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/ 22 January 2007
The Freedom Front Plus (FF+) intends opposing an African National Congress (ANC) plan for massive resettlement in Tshwane, it said on Monday. FF+ Tshwane councillor Cornelius Jansen van Rensburg claimed the ANC wants to build 212Â 000 low-cost houses on every council-owned park and piece of open land in Pretoria and Centurion in the next five years.
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/ 22 January 2007
Workers who work for 27 hours or less per week in the wholesale and retail industry will get a 9,7% as from February 1, said the Department of Labour on Monday. ”These are just annual wage increases and will apply to all workers whether they are based in shops in urbanised, peri-urban or rural areas,” said department spokesperson Zolisa Singaba.
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/ 22 January 2007
Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin should stop acting as the government’s spokesperson on national electricity problems as he has lost credibility, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Monday. ”… Minister Erwin neither bears sole political responsibility nor is he competent to act as the government’s spokesperson,” the DA said in a statement.
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/ 22 January 2007
Thirty-four government officials have been arrested in Mpumalanga for fraud and corruption, the provincial health and social services department said on Monday. Spokesperson Mpho Gabashane said the officials were from different departments in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng.
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/ 22 January 2007
Guinean riot police sealed off the centre of Conakry on Monday as shooting broke out in several neighbourhoods where protesters took to the streets to support a general strike. The protests, on the 13th day of the crippling strike aimed at ousting President Lansana Conte, followed several days of violence which has killed at least eight people.
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/ 22 January 2007
Anti-globalisation activists marched on Saturday through Africa’s largest slum, calling for an end to conflict and a new war on poverty at the start of a major protest against global capitalism. Nearly 5 000 delegates attending the World Social Forum trekked from Kibera, the slum featured in the 2005 film The Constant Gardner.
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/ 22 January 2007
The power failures that plunged much of South Africa into darkness last week will not hurt economic growth or cost the nation nearly as much as some have predicted, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday. Factories, mines and homes throughout Africa’s economic powerhouse lost electricity last Thursday without warning.
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/ 22 January 2007
Two car bombs ripped through a busy commercial area of central Baghdad on Monday, killing 65 people and wounding 110, the Interior Ministry said. After a relative lull in violence in the capital at the weekend, the car bombs exploded simultaneously in the Bab al-Sharji area just after midday.
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/ 22 January 2007
A man was arrested on Monday for slapping India coach Greg Chappell as he left an airport in eastern India with his cricket team, a police officer said. The incident occurred as more than two dozen demonstrators protested against the team’s arrival because no players from Orissa state were included in India’s cricket squad.
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/ 22 January 2007
A R600-million community survey to collect demographic, geographic, social and economic data was launched by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel on Monday. ”This allows the government to provide services and to plan so that we can understand the trends and patterns of our people,” Manuel said, encouraging the people polled to share information about their households and themselves.