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A meeting of the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) was under way on Friday to consider an allegation levelled against Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
The Daihatsu Terios is like the middle child who has to work extra hard all the time.
President Thabo Mbeki insisted this week that he had no prior warning of xenophobic violence, but he was flatly contradicted by a group of Congolese and Rwandan refugees in Cape Town.
Cape Judge President John Hlophe will face a tough, courtroom-style interrogation by the disciplinary committee of the Judical Service Commission.
The chair of Parliament’s justice committee has called for the Judicial Service Commission to consider opening to the public some of its hearings on the conduct of Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
A man who doused a young woman with petrol and another who set her alight in 2006 were convicted of murder in the Cape High Court on Thursday.
A woman sitting on a basket quietly stirs a pan of spinach on a paraffin stove. Children run around noisily between plastic bags, suitcases, blankets and mattresses.
The drunken-driving charge against Tony Yengeni, former chief whip of the African National Congress, is linked to the criminal case involving the former commander of the Goodwood police station, Siphiwo Hewana, the Goodwood Magistrate’s Court heard.
The rising cost of food is a time bomb that could result in uprisings, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma told the World Economic Forum on Africa on Thursday.
Tensions that triggered a backlash against foreigners last month are likely to simmer for years as South Africa’s poor domestic skills base forces it to rely on migrant labour.
Reintegration of displaced xenophobia victims into the communities where they come from is the government’s priority, Cabinet ministers and provincial politicians said on Wednesday.
About 142 court cases linked to xenophobic violence have been opened countrywide, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday. Spokesperson Tlali Tlali said 102 of these were in Gauteng. Provincial police liaison officers approached said none of the 142 cases had reached the conviction stage yet.
There is much to lament about with the latest violence in South Africa. We Africans have been hijacked by our worst selves and this has made us paranoid and unable to use our best people to rebuild nations. The insanities of a few criminal Nigerians have come to dominate our perceptions of that country, however unfairly.
There were a few tense moments on Monday when a crowd of several hundred refugees marched to Parliament to air their grievances over the recent xenophobic violence. After being addressed by, among others, Zackie Achmat of the Treatment Action Campaign, sections of the crowd surged towards a small line of police officers outside the main gates of Parliament.
Authorities began setting up tents at displacement sites in Johannesburg on Saturday to shelter some of the thousands of foreigners who fled a recent wave of xenophobic attacks. The death toll from the attacks across South Africa has risen to 62, with 670 injured, said national police spokesperson Sally de Beer.
President Thabo Mbeki has brushed off criticism that he failed to show compassion by not visiting areas affected by violent attacks against foreigners around the country, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Thursday.
Sasol on Wednesday announced the 50 black groups which will share in its R28-billion black economic empowerment (BEE) Inzalo transaction. They included energy and mining women’s groups, Sasol business suppliers, customers, franchisees and trade union investment companies, groups conducting skills and community upliftment projects, and professional associations.
The recent xenophobic violence cannot be attributed to a single factor and is not necessarily the work of a so-called ”third force”, government spokesperson Themba Maseko said on Thursday. ”In some cases, there is some evidence of copy-cat activities in which criminals took advantage of the news story to conduct criminal acts,” he said.
The government has denied deciding to set up refugee camps for foreigners displaced by xenophobic violence. Reports suggesting such a move were ”baseless and therefore not true”, it said on Wednesday. ”The government has noted with concern media reports that the Cabinet has taken a decision to establish refugee camps,” a statement said.
South Africa’s swim stars are set to gather in Cape Town this weekend for the final national swimming camp in home waters before they take up the challenge in a series of international galas prior to competing at the Beijing Olympic Games in August.
On a vast rubbish-strewn field in a mining area east of Johannesburg, hundreds of destitute Africans who have fled their makeshift homes in nearby slums shiver in the morning cold. The land, covered in white tents donated by aid groups, resembles the all-too-familiar refugee camps seen across this violence-hit continent.
The South African government came under pressure on Monday to deal with the aftermath of deadly anti-foreigner violence that has displaced an estimated 35Â 000 people. As thousands headed for the borders, a growing humanitarian crisis was developing domestically with crowds of foreigners sheltering at police stations.
The National Association of Democratic Lawyers called on the government on Monday to appoint a commission of inquiry into the xenophobic violence and offer financial relief to victims. The organisation added that the state should ”offer structural, financial, psychological and any other appropriate relief to all the victims of this violence”.
Mozambique has received nearly 20Â 000 citizens fleeing South Africa, said Deputy Foreign Minister Henrique Banze, adding that the government there had set up three reception centres around the capital Maputo. He denied reports that the Mozambican government had declared a state of emergency.
There is a free concert in Johannesburg on Sunday. It is Africa Day and leading artists from across the continent will perform live.
Thousands of people marched through Johannesburg on Saturday, calling for an end to the violence that has killed at least 50 African migrants and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. People in Hillbrow, home to many African immigrants, cheered the march, which was organised by churches and labour unions.
South Africa’s security chief on Friday accused rightwingers linked to the former apartheid government of fanning xenophobic violence that has spread to Cape Town, the second largest city and tourist centre. At least 42 people have been killed and thousands driven from their homes in 12 days of attacks.
The first wind farm in South Africa, which produces electricity from wind power, was switched on by Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica in Darling in the Western Cape on Friday, the Central Energy Fund said. The R75-million project is the first ”green energy” initiative in the country to produce electricity from wind power on a commercial basis.
Cape Town’s Ella Joyce Buckley has turned South African folk music on its head with her debut album, writes Lloyd Gedye.
Anti-immigrant violence has spread to Cape Town, where mobs attacked Somalis and Zimbabweans and looted their homes and shops, police said on Friday. Hundreds of African migrants were evacuated overnight from a squatter camp near Cape Town, the hub of South Africa’s prized tourism industry.
A Somali community in Johannesburg on Thursday accused police of firing live ammunition at its members as more xenophobic attacks were reported in Gauteng and former Cabinet minister Kader Asmal questioned claims of ‘third force’ involvement in the attacks.