Own Correspondent, Johannesburg | Thursday IN a ruling which could have major repercussions on labour policies, the Constitutional Court has ordered that a man denied employment by South African Airways because he was HIV positive be offered the job as a cabin attendant with immediate effect. Judge Sandile Ngcobo, who read extracts of the judgment, […]

LUNGA MASUKU AND OWN CORRESPONDENT, Manzini | Thursday SWAZILANDS’S police have threatened to use force when workers embark on a crippling nationwide strike to protest against a controversial industrial relations law. The Swaziland Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) called for a work stoppage on September 28 after the government failed to meet a deadline to […]

DIMENSION Data Plc is to take over US information technology group TimeBridge Technologies in a R972m cash deal in its fourth takeover in the US this year, business daily Sake-Beeld reported. The group says it will invest another R108m in TimeBridge to redeem R35m of debt and boost operating capital. Didata will pay R484.65m initially […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT and REUTERS, Paros, Greece | Thursday AT least six South Africans are known to have survived the Greek ferry disaster near the Aegean Sea island of Paros, in which the death toll has risen to 62 as rescuers continue to pull bodies from the water. They are Charlene Cooper, Louis van Wyk, Pieter […]

POLICE have arrested a 39-year-old shopkeeper accused of setting alight four young boys, one of whom died from his injuries, after accusing them of stealing sweets. The man, who is also an advisor to the provincial education department, apparently fetched the boys from school and took them to his shop, where he locked them up […]

PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Abuja | Thursday ONCE rivals, South Africa and Nigeria are now partners in economic development, with South Africans leading the new foreign investors in Nigeria’s almost untapped non-oil economy, officials say. “There is a consensus in South Africa that there is a tremendous potential in Nigeria. It is still uncharted waters, but the […]

REUTERS, Abidjan | Thursday IVORY Coast’s military ruler, General Robert Guei, has completed a cabinet reshuffle prompted by an alleged assassination attempt, promoting loyalists and sacking those marked as opponents. Guei’s move came as his military junta agreed to study a series of proposals put forward by African leaders to resolve the country’s political crisis, […]

JUSTIN ARENSTEIN, Nelspruit | Thursday MPUMALANGA’S “obscene” R800m budget for a lavish new legislature complex – including 350 imported executive chairs at R12_ 000 each – could instead have been used to repair all flood damaged roads in the province, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. Leon said it was obscene that “people living less […]

CLUTCHING their meagre possessions and clinging to their mothers, five Ugandan children set foot on home soil years after rebels abducted their mothers and took them to Sudan. The mothers and children were the second group to arrive at Entebbe Airport this week following the Sudanese government’s promise at a conference in Canada earlier this […]

DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Thursday MINING giant Anglo American Plc says fundamental changes are needed to reverse eroding investor confidence in Zimbabwe, where it has put a platinum project and new investments on hold. Anglo Chief Executive Tony Trahar said he had confidence in Zimbabwe’s long-term future, but of prime concern was the country’s economic […]