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/ 26 September 2007
At least 40 people who were given land or who were compensated under government’s land restitution programme might have made fraudulent land claims. The rightful claimants were forcibly removed from the area by apartheid authorities in the 1950s and 1960s and relocated to the KwaThema township.
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/ 26 September 2007
A man staggering and groping like a blind man and swearing like a sailor. That was the picture painted of Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata by the state’s first witness at the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. The judge is charged with driving under the influence of liquor or drugs, among other charges.
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/ 26 September 2007
Police believe that a Canadian couple, found burnt beyond recognition in KwaZulu-Natal’s northern Drakensberg mountains on Wednesday, died in a veld fire. Spokesperson Superintendent Piet Scott said the couple went for a walk on Thursday and never returned.
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/ 26 September 2007
Media personality Stan Katz was not found guilty on two charges of assault against his ex-wife Philippa Sklaar at the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Magistrate Stanley Mkhari found that there was a lack of evidence regarding the assault against Sklaar in 2001, after the state chose to close its case.
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/ 26 September 2007
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says it hopes the inquiry into its suspended head, Vusi Pikoli, will be held ”expeditiously and fairly”. In a statement on Wednesday, it called on its staff to remain calm and to continue carrying out their duties in the wake of the suspension.
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/ 26 September 2007
The case against two men and a woman accused of abducting and murdering five women whose bodies were found in sugar-cane fields on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast was on Wednesday remanded to October 10. The initial appearance of the three was heard in camera, on request from the state.
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/ 26 September 2007
A witness in the drunk-driving trial of Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata asked not be named or photographed before giving testimony in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Earlier, Motata pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of liquor or drugs, among other charges.
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/ 26 September 2007
South Africa’s targeted CPIX inflation rate slowed to 6,3% in the year to August from 6,5% in July, data showed on Wednesday, slightly above forecasts. Statistics South Africa also said that the all-items consumer price index (CPI) increased by an annual rate of 6,8%, compared to 7% in July.
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/ 26 September 2007
Only four land claims in Gauteng and 81 in North West remain to be resolved before the March 2008 deadline for settling all restitution claims in the country, regional land claims commissioner for Gauteng and North West, Tumi Seboka, said on Wednesday.
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/ 26 September 2007
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has threatened to take court action if lawyer Christine Qunta is reappointed to the board of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). TAC leader Zachie Achmat said Qunta’s involvement in a company selling untested medicines purporting to cure HIV/Aids disqualified her from occupying public office.
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/ 26 September 2007
General Motors South Africa is "relieved" that the two-week-old strike in the motor-component industry has ended. Several South African motor manufacturers were badly affected by the strike, which forced them to shut down production facilities due to a lack of parts. The strike ended on Tuesday evening.
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/ 26 September 2007
The JSE was steady at midday on Wednesday, unmoved by the release of local CPI and CPIX data which was in line with market expectations. By noon, the JSE’s all-share index had collected 0,52% as the gold-mining index advanced 1,22%. The platinum-mining index added 0,95% and financials climbed 0,68%.
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/ 26 September 2007
The Premier Soccer League’s chaotically-arranged first round of the Telkom Knockout competition will be launched on Wednesday night when Mamelodi Sundowns will attempt to repair their dented image against Golden Arrows at Loftus.
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/ 26 September 2007
Massive resource transfers to poor countries from rich countries are needed if the world wants to attain its Millennium Developmental Goals, South African President Thabo Mbeki told the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York late on Tuesday.
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/ 26 September 2007
Film producer Johan Heyns (58) was in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Fourways north of Johannesburg after being shot in the pelvis at his Bryanston home on Sunday night. ”He was already brushing his teeth when he saw a man in a red shirt with him in the bathroom,” said his wife, Sue Heyns.
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/ 25 September 2007
Young people must be taught how to resolve conflict in a non-violent way, the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders (Nicro) said on Tuesday. The country was presently gripped by a wave of teenage violence ”which defied any reason”, the institute said.
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/ 25 September 2007
The government is committed to meeting its target of eradicating the bucket-toilet system in all formal settlements established before 1994, it said on Tuesday. To ensure this deadline was met an amount of R1,6-billion had been made available ”to provide better and more acceptable sanitation for all”.
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/ 25 September 2007
Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata will stand trial on Wednesday for alleged drunk driving. Motata’s case will be heard in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court. At his last appearance, the court heard that Motata was at least four times over the alcohol limit when he was arrested.
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/ 25 September 2007
A 34-year-old man raped two young girls and bought them chicken and Coke afterwards, the Grahamstown High Court heard on Tuesday. The man has pleaded not guilty to the rape and indecent assault of two girls — one who called him an uncle — near the Victoria Park Tennis Club in Port Elizabeth in January.
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/ 25 September 2007
The South African National Roads Agency Limited will implement a pilot onramp metering project on four interchanges on Gauteng’s N1 Ben Schoeman highway from Wednesday. ”With ramp metering, the traffic flow on to the freeway is controlled to prevent stop-go conditions on the freeway,” a spokesperson said.
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/ 25 September 2007
Parliamentary opposition parties were unmoved on Tuesday by the Presidency’s explanation of the suspension of National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli. Freedom Front Plus MP Willie Spies said: ”We have left [a meeting with the Presidency] with more questions than there were answers.”
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/ 25 September 2007
African countries must diversify their economies in order to fight poverty, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation said on Tuesday at the first session of a gathering of African Union trade and industry ministers, hosted by South Africa at Gallagher Estate in Midrand.
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/ 25 September 2007
Johannesburg municipal workers may go on strike next week, the South African Municipal Workers’ (Samwu) Union announced on Tuesday. Samwu branch secretary Dumisani Langa said workers might embark on a protected strike as their issues are not being resolved. They would number at least 10 000, he said.
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/ 25 September 2007
The National Port Authority (NPA) says it can contain any oil spillages in Saldanha Bay harbour, dismissing claims by environmentalists that it did not have an adequate plan or enough equipment in place. The NPA criticised a weekend media report that said Saldanha Bay faced a potential catastrophe from oil spills.
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/ 25 September 2007
President Thabo Mbeki is about to act against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi, the Cape Argus reported on Tuesday. An inquiry into claims that Selebi had links with crime syndicates would be Mbeki’s second major step following the suspension of National Prosecuting Authority head Vusi Pikoli, the newspaper said.
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/ 25 September 2007
Research done at the University of Cape Town shows that advertisers do not pay more for a white readership, despite the findings of a South African Human Rights Commission report seven years ago. A paper published on Tuesday finds that, allowing for socioeconomic differences, there is no discounted advertising rate for a black audience.
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/ 25 September 2007
The deregulation of South Africa’s liquid-fuels industry seemed no closer on Tuesday as the Department of Minerals and Energy kicked off the first Energy Summit in Sandton, Johannesburg, which is expected to set the tone for the review of the country’s energy policies.
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/ 25 September 2007
Opposing groups from the Richtersveld community came face to face in the Land Claims Court in Cape Town on Tuesday as the court prepared to weigh up a settlement agreement. The agreement was reached in April this year between the state and the Richtersveld Sida !hub Communal Property Association.
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/ 25 September 2007
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International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Malcolm Speed described the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship, which ended on Monday, as ”a great event”. He also praised tournament director Steve Elworthy of Cricket South Africa for the way in which the tournament had been run.
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/ 25 September 2007
Seventy-million rand has been set aside by the North West Province’s health department for the improvement of nursing colleges. Department spokesperson Lesiba Molala said the department planned to increase the intake of students at the two main nursing colleges in the province.
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/ 25 September 2007
The strike in the motor-components industry is expected to come to an end on Tuesday evening when a wage agreement between the National Union of Metalworkers’ of South Africa and the Retail Motor Industry (RMI) will be signed. An RMI spokesperson said the strike will end when the two parties sign an agreement in Randburg.
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/ 25 September 2007
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has written to the Public Protector to complain about the Health Department’s advertisements placed in various newspapers last week to protest against a judge’s failure to interdict the Sunday Times over its reports on the medical records of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.