Five things you need to know about SA today
1. Snuki Zikalala, the SABC’s head of news and current affairs (and seen as in the Thabo Mbeki camp), has got the heave-ho as the SABC board has announced that it will not renew his contract at the end of the month. Journalist Phil Molefe is to take over from Zikalala in an acting capacity from May 1 while they seek a replacement.
2. Here’s an interesting one from MoneyWeb: SA’s CDBs still command reasonably high office rentals, which means there’s demand in the city centres despite some of them (like Joburg and Durban) being pretty dodgy. (Joburg, however, has the highest office vacancy rates of the major cities in SA). Interestingly, it’s more expensive to rent an office at Cape Town’s Waterfront (R180/m2) than in Sandton (R166/m2) in Joburg. Read the story here.
3. It was the coloured vote that gave the DA the decisive leverage needed to clinch its outright majority in the Western Cape, says IOL, with most voters in Mitchells Plain, Ravensmead, Belhar and Athlone voting for the DA. Read the story here.
4. The ANC’s national executive committee is to decide on the premiers in the eight provinces it controls at a meeting tomorrow, says The Times. The announcements should be made at the weekend and there looks set to be changes in six of the eight provinces. Click here to read the full story.
5. And if you live on the country’s east coast and have been wondering why there seem to be so many moths around, here the explanation courtesy of the Daily dispatch: the lack of rain this summer. Because the leaves have not been cooled down during the day by rain, adult moths have been waiting till after dark to lay their eggs in the cooler temperatures and then they spot that light on in your kitchen… Read the story here.
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