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/ 24 October 2006
Southern African countries hope plans to boost their economies will not be hurt by negative sentiment towards Zimbabwe, the head of a regional bloc said on Monday. Lesotho Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, chair of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), said it was developing programmes that would offset any spill-over from Zimbabwe’s economic crisis.
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/ 17 October 2006
Some economic analysts say the passion for land is dying out in modern South Africa as more rural residents move to urban areas to escape the crushing poverty that contrasts sharply with much of the country’s prosperous cities. But some SA women, who met on the weekend, showed land hunger was still strong at a conference with hundreds of activists, officials, traditional leaders and farmers.
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/ 17 October 2006
The 13-month-old Malawian boy who United States pop diva Madonna hopes to adopt has arrived in Britain on Tuesday on a private plane from Johannesburg, British media reported. Earlier, a private jet had whisked the boy from Malawi to Johannesburg after Malawian authorities waived local rules to grant Madonna an interim adoption and issued the boy, David Banda, with a passport.
South Africa’s recent upbeat assessment of job growth is not a true reflection of trends in the country’s workforce, say critics who contend that gaps in official employment data undercut the government’s rosy claims. Statistics South Africa reported last week that there were 544 000 new jobs in the year to March and noted a ”slightly upward trend” in employment.
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/ 14 September 2006
Three decades ago, these streets were ablaze as protesting youths pelted apartheid police with bricks and stones, angered by a government plan to force Afrikaans on them as a language of instruction. Scores died as police fired bullets into a crowd of thousands of young people, many still in school. Rarely can a language have evoked more bitterness.
The number of executives leaving South Africa in 2005/06 rose despite higher pay packages, underlining the country’s struggle to retain a skilled labour force, a new study shows. It says 39% of respondents in the marketing and sales sector lost senior staff members between August 2005 and July this year, up from 24% the year before.
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The corruption case against Jacob Zuma, once the front-runner to succeed President Thabo Mbeki, has exposed splits in the African National Congress (ANC), the party that under Nelson Mandela led South Africa from apartheid to multiracial politics. Analysts say the ANC is facing its worst crisis in years.