Author: staff
Late-night jaunts, shady rendezvous with a string of women, and a secret gun may prove the undoing of veteran detective Michael Pule Tau – allegedly a central figure in a hit squad linked to the slaying of Vereeniging engineer Armand Swart.
The man who participated in the murder of his boss, the illegal steroids dealer Brian Wainstein, said he harboured a lot of anger towards him, particularly after he had berated him at one of actor and “Governator” Arnold Schwarzenegger’s strongman events in South Africa.
The State is yet to verify the origin of 105 bank cards allegedly found in the possession of a Cato Manor constable who was arrested after a bank card belonging to the parent of an 11-year-old Malvern girl who died during a hijacking incident was found in his belongings.
Nick Riley, Investec’s investment banking chief, says South Africa needs to take advantage of the opportunity provided by the global monetary easing cycle to kickstart economic growth or risk seeing foreign investment flow to other emerging markets.
Chinese cars are facing difficulties in finding buyers in Europe. Imported cars, many of which are electric vehicles, are piling up at European ports, with some spending up to 18 months in car parks as manufacturers struggle to get them onto driveways.
A week after the City of Cape Town evicted a family of six, including a wheelchair-bound man, who were unlawfully occupying a council flat in Hanover Park, residents, community activists and members of the National Coloured Congress (NCC) rallied around to get the family a temporary home.
The former minister is described as forthright, upstanding and respected by even those he disagreed with – of which there were a few. Mboweni is hailed for the enormous impact he had both in the public and private sector in SA. Ahmed Areff reflects.
The ANC has relieved national executive committee member and former deputy minister Obed Bapela of his duties as deputy chairperson and member of the NEC sub-committee on international relations for not toeing the party line on Morocco and Western Sahara.
Eskom estimates that the installed capacity of privately owned solar in SA reached 6.1GW in September – equal to the power that would be shed under stage 6 load shedding. However, there was a massive slowdown in new installations in the last year.
The Supreme Court of Appeal is set to hear Nandipha Magudumana’s appeal against the dismissal of her challenge to what she says was her “apprehension, arrest and abduction in Tanzania and subsequent transportation to South Africa” in November.