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/ 3 February 2010
Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu’s comments on the nationalisation of mines are "a declaration of war", Sasco says.
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/ 2 February 2010
Nationalisation of SA’s mines is not government policy, although there is healthy debate on the issue, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu says.
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/ 17 September 2009
South Africa has vowed to clamp down on illegal mining operations, which have increased on the back of higher metals prices.
Mining companies have a responsibility to plough back profits into the communities in which they operate, minister Susan Shabangu said on Sunday.
Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu expressed shock and deep regret at the loss of nine lives at Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg operations
A total of 277 workers died in SA mines in the past year, almost half of them in illegal operations, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu says.
SA’s mining industry has been hard hit by lower commodity prices due to the global economic downturn, Minister of Minerals Susan Shabangu says.
Cosatu on Tuesday said it was ”shocked and dismayed” by the news of the deaths of 36 illegal miners.
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/ 22 November 2008
Nothing will be left to chance concerning security issues at the Confederations Cup and Soccer World Cup, a minister said on Saturday.
AfriForum on Wednesday laid a charge of hate speech with the South African Human Rights Commission against the Congress of South African Trade Unions’s Solly Phetoe in his personal capacity after his comments following a shooting in the North West.
Criminal elements were behind xenophobic violence in Alexandra, Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Thursday. Speaking to journalists after a meeting with community and provincial leaders, she said not only foreign nationals were attacked, but South Africans were also forced out of their houses.
The Law Society of South Africa on Friday called for an overhaul of the justice system to deal with crime in the country. Co-chairpersons Vincent Saldahna and CP Fourie said the scourge of crime needed a more holistic and serious solution, which included the proper training of police officers.
The recent shoot-to-kill comments by a deputy minister display disrespect for the country’s Constitution, the Wits Centre for Applied Legal Studies said on Friday. The centre also deplored African National Congress president Jacob Zuma’s support for the remarks by Deputy Minister of Safety and Security Susan Shabangu.
The African National Congress (ANC) backs the call for police to use lethal force should their lives or those of the public be in imminent danger, party president Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. Addressing a Chambers of Commerce and Industry of South Africa conference, Zuma said: ”In this war against crime, we reiterate that our laws must bite.
Deputy Safety and Security Minister Susan Shabangu’s controversial ”shoot to kill” comment has received African National Congress president Jacob Zuma’s backing. He was speaking at the KwaZulu-Natal Institute of Local Government and Traditional Leadership’s fund-raising gala dinner on Friday night
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma on Friday said that the issue of bail for those accused of rape and murder needs to be debated. Speaking at the launch of the KwaZulu-Natal Institute of Local Government and Traditional Leadership Fundraising Summit, Zuma said: ”I don’t think we have debated the issue.”
Deputy Safety and Security Minister Susan Shabangu must be fired for her comments that police should shoot and kill criminals, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Thursday. ”Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula has no choice but to fire her with immediate effect,” DA spokesperson Dianne Kohler-Barnard said.
Deputy Minister of Safety and Security Susan Shabangu told police that they should kill criminals if they threaten police or the community, the Star reported on Thursday. ”You must kill the bastards if they threaten you or the community. You must not worry about the regulations. That is my responsibility,” Shabangu said at an anti-crime imbizo on Wednesday.
The ANC’s national executive committee elected its 28-member national working committee (NWC) on Monday. Get the complete list of NWC members here, as well as the names of the eight ANC members who will form part of the ad hoc committee to draw up a report on the arms deal.
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/ 24 November 2007
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe has been found guilty of sexual harassment by a party-appointed disciplinary committee, the ANC said on Friday. Goniwe was charged with abuse of office by trying to obtain sexual favours from parliamentary intern Nomawele Njongo on October 25 last year.