April 2005
Up one levelApril 2005 news items are stored here.
SADC team probes claims of election fraud
2005-04-03. Harare and Bulawayo - A South African-led mission of southern African election observers says it is "seriously" investigating opposition evidence of "major" and "tangible" vote-rigging in Thursday's parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe.
SA mission split over poll finding
2005-04-04. Harare: A major row has broken out among political parties in the SA parliamentary observer mission to Zimbabwe over the mission's assessment of Thursday's parliamentary elections.
Mission lashes out at observers
2005-04-04. Johannesburg - The South African Parliamentary Observer Mission to Zimbabwe has recommended that parliament severely reprimand two of its members for undermining its mandate, SABC news reported on Sunday.
ANC accused of 'bully-boy' tactics on Zim elections
2005-04-05. Independent Democrats claim decision to deem poll free and fair was never in doubt .
Storm over Manuel's R18bn cash pile
2005-04-06. Cape Town - Government is sitting on an extra R18.2-billion in cash after last year's spectacular revenue overrun, it emerged yesterday, and is facing demands that it either spend it on social upliftment or hand it back to taxpayers.
Minister will not debate AIDS crisis with DA
2005-04-11. CAPE TOWN: Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has spurned Democratic Alliance (DA) moves to force her into a debate into what the party considers government's failure to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
HIV-women to sue De Lille
2005-04-11. The leader of the Independent Democrats, Patricia de Lille, said that she had confidence that the South African legal system will prove her innocence in a civil case against her by three HIV-positive women.
