Updated: 8am GMT -- 2005/06/29

SouthAfrica

All-night vigil at Zuma's court
JOHANNESBURG - Former deputy president Jacob Zuma, who has maintained his innocence after being implicated in the Schabir Shaik trial, will appear in court for the first time today amid tight police security. Zuma will face two charges of corruptio...

Choose from various HIV treatments - Manto
CAPE TOWN - South Africans with HIV and Aids - many of whom are poor, illiterate and uneducated - should be offered an "informed choice" when discussing possible treatments with health workers, according to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang...

Mbeki pushes Ivory Coast leaders over peace
PRETORIA - President Thabo Mbeki told Ivory Coast leaders yesterday to make the "decisions necessary" to advance peace in the troubled state after a deadline for disarmament was missed. Mbeki opened peace talks with Ivory Coast President Lau...

EC netball players recovering after N1 bus accident
BLOEMFONTEIN - Survivors of the netball bus accident in the Free State at the weekend were in a stable condition yesterday, health officials said here. The bus, carrying 39 members and support staff of the Eastern Cape U19 and U17 netball tea...

Govt to deal with 'fraudsters'
JOHANNESURG - The government says it is still consulting on how best to deal with thousands of public servants implicated in the child support grants fraud scam. Out of about 85000 people captured in the nationwide anti-corruption drive, 41000 of th...

What's sauce for the goose
PRETORIA - A Cape Town man is taking the government to court over the age discrepancy on gender grounds for the receipt of a state old-age pension, says Social Development Minister Skweyiya. Apparently the man suing is under 65 and his wife ...

Three new world heritage sites in the offing
JOHANNESBURG - Three new United Nations world heritage sites in South Africa are being considered. They are the Vredefort Dome in the Free State, the Taung Skull fossil site in North West and the Makapans Valley in Limpopo. The nominations...

Mozambican to stand trial for ward murder
PRETORIA - A 30-year-old Mozambican national accused of murdering a woman in her Academic Hospital bed here in February is to stand trial in the city's regional court next month. Lui Emmanuel Sipoge made his fourth appearance in the district cou...

Newspapers 'part of ANC faction'
JOHANNESBURG - Congress of SA Trade Unions secretary-general Zwelinzima Vavi has accused certain newspapers of being "part of a faction of the African National Congress". Vavi was speaking at Constitutional Hill here yesterday, after a lecture ...

13 released offenders back in prison
JOHANNESBURG - Thirteen offenders released by the Minister of Correctional Services early in June are back in jail for offences ranging from theft to house robbery. Department spokesperson Graham Abrahams said the "reoffenders" were arrested n...

SA waits for UN report on Zim demolitions
CAPE TOWN - South Africa's High Commission in Zimbabwe was too small and as a result was unable to keep the government briefed on developments in the country, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Aziz Pahad said in Pretoria yesterday. "Our mission h...

Fake degree could be a lot of hot air
JOHANNESBURG - The fake degree business has grown so much that there is now an International Association of Fake Universities. "We the members of the International Association of Fake Universities care deeply about your educational profile and...

We will fight Hutu rebels in DRC - Pahad
CAPE TOWN - South Africa is fully prepared to take military action against Rwandan Hutu rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said yesterday. He said South Africa fully supported the European Union'...