A R12-billion monorail will be built between Johannesburg and Soweto in the next two years, it was announced on Wednesday. "By 2009, no one from Soweto should have to wait more than 15 minutes for transport," Gauteng finance and economic affairs minister Paul Mashatile said at the launch of the project in Sandton.
Luke Watson’s father, Dan ”Cheeky” Watson, believes that a sinister ”third force” holds power in South African rugby, according to the Star newspaper. In a report on Wednesday, the paper stated that Cheeky felt that his son was paying for his own political activism. Cheeky, who played rugby in the townships in the 1970s, turned his back on Springbok rugby due to political beliefs.
South Africa’s 18th Gay and Lesbian Pride celebrations will be held in the streets of Rosebank, Johannesburg, it was announced on Tuesday. The Johannesburg Pride is the largest gay and lesbian event on the continent, and celebrates South Africa’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex communities.
Stormers captain Luke Watson has been ”treated unfairly” for too long because of the anti-apartheid stance of his father, Cheeky, and his controversial inclusion in the Springbok squad is justified, says South African Rugby Union deputy president Mike Stofile. ”Luke especially has been treated unfairly,” he told a newspaper on Monday.
Former South African soap-opera actress Lindiwe Chibi has died, media reports said on Thursday. The Muvhango actress passed away at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital on Wednesday night. Chibi (31) was admitted to hospital last Friday suffering from pneumonia.
The queues for pickles and ice cream are set to be endless when more than 2 000 pregnant women gather in Johannesburg for an attempt at the world record for the largest gathering of pregnant women. The record attempt, if successful, will be recognised by the <i>Guinness World Records</i> book.
Eskom has launched a probe into the power disruption that left Bedfordview without electricity for three days this week. While national spokesperson Fani maintained that installation of closed-circuit television cameras along the R24 was to blame for the disruption, he conceded it was only partly responsible.
Zimbabwe marks Thursday’s World Press Freedom Day in the wake of relentless attacks on the media and its citizens’ right to freedom, in contrast with other countries that reflect on the progressive steps they have taken to entrench media freedom and freedom of expression, says the Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ).
Businesses in parts of Ekurhuleni, the Free State and Northern Cape are counting losses running into millions of rands after power failures, media reports said on Tuesday. A prolonged power failure has affected Eastgate Mall, one of South Africa’s largest shopping centres, in Bedfordview, east of Johannesburg.
The electricity supply to Bedfordview on Johannesburg’s East Rand is only expected to be restored on Wednesday, Eskom said. The area has been without electricity since 3am on Monday due to faults in two 132-kilovolt lines, Eskom said in a statement on Tuesday.