Updated: 8am GMT -- 2005/03/03
SouthAfrica
Government dismisses US abuse report
CAPE TOWN - Government has dismissed the 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, compiled by the United States State Department, as presumptuous in the extreme regarding South Africa. Briefing the media after cabinet's fortnightly meeting ...
Rural development needed to curb dagga
PRETORIA - Sustainable development was needed in rural South Africa to discourage the cultivation of dagga, the International Narcotics Control Board said in its 2004 report, released yesterday. Dagga remained the major drug of concern throughout ...
Transformation in sport by 2010 - Stofile
CAPE TOWN - Racial transformation in South Africa's national and provincial sports teams should be completed by 2010 and the country did not want a permanent state of transition in sport, Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile said yesterday. Speaking...
Mabandla slated for ignoring Boesak queries
CAPE TOWN - The Democratic Alliance has strongly criticised Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla's decision not to answer parliamentary questions about the presidential pardon granted to fraudster and controversial cleric Allan Boesak. DA spokespers...
Churches call for action after insult to Tutu
JOHANNESBURG - The South African Council of Churches (SACC) has asked the ANC to act against a party MP who called Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu's views on transformation "treasonous". The SACC's national executive committee yesterday expressed...
No intention of defrauding taxman - Shaik
DURBAN - Fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik said yesterday it was never his intention to defraud the taxman despite gaining substantial benefits from the write-off of R1,2 million as development costs from his company's 1999 annual financia...
Zimbabwe elections already rigged says DP's Leon
CAPE TOWN - The March 31 parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe have already been rigged, South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon told a meeting of liberals and democrats of the European Parliament yesterday. S...
Mbeki, Zuma slam concerns over Zim poll
CAPE TOWN - Nobody in Zimbabwe is likely to act in a way that will prevent free and fair elections being held in that country on March 31, president Thabo Mbeki said yesterday. Speaking at Tuynhuys after talks with outgoing Namibian president Sa...
