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ANC Youth League condemns Malema charges

The ANC Youth League has condemned what it terms the use of state resources to settle political scores, in reference to charges brought against its former president Julius Malema. “We were shocked by these developments as the warrant was timely executed to coincide with a long weekend,” the ANCYL said in a statement on Tuesday.

No arrest in Corrie Sanders murder case

North West police were still searching on Tuesday for the killers of former world heavyweight boxing champion Corrie Sanders. “No arrests have been made. Police are busy investigating the case,” Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said. The 46-year-old Sanders was at the Thatch Haven Country Lodge, in Brits, on Saturday celebrating his nephew’s 21st birthday when armed

Malema’s business partner to appear in Pietersburg Magistrate’s Court

Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s business partner Lesiba Gwangwa will appear in the Pietersburg (ANC name: Polokwane) Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Gwangwa, who is chief executive of On-Point Engineers, will appear on accusations of tender fraud with other Limpopo businessmen and government officials. According to a City Press report, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela

15 000 expected at Malema night vigil

More than 15,000 people are expected to attend a night vigil on Tuesday for expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema ahead of his corruption trial, The Sowetan reported. Limpopo ANCYL spokesman Klaas Mabunda told the newspaper it had arranged buses to take members and Malema supporters to the night vigil. “I can confirm that

Death toll rising from Coloured gangs in Cape Town

Initiations into gangs and the release of gang members from prison may be causing a surge of shootings in Cape Town, it was reported on Tuesday. The Cape Times reported that at least nine men had been killed in apparent gang-related shootings around the city in about two months. Manenberg Community Police Forum spokesman Kader

Johannesburg official in Public Works Dept fired for receiving kickbacks

Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi fired an official for accepting a car and payments from companies doing business with the department, according to a report on Tuesday. The Star reported that Thabo Thomas Moagi became the first department of public works official to be dismissed since Nxesi made public his plans to root out corruption

Wouter Basson investigation by HPCSA to continue today

The investigation of Doctor Wouter Basson by the Health Professionals’ Council of South Africa is expected to be continuing today in Pretoria. Basson, a biological weapons expert, has to answer to four charges before the council, including participating in the manufacture of the drugs Mandrax and Ecstacy and that he supplied former government spies with

Anti-Islamic campaign in New York subway

Anti-Islamic advertisements will go up across New York City’s subway system next week after a federal judge ruled that the city’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority could not legally refuse to host the signs on the basis of “demeaning” language. As early as next Monday, ten NYC subway stations will showcase adverts declaring, “In any war between

‘Racism’ ends Terry’s international career

Former England Football captain John Terry has called time on his international career. He informed ‘Three Lions’ boss Roy Hodgson of his decision in a telephone call on Sunday evening. The 31 year old faces a Football Association disciplinary hearing charged with using racist language against Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand on Monday. Terry

The Great California Exodus

For decades after World War II, California was a destination for Americans in search of a better life. In many people’s minds, it was the state with more jobs, more space, more sunlight, and more opportunity. They voted with their feet, and California grew spectacularly (its population increased by 137 percent between 1960 and 2010).

Politics doesn’t pay says IKEA

Furniture firm IKEA has removed a photograph from its Russian website of people in colourful ski masks like those worn by punk band Pussy Riot, three of whose members were jailed after staging a protest against Vladimir Putin in a church. The picture, which showed four people in the masks sitting on IKEA furniture, had

South African truck drivers go on strike

South African truck drivers are now officially on strike, according to radio station RSG. Over the long weekend the were threatening to go on strike after several months of failed salary negotiations with employers, the main transport workers’ union said Sunday. The South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) has given notice of plans

Corrie Sanders: ‘just one of 40 murders a day’ in South Africa

In a country where violent deaths widely go unnoticed, South Africans have reacted with outrage and shock at Corrie Sanders’ murder on the weekend. The 46-year-old former world heavyweight boxing champion was shot in a restaurant in Brits outside Pretoria on Saturday night and died in hospital eight hours later. Sanders’ former wife Sunette said

Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closed, paintings removed

The operation began moments after the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closed Sunday evening. Men removed alarm tags from behind some of Vincent Van Gogh’s greatest masterpieces, including “Sunflowers,” “Irises” and the famously crooked “Bedroom,” and quickly pulled the paintings down from the museum’s walls. Fortunately, they were not thieves carrying out an epic heist,