JOHANNESBURG – Veteran peace campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been awarded $1m (£620,000) by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation for “speaking truth to power”. The London-based Foundation called the cleric “one of Africa’s great voices for justice, freedom, democracy and responsible, responsive government”. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his campaign against apartheid….
ABIDJAN – A key ally of Ivory Coast’s former President Laurent Gbagbo is to go on trial in Abidjan, in the first case of those accused over the 2010-11 post-election violence. General Dogbo Ble was the commander of the Republican Guard under Mr Gbagbo. He and several other security officials are accused of murdering a…
CAIRO – The last prime minister to serve under ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was referred to trial on corruption charges by an investigative judge, officials said. The charges against Ahmed Shafik, the runner-up in Egypt’s presidential election, arise from allegations made against him while he served as the nation’s civil aviation minister under Mubarak….
JOHANNESBURG – Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema will no longer address Implats workers in Rustenburg on Thursday, for fear of being arrested, the Friends of the Youth League said. “It has come to our attention that members of the SA [Police Service] were instructed by a politician to arrest us, since the mine…
JOHANNESBURG – South African ANC renegade Julius Malema was charged with money laundering yesterday in a high-profile corruption case his supporters say is part of a political plot to silence president Jacob Zuma’s most vocal critic. The trial of Malema, who has backed wildcat miners’ strikes and has been pushing for nationalisation of the mines,…
TRIPOLI – A newly formed unit of the Libyan Army has carried out nonviolent raids on rogue militia positions in and around Tripoli as part of a government ultimatum issued over the weekend. Armed groups must either align themselves with the country’s military or disperse, a government spokesman said Tuesday. The “National Mobile Force” is…
JOHANNESBURG – ANC rebel Julius Malema, South African president Jacob Zuma’s most prominent critic and an advocate of mining nationalisation, appears in court, today on corruption charges that his supporters say are politically motivated. Police said they would close roads around the courthouse in Polokwane, the provincial capital of Malema’s native Limpopo, 350 kilometres north…
POLOKWANE – Expelled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema was granted bail of R10,000 by the Polokwane Regional Court. Malema was officially charged with money-laundering, for “receiving proceeds from unlawful activities”. The affidavit he made in support of his application for bail was not read out in court. The case was postponed to November 30.Malema…
POLOKWANE – Four Polokwane businessmen handed themselves over to the anti-corruption task team on Tuesday, the Hawks confirmed. “They are going to appear in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court today on charges of fraud, corruption and money-laundering,” said spokesman McIntosh Polela. “This relates to government money running into tens of millions of rands.” Polela said the…
JOHANNESBURG – The taxman has added to former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema’s mounting troubles. Last week, the SA Revenue Service (Sars) obtained a R16m judgment against Malema for unpaid taxes. Sars is about to seize property and assets belonging to the controversial politician in Gauteng and Limpopo, City Press understands. Malema did not…
