Gauteng’s planned monorail should be kept off taxi routes, the South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) said on Friday. Santaco secretary general Philip Taaibosch said there was no agreement between the taxi industry and the government on the planned monorail between Soweto and central Johannesburg.
Opposition parties on Friday demanded answers on the troubled electronic national traffic information system, following allegations the Auditor General had warned of problems before the system was introduced. The Inkatha Freedom Party said it has urgently tabled questions in Parliament to Transport Minister Jeff Radebe.
Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe was warned by the Auditor General about South Africa’s chaotic new traffic information system, a newspaper reported on Friday. It said the minister and his department were told in December last year that the electronic national traffic information system would be an "embarrassment" for the country.
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.
The secrecy that surrounded South Africa’s apartheid nuclear weapons programme threatens to envelop the trial in Pretoria of a German and a Swiss engineer accused of using their know-how from the apartheid era to further Libya’s atomic ambitions. The case has sparked media controversy in South Africa.