Updated: 8am GMT -- 2005/08/05
SouthAfrica
UDM in serious leadership crisis
By Bongani Siqoko THE UNITED Democratic Movement is facing its worst ever leadership crisis. Prominent leaders could drag the party and its president into court over "forced resignations". The Daily Dispatch can today exclusively reveal that UDM pre...
Moodley gets life term for Leigh's murder
Donovan Moodley will spend at least 25 years behind bars after he was sentenced yesterday for the kidnapping and murder of Johannesburg student Leigh Matthews. Judge Joop Labuschagne sentenced Moodley, 25, in the Johannesburg High Court to life i...
Travelgate: PAC duo plan to testify
Motsoko Pheko, the Pan Africanist Congress leader, will attend the next round of Travelgate liquidation hearings following the authorisation of a warrant for his arrest. A Cape Town magistrate authorised the warrant after the PAC leader and his...
Why SA must aim at 6% growth
South Africa's current four percent economic growth rate is insufficient for the country's development needs, according to Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. Up from three percent in the past decade, the new rate would still not allow for the doublin...
Call for half the workforce to be women
Delivering her maiden speech as deputy president yesterday, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka challenge opposition parties to ensure that women were adequately represented among their ranks and the private sector to ensure that women accounted for 50 percent o...
66000 pupils stranded by bus strike
ABOUT 125 Gauteng bus operators had not reported for work yesterday, leaving 66000 pupils stranded for a second day, said the South African Bus Operators Association (Saboa). The operators, who are demanding 35 cents per kilometre for each c...
Conditions essential to Harare loan - SA opposition
Opposition parties have strongly rejected the idea of a South African loan to Zimbabwe without any conditions attached. "Now that Cabinet in principle has given a 'thumbs up' for South African taxpayers' money to be given to Zimbabwe, it is up to...
Court challenge to Oilgate report
THE Cabinet's unconditional endorsement of Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana's report into the so-called "Oilgate" scandal came as no surprise, the Democratic Alliance said yesterday. "While it is critical that Chapter Nine institutions, such as ...
Politics in Brief
A total of 131 prisoners released on a special remission of sentence 10 weeks ago have been rearrested, Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour told guests at a prayer service in Soweto yesterday. "These are people who again fell foul of t...
