Updated: 8am GMT -- 2005/04/08
SouthAfrica
32-car pile-up blocks traffic
JOHANNESBURG — Twelve people were injured in a 32-car pile-up between the N3 and the Gillooly interchange yesterday morning. Chief Superintendent Wilfred Kgasago, of the Ekurhuleni metro police, said the accident happened when the brakes of a tr...
Free State premier sacks ANC chairman in executive council reshuffle
BLOEMFONTEIN — Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff axed two MECs yesterday, including the provincial chairman of the ANC, Ace Magashule. Magashule, MEC for Agriculture, and Benny Malakoane, MEC for Tourism, Environment and Economic Affairs, will...
Ivorians may have election in October
MIDRAND — Four days of intense negotiations involving President Thabo Mbeki and political leaders from Ivory Coast could lead to an election in the troubled west African country in October, the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) was told yesterday. Iv...
Language vital for identity says Mbeki
CAPE TOWN — African languages were not spoken enough in schools, Parliament, provincial legislatures, municipalities and other public and private institutions, President Thabo Mbeki said yesterday. “This is one of the pressing issues that our t...
Poll fell short of SADC standards says group
CAPE TOWN — Based on the present evidence and analysis of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) guidelines, Zimbabwe’s March 31 elections cannot be pronounced free and fair without qualification, an SA observer consortium says. The...
State bid to reopen Shaik case rejected
DURBAN — Judge Hillary Squires turned down a late application by the state to reopen its case in the Durban High Court yesterday, thereby effectively ending the Schabir Shaik trial which started in October. He adjourned proceedings until Monday, ...
SA urged to return four ‘stolen’ gorillas
PRETORIA — Four gorillas smuggled to Malaysia in 2002 were yesterday at the centre of conflicting views in the zoological community as to where they rightly belong. The South African government was asked to return the four gorillas being housed a...
Politics in brief
THE plight of farm workers will again come under the spotlight this year as many still face evictions and battle with poor wages, Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Thoko Didiza said during her budget vote in the National Assembly yesterda...
