Proudly South African (PSA) — the campaign established in 2001 to encourage consumers to buy local products — is undergoing a renaissance under new CEO Manana Moroka, the organisation said on Tuesday. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reported earlier this month that PSA was floundering.
The African National Congress said on Monday that its deputy president, Jacob Zuma, would be resuming his duties ”without delay” after he stepped down from active duty while his rape trial was under way. Zuma was acquitted of rape in the Johannesburg High Court on May 8.
Minister of Public Works Stella Sigcau has died at Durban’s St Augustine hospital, ministerial spokesperson Lucky Mochalibane said on Monday. He said Sigcau (69), who was appointed minister of public enterprises in the first post-apartheid government in 1994, died of a recurring heart problem on Sunday.
The South African National Editors’ Forum announced the launch of its ”Media Freedom Is Your Freedom” campaign on Wednesday, World Press Freedom Day, with an advertising drive subtitled ”What you can’t see, can hurt you.” It said the campaign is geared to highlight the value of a free media in South Africa.
Talk Radio 702 has been granted an application for the amendment of its commercial licence to allow the station to migrate to FM frequencies 92.7 MHz in Johannesburg and 106 MHz in Pretoria. ”It is a historic announcement and the best news we’ve had in 702’s 25-year history,” station manager Pheladi Gwangwa said.
Former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s behaviour as a former leader of the government’s campaign against HIV/Aids as well as the moral regeneration movement ”is testimony to the sad state of leadership in South Africa today”, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon, who has also criticised the Koeberg ”sabotage” debacle.
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/ 9 February 2006
Hundreds of Muslims, expected to march in central Cape Town on Thursday to protest against cartoons caricaturing the prophet Muhammad, would have to abide by strict conditions or face possible arrest, the City of Cape Town said. Meanwhile, the Cabinet and the South African National Editors’ Forum have reacted to the controversy.
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/ 8 February 2006
Biz Africa 1320, a Middelburg company that provides a number of services and products to the mining industry, has entered into a substantial black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction with a broad-based BEE consortium led by Sakhumnotho Mining, the company said in a statement this week.
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/ 24 January 2006
A tremor of a magnitude of 3,6 on the Richter scale was recorded in the East Rand, 8km north-west of Germiston, on Tuesday at 11.13am, said Ian Saunders, project leader for the South African National Seismograph Network at the Council for Geoscience in Pretoria. The tremor was felt in many parts of Johannesburg.
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/ 13 January 2006
Parliament’s chief financial officer, Harry Charlton, has got the chop after an internal disciplinary hearing found him guilty of a range of charges, including the illegal procurement of goods and services with a value greater than R750 000 without the authority of the secretary to Parliament. The announcement was made at Parliament on Friday by the secretary to Parliament, Zingile Dingani.