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/ 24 October 2003
The South African labour market is bracing itself for three strikes — mainly about wages. One of these, by workers at supermarket chain Shoprite Checkers and its subsidiaries, started on Thursday this week. Shoprite workers, represented by the Saccawu, are in dispute over the hours their casual staff are expected to work.
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/ 22 October 2003
39 years after David Pooe, Enos Mabuza and Richard Maponya founded the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) in Orland, it is still a black organisation trying to find its feet in a white-dominated economy. But the chasm within it and other organised business bodies is no longer as much about colour as it is about the bottom line.
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/ 21 October 2003
Fans of Des Backos can rest assured that the soccer star of the 1970s has not changed much. The man who caused so much joy to his fans by running rings around his opponents still has ”mood-enhancing” as part of his repertoire — he runs a liquor store.
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/ 20 October 2003
A major privatisation and black economic empowerment deal has suffered a blow as a result of this week’s Constitutional Court ruling that the Richtersveld community has a legitimate claim to the land where a government-owned company, Alexkor, was prospecting for diamonds.
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/ 11 October 2003
The Public Service Commission report that recommends the head of the police secretariat be removed from his post because of incompetence is not for public consumption, says Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula. Nqakula said that the report is ”an internal matter”
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/ 10 October 2003
Some of our Justice System’s most watershed and exciting decisions have ended up as mere legal jargon that Joe Average could not be bothered with, unless he found himself in a sticky situation. That is why this column will start off by celebrating decisions that the taxi passenger, the law professor and the quadriplegic should all be able to relate to, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo.
Gauteng township schoolchildren hoping to study music formally could miss out because some white teachers refuse to be redeployed to the townships. The affected schools are part of the education department’s Magnet Schools project. The project aims to offer schools lessons in subjects generally denied black learners, such as formal art education.
The SABC has used the threat of legal action to attempt to silence a woman who complained about material shown on one of the national broadcaster’s channels.
The woman, a mother of two, filed a complaint with the SABC after her ex-husband, who was shown on 3-Talk, made what she considered to be false accusations about child custody.
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/ 28 September 2003
”The challenge we are still facing is that we still have elements within our communities who are protecting criminals,” said Soweto CPF Area Board spokesperson Sechaba Khumalo. ”Some parents are not playing their part and glorify crime by saying that their children baya phanda [they are eking a living].
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/ 19 September 2003
Sibongile Khumalo’s birthday falls on Heritage Day, September 24. Khumalo says there is no truth to the rumour that the coincidence has anything to do with her passion for South Africa’s music legacy, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.