http://www.newstin.com/us/THABO_MBEKI Global Social News Platform Copyright © 2006 I2S a.s. Copyright © 2006 I2S a.s. http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57497934 IF IT wasn't so misguided there'd be something almost touching about Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin's vision for a vastly expanded state-owned industrial empire. It will, he says, thrive on massive infrastructure spending by the state in the next two decades. Fri, 16 May 2008 07:25:30 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57497934 2008-05-16T07:25:30Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57521550 SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki last week confronted President Robert Mugabe on post-election violence after a probe team he sent to Zimbabwe uncovered shocking evidence of largely state-sponsored brutality against opposition supporters in rural areas. Fri, 16 May 2008 09:56:07 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57521550 2008-05-16T09:56:07Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57492850 Posted to the web 16 May 2008 Karima Brown Johannesburg AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma's corruption trial will not formally start on August 4, but his supporters plan to bring Pietermaritzburg to a halt in solidarity when he appears in the high court for a postponement. Zuma... Fri, 16 May 2008 06:42:43 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57492850 2008-05-16T06:42:43Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57493985 Posted to the web 16 May 2008 Simon Barber Johannesburg THE attempt to extract $400bn in reparations for apartheid from about 50 multinational corporations via the US courts, over the strenuous objections of the South African government, won a reprieve this week. The US Supreme Court was expected... Fri, 16 May 2008 06:42:49 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57493985 2008-05-16T06:42:49Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57510915 In response to the recent extract from William Gumede's book "Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC" published by Zed Books (http://zedbooks.co.uk), Patrick Bond suggests that there is a need to go beyond the individual reasons and look at the structural forces that have informed... Fri, 16 May 2008 08:43:18 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57510915 2008-05-16T08:43:18Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57504168 Police say live ammunition has been fired at them in Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, where xenophobic violence broke out this week in the wake of that at Alexandra. Metro police spokesperson, Wayne Minnaar, says residents fired at police and threw stones at them during clashes last night.... Fri, 16 May 2008 07:16:50 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57504168 2008-05-16T07:16:50Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57483338 President Thabo Mbeki says Africa cannot continue to count on food aid and must instead rely on its own resources. Mbeki was speaking yesterday after a meeting with the President of the African Development Bank (ADB), Donald Kaberuka, in Maputo where the bank held its annual meeting. Fri, 16 May 2008 04:00:18 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57483338 2008-05-16T04:00:18Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57491707 Posted to the web 16 May 2008 Hopewell Radebe Johannesburg AN INDEX of 21 rich states ranking their commitment to help African states shows Sweden, Ireland and Britain are the leading contributors to development on the continent. The Washington-based Centre for Global Development said in its... Fri, 16 May 2008 06:17:07 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57491707 2008-05-16T06:17:07Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57418788 South Africa's aspiring president, Jacob Zuma, will go to court in August to try to get his corruption case dismissed. Zuma is president of the ruling African National Congress and is likely to succeed Thabo Mbeki as president of the country next year. But he has been charged with fraud,... Thu, 15 May 2008 17:28:27 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57418788 2008-05-15T17:28:27Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57415478 President Thabo Mbeki has withdrawn his opposing affidavit in a case where the South African Security Forces Union (Sasfu) and three individual people who are HIV positive are challenging the South African National Defence Force's policies on HIV. Mbeki was the forth respondent after the SANDF,... Thu, 15 May 2008 16:30:44 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57415478 2008-05-15T16:30:44Z