Updated: 8am GMT -- 2006/10/14
Eastern Cape
Tourism board shock
Two officials suspended, two board members quit By MAYIBONGWE MAQHINA and DEON VAN DER MERWE THE Eastern Cape Tourism Board (ECTB) has suspended its chief executive officer and marketing manager after an internal audit raised questions about ten...
Zuma clueless about HIV/Aids — Achmat
Former Deputy President ‘not interested’ in national Aids council By ALISON STENT JACOB Zuma was clueless about HIV/Aids and not particularly interested in the SA National Aids Council (Sanac) when he headed it, says Zackie Achmat, founder and...
MARINE MARVEL
National Ports Authority’s Zethu Mkhondo looks on as Siani Tinley of the East London Aquarium and the NSRI’s Leonard Wallis put a turtle through its paces at the aquarium yesterday. National Marine Week gets off to a running start today with a f...
The Big Question
Has Herschelle Gibbs brought shame to South Africa? Jacques Welgemoed Mlondleni No, Herschelle Gibbs made South Africa proud because he told the truth. Gibbs can go on with his game because the secret is out and the burden is relieved. The sha...
PW Botha in hospital
FORMER president PW Botha was admitted to the George Medi-Clinic yesterday, hospital manager George Schutte has confirmed. “Mr Botha has been admitted,” he said. ”At this point it’s a routine checkup, so I’m not 100 percent sure of what the outc...
Appeal to Deputy President for skills
By SABELO NDLANGISA DEPUTY President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka yesterday heard that national government interventions in municipalities had not borne fruit. Speaking at a municipal Imbizo attended by the Deputy President in Queenstown, Chris Hani Dis...
Chintsa magic at work
Rolling stone comes to rest in East Cape By TOM MAPHAM Suburbs Reporter IN a village in Switzerland, Pete Meier, 49, is known as the man who went on holiday and never came back – in Chintsa, he is the “swearing-Swiss” who arrived on vacation and n...
Urgent action to stop air service
Papers claim Ntinga contract was reckless By DEON VAN DER MERWE THE MEC for Transport “acted recklessly and with total disregard to the Licensing Act and Civil Aviation regulations”, when he granted the Bhisho-Mthatha air link contract to Ntinga...
