statement that Clinton Kuypers tried twice in the past week to buy Eyethu shares from Nedbank, but was turned away because he is ”white”.
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/ 24 October 2005
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will on Monday appeal a court ruling that the NPA return documents seized in a search of the offices of Julekha Mahomed, an attorney of former deputy president Jacob Zuma. The documents were taken during a countrywide raid on Zuma’s properties and those of his lawyers by the Scorpions in August.
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/ 24 October 2005
South Africa’s corporate tax should be reduced to 25% or less as part of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) has urged. Manuel presents the MTBPS to Parliament on Tuesday.
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/ 24 October 2005
South Africa could achieve six percent economic growth before the government’s target date if its policies were rapidly implemented, the International Investment Council said on Sunday. Council members suggested that remaining barriers to growth, such as skills shortages, regulations and infrastructure, should be dealt with more quickly.
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/ 23 October 2005
National coach Jake White named a predictable 28-man Springbok squad at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday for the tour of Argentina, Wales and France next month. White stuck mostly to his tried and tested charges for what will undoubtedly be a gruelling three-Test tour, but handed comeback places to Lions fullback Conrad Jantjes and Western Province scrumhalf Bolla Conradie.
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/ 23 October 2005
Cape High Court Judge President John Hlophe said on Saturday that racism in the judiciary was peddled by those resisting transformation, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported. ”These problems experienced are designed to ensure that those who do not want change, hang on to what they have,” the SABC quoted Hlope as saying.
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/ 23 October 2005
The Thabo Mbeki-Jacob Zuma ”fight” was affecting government’s performance at every level, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Saturday. ”And the DA, as the official opposition leader, cannot remain neutral and detached. But which side, if any, should we support in the ANC’s internal battle?”
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/ 22 October 2005
The Cheetahs won only their second-ever Currie Cup title when they shocked the defending champions Blue Bulls 29-25 in a pulsating final played in front of a packed Loftus Versfeld on Saturday evening. The Bulls led 12-9 at half-time and 25-15 with nine minutes remaining.
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/ 22 October 2005
Wildlife experts and government officials from South Africa and Cameroon wrapped up talks on Friday on the future of four rare gorillas claimed by both countries. The Western Lowland gorillas were smuggled out of Nigeria through South Africa and to Malaysia’s Taiping Zoo about three years ago.
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/ 22 October 2005
Efforts at self-determination by groups of South Africans still face various obstacles, Rhodes University chancellor Jakes Gerwel said on Friday. ”Though there is room to move forward in terms of Article 235 [in the Constitution] it should not be accompanied by the perception of crude ethnic diversity,” Gerwel told delegates at a conference on self-determination.
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/ 22 October 2005
As if he did not have enough problems on his mind, Kaizer Chiefs coach Ernst Middendorp approaches Saturday’s Coca-Cola Cup clash against Classic in Rustenburg with six players having picked up two yellow cards — with a third booking meaning an automatic suspension.
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/ 22 October 2005
The familiar spectre of batting collapses continued to haunt the Warriors as they tottered to 38 for four at the close of the second day of their Supersport Series cricket match against the Cape Cobras at St George’s Park on Friday. The slump in the day’s final 20 overs by the Eastern Cape side threatened to undermine a fine bowling performance which saw them restrict the visitors to 211 for nine declared.
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/ 22 October 2005
International experience showed judicial education was an effective way of supporting transformation, the University of Cape Town’s Law, Race and Gender Research Institute said in a submission to the judges’ probe into racism and sexism.
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/ 22 October 2005
In just one week, police reported 15 murders in South Africa, with the most gruesome case being that of a North West father who wiped out his entire family. Inspector Thabo Makhafola said the man, from Madikwe’s Lethlakeng village in North West, had been a security guard at a mine in the area.
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/ 21 October 2005
Springbok coach Jake White is expected to stick mostly to the tried-and-tested when he names a 28-man squad to tour Argentina, Wales and France next month, although one shock could be in store. The announcement is scheduled to take place shortly after the completion of the Currie Cup final on Saturday evening.