THE Constitutional Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in its hearing on the New National Party’s challenge to the government ruling that only voters with bar-coded identity books can vote in the June election. The judgment is pending the presentation of supporting documents. The NNP, which took its case to the Constitutional Court after losing its […]
MPUMALANGA housing deputy director-general Steve Ngwenya has resigned to take up a post with the Independent Electoral Commission, MEC Craig Padayachee said on Tuesday. Addressing the provincial portfolio committee on housing and local government, Padayachee said Ngwenya will join the IEC as Mpumalanga’s electoral officer. Housing department spokesman Leon Mbangwa also resigned from the department […]
ABOUT 500 Mondi paper mill workers started a week of striking for a 12% pay rise on Wednesday. Mpumalanga secretary of the South African Agricultural Plantation and Allied Workers’ Union, Lawrence Mooi, said the union is not prepared to back down on its demands. Mondi general manager Colin Harvett rejected the union’s 12% across-the-board increase […]
GAMING giant Tsogo Sun began construction on its first permanent Mpumalanga casino this week despite High Court litigation aimed at overturning its casino licence in Nelspruit. The move follows Moven Pic’s takeover of the rival Karos Hotel Group in October 1998. Karos lodged one of two separate High Court challenges against Tsogo in 1997 after […]
ALL Black winger Jonah Lomu hopes to make a comeback from injury in an invitation game on Friday. Lomu has not been able to play with the Waikato Chiefs Super 12 team and now hopes to play with the Bay of Plenty Steamers Invitation XV. Manager Steve Gilbert said Lomu would test his knee injury […]
SIX countries — Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Kenya, Lesotho, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia — on Wednesday formally empowered an international Task Force to fight wildlife crime in Africa. Referred to by many as “African Interpol” for wildlife and the first of its kind in the world, the Task Force will have its headquarters at the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 2.00pm. THE WESTERN Stormers are under pressure to perform after fielding a second-string team against the Otago Highlanders and must have a good night against ACT Brumbies in their Super 12 match on Friday. Only a victory over the Brumbies at Bruce Stadium in Canberra will vindicate Coach Alan Solomons’s […]
THE last Senegalese soldiers in Guinea-Bissau left on Monday night for home, ending a 10-month deployment in the West African country where they defended the government against an army rebellion. The pull-out was confirmed by the Senegalese armed forces command, which said in a communique that the “final elements” of the Senegalese contingent would be […]
THE Angolan government rejected on Wednesday an initiative by Burkina Faso President Blaise Campaore to invite Unita rebels to the next summit of the Organization of African Unity. It said the move would contravene United Nations sanctions imposed against Unita.Campaore, who is also OAU chairman, last week invited Unita rebels and those fighting in the […]
THE British government, working with Penal Reform International, has started giving food to thousands of starving prisoners in Malawi’s 23 jails, a British embassy official said on Wednesday. Marylyn Bennet said Britain is helping with plans to establish prison farms to ensure a sustainable food supply in jails. Serious food shortages have been blamed on […]