Apparent intimidation and threats to witnesses are the latest snags in the pursuit of a fraud and corruption case against former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede.
Damaged sheets of corrugated iron were stacked in bundles as residents of Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban attempted to recover after a fire that destroyed more than 1,000 homes.
Nelson Mandela - Nelson Mandela - Anti-Apartheid, Imprisonment, Activist: From 1964 to 1982 Mandela was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town. He was subsequently kept at the maximum-security Pollsmoor Prison until 1988, when, after being treated for tuberculosis, he was transferred to Victor Verster Prison near Paarl. The South African government periodically made conditional offers of freedom to Mandela, most notably in 1976, on the condition that he recognize the newly independent and highly controversial status of the Transkei Bantustan and agree to reside there. An offer made in 1985 required that he renounce the use of violence. Mandela refused both offers, the second on the premise that only
There is speculation that the latest bout of torching of trucks is a deliberate effort to coincide with the annual Southern African Transport Conference.