South Africa

No further arrests have been made in connection with the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble, police said on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said she could not say whether there had been any new developments in the case since the arrest last week of Glenn Agliotti.

The government will investigate the conduct of the South African Post Office board and management after the suspension of CEO Khutso Mampeule. Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said she has ”set in motion processes to this effect”.

Police were following ”good leads” on Tuesday on the whereabouts of a 29-year-old Mozambican former soldier who escaped from Pretoria’s C-Max prison. ”We haven’t found him yet. We are still following leads, but we have good leads,” investigating officer Captain Arnold Boonsthra said on Tuesday morning.

Assets have been seized from three people arrested in connection with a R25-million trucking scam, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Monday. ”Assets seized by the asset forfeiture unit include property, three vehicles, a boat [rubber duck] with carriage, a 9mm firearm and three bank accounts,” said NPA spokesperson Lucinda Moonieya.

European Ryder Cup player Lee Westwood will be one of the biggest stars on local fairways in December when he makes his debut in the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club near Malelane. Westwood is a member of Ian Woosnam’s victorious European Ryder Cup team and winner of 25 titles worldwide.

Identity theft is on the increase in South Africa, Alexander Forbes risk and insurance services said on Monday. ”In South Africa, identity fraud and theft is becoming increasingly sophisticated, with hackers accessing personal details of their victims over the internet,” said spokesperson Peter Olyott.

A task team will be set up to investigate the management at Pretoria’s C-Max prison, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour said on Monday. Balfour spoke to the South African Broadcasting Corporation after a Mozambican national, Annanias Mathe (29), escaped from the country’s most secure prison on Saturday night.

Zimbabwe submitted its first human rights report in eight years to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, ZimOnline reported on Monday. It said the document apparently entailed a vehement denial of human rights violations. Zimbabwe had, since 1998, failed to comply with a charter requiring members to submit yearly human rights reports.

The first MTN one-day international between South Africa and India at the Wanderers was officially called off at 6.30 pm on Sunday because of persistent rain. About 30 000 people had braved the elements, hoping to see some action. It was overcast in the morning, but rain started falling just before the toss at two o’clock, and the covers were brought on.

Ballerina Penelope Thloloe, who ”survived” being the first black student at South Africa’s national arts school, now devotes her energy passing on her skills to children in Alexandra. Thloloe is a study in concentration as she trains students in the sprawling black township abutting Johannesburg’s chic Sandton quarter, where she still lives.

South African Rugby would have to spend more than R20-million to get rid of Springbok coach Jake White, Beeld newspaper reported on Monday. SA Rugby president Oregan Hoskins had denied rumours that White may be fired before the end of the South African team’s tour of Europe.

Petroleum jelly apparently played a key role in the first escape from Pretoria’s C-Max prison on Saturday night, media reports said on Monday. Annanias Mathe appeared to have stripped and covered his entire body with petroleum jelly to climb out of a window measuring 20cm x 60cm.

Suspended South African Post Office CEO Khutso Mampeule says he is the victim of a ”smear campaign” by members of his board. Mampeule was suspended with full pay on Friday at a meeting of the Post Office’s board, pending the outcome of a disciplinary case against him.

Journalists should separate facts from opinion, African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma told editors on Sunday night — but wouldn’t tell them whether their perception that he wanted to be ANC president was correct. Zuma told the South African National Editors’ Forum that the ”blurring of lines” between facts and opinion led to a dangerous form of advocacy journalism.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) lashed out at the ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Sunday for not discussing the friendship between police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi and arrested businessman Glenn Agliotti at its top-level meeting over the weekend.

Further Travelgate fraud amounting to R19-million was blocked from being investigated months before he was fired, Parliament’s former chief finance officer Harry Charlton has said, the Sunday Tribune reported. The latest fraud, Charlton said in a sworn affidavit, implicated a number of South Africa’s highest ranking officials.