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/ 3 November 2007
On a day on which 18 wickets fell, Friedel de Wet claimed his tenth five wicket haul with figures of six for 50 to give South Africa A a commanding lead of 271 at the end of the second day of their four-day match against New Zealand at Sedgars Park on Friday.
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/ 3 November 2007
The police are obliged to investigate fraud and corruption charges against Scorpions boss Gerrie Nel if a criminal complaint has been brought, the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) said on Friday. This would be necessary, even if the complaint was the latest salvo in the police’s ongoing spat with the Scorpions, said senior researcher Jake Moloi.
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/ 2 November 2007
A police fraud and corruption investigation into Scorpions boss Gerrie Nel would not impact on his handling of the probe into the death of Brett Kebble, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Friday. ”There is nothing at hand to suggest this investigation will in any way impact on all matters on which advocate Nel is working,” said NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali.
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/ 2 November 2007
A former dormitory employee at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Johannesburg has been arrested, Gauteng police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini said the 27-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday by the family violence, child protection and sexual offences unit on several charges of abuse.
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/ 2 November 2007
Flights in and out of Cape Town International Airport were delayed on Friday after a plane became ”stuck” on a runway, the Airports Company South Africa said. Spokesperson Deidre Hendricks said in a statement that the plane ”got stuck on the main runway” just before 3pm.
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/ 2 November 2007
Those involved in the recent fierce debate over abalone needed to bear in mind the species was on the brink of extinction, major environmental organisations warned on Friday. The warning follows the delay of a ban on commercial trade and harvesting of the valuable shellfish in the face of strong opposition from those with permits to do so.
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/ 2 November 2007
A chapter in Sharks rugby closed on Thursday evening as the team bid farewell to two players who have served with distinction. John Smit and Butch James are taking up contracts to play in France and England respectively, and on Thursday evening were honoured for their contributions to rugby in KwaZulu-Natal.
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/ 2 November 2007
A bomb that was attached to a cash-in-transit vehicle in Durban was defused by the police’s bomb squad on Friday afternoon, police said. Spokesperson Superintendent Vincent Mdunge confirmed the incident at a shopping mall in Durban’s Montclair suburb, but said details were sketchy.
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/ 2 November 2007
There will be no cover-up in the alleged spy scandal involving the surveillance of Cape Town councillors, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille vowed on Friday. ”Let me be clear. There will be no cover-up in this matter. If anyone in the city or the DA has broken any law, the police must lay a charge and we will deal with it head-on,” she said.
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/ 2 November 2007
One hundred and fifty people were treated for diarrhoea in the Nkangala area in Delmas since the outbreak last week, Mpumalanga provincial minister of health and social services Sipho Lubisi said on Friday. ”A hundred and fifty cases have been reported to outpatient facilities for treatment. At this point in time, no deaths linked to diarrhoea have been reported.”
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/ 2 November 2007
Margaret Legum, best known for her call to sanction apartheid South Africa, died in Cape Town at the age of 74 on Thursday. She died of complications arising from a cancer-related operation. She leaves behind two sisters, three daughters, five granddaughters and one grandson.
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/ 2 November 2007
A court challenge to Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk’s new abalone restrictions has been postponed for a month. Legal teams of the South African Abalone Industry Association and the state gathered at the Cape High Court on Friday morning for what was expected to be an application for an urgent interdict against the restrictions.
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/ 2 November 2007
Africa’s state-owned oil firms are taking a bigger role in the rush to tap the continent’s energy resources and threatening to upstage the Western majors who have dominated exploration and drilling for decades. Governments from Luanda to Lagos are pushing for greater control and laying down increasingly stringent rules for the international firms.
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/ 2 November 2007
Police seized cocaine valued at about R50-million at OR Tambo International Airport on Friday. Spokesperson Captain Dennis Adriao said the drugs had been found on a plane from Brazil. He said the bust brought the number of drug finds at the airport to four in the space of three weeks.
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/ 2 November 2007
One of the witnesses recalled in the case of former spy boss Billy Masetlha on Friday corroborated evidence that the inspector general of intelligence was sent a report — which he had asked for — on September 30 2005. Although Masetlha’s former personal assistant Nokuthula Motshwane could not be in court, she gave evidence through an affidavit.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Home Affairs is forging ahead with plans to introduce a smart-card identification system, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Friday. ”It is clear to us that we have to move in this direction as quickly as possible,” she told a media briefing at Parliament.
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/ 2 November 2007
AngloGold Ashanti shut one of its larger mines in South Africa on Friday after a miner was killed in a rockfall as a miners’ strike to protest against the spate of mine deaths in the country loomed. AngloGold, the world’s third-biggest gold producer, shut its TauTona mine after the worker died in the early hours of Friday.
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/ 2 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki devoted a large part of his speech to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Friday to criticising the behaviour and ownership of the media. Speaking in Pniel, outside Stellenbosch, where the NCOP was holding a provincial sitting, he emphasised that the government has ”absolutely no intention to limit press freedom”.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Home Affairs has ditched the South African Post Office (Sapo) as the distributor of its documents because of inefficiency. Initially, the Sapo contract with the department to deliver documents went very well, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told a media briefing at Parliament on Friday.
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/ 2 November 2007
Former anti-apartheid activist Helen Suzman has not been given the recognition she deserves in the new South Africa, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Friday. In a tribute to Suzman ahead of her 90th birthday next week, he said she had tirelessly used her position as MP during the Sixties and Seventies to break the apartheid mould.
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/ 2 November 2007
The JSE recouped some of its earlier losses, but remained lower at midday on Friday on hopes that United States jobs data due out later in the day would support a case for another rate cut in the US. The local bourse was down more than 340 points in early trade following similar drops overseas stemming from renewed US subprime housing-market concerns.
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/ 2 November 2007
South African vehicle sales fell by 5,9%, or 3 423 units, year-on-year in October to 54 387 units with the decline driven by the passenger-car market, new data showed on Friday. Sales data showed that aggregate sales for the first ten months of the year were 3,5% lower than the same time last year.
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/ 2 November 2007
With prospects of yet another foreigner winning the Soweto Marathon, Athletics South Africa has decided to invest in the future of the sport. And that future, it says, lies with middle-distance runners such as 24-year-old University of Free State star Boy Soke. On Sunday, Soke will run the 10km route of the Soweto road race.
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/ 2 November 2007
The retail price of all grades of petrol will increase by three cents a litre on Wednesday November 7, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel — all grades — will decrease by six cents a litre.
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/ 2 November 2007
The Department of Labour said on Friday that preliminary findings of the ongoing inspections of compliance by the South African iron and steel industry painted a picture of an industry "fraught with high disregard of labour legislation countrywide".
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/ 2 November 2007
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Friday at a <i>Financial Mail</i> medium-term budget briefing that the world had changed in the past 12 years and developing countries needed to become more involved in the world trade regime or else they would just be following the procession.
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/ 2 November 2007
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The battle for leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) would be either a two- or three-way race, businessman Saki Macozoma told students and academics at the University of the Witwatersrand on Thursday. ”That’s what I read,” he said in a lecture facilitated by the Platform on Public Deliberations.
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/ 2 November 2007
Scorpions boss Gerrie Nel is under police investigation for fraud and corruption, a media report said on Friday. Nel led the investigation into the shooting of mining magnate Brett Kebble and led the state’s aborted probe into alleged criminal activity by police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 1 November 2007
Two commuters and a taxi driver were injured when they were caught in the crossfire of a taxi-violence shoot-out in Edenvale on Thursday. Ekurhuleni metro police spokesperson Inspector Jimmy Maboko said between 100 and 150 members of the Germiston Taxi Association and the Tembisa Taxi Association had gathered and began shooting at each other.
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/ 1 November 2007
President Thabo Mbeki has ignored all written parliamentary questions addressed to him by the official opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Thursday. DA parliamentary leader Sandra Botha said Mbeki had not responded to all nine questions that the party had addressed to him this year.
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/ 1 November 2007
The inspector general of intelligence will take the witness stand in the Hatfield Community Court on Friday after former spy boss Billy Masetlha’s defence was granted an application to recall witnesses. Zolile Ngcakani is to be asked whether he received a report that Masetlha said he sent to him on September 30 2005.
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/ 1 November 2007
Arthur Magerman can still vividly remember the summer’s morning half a century ago when he joined thousands of fellow township residents on the long walk to work in a protest seen as the first major salvo in the battle against South Africa’s apartheid regime.