Glenda Daniels The public service is in for a bruising battle with organised labour if it goes ahead with plans to shift at least 125E000 unskilled workers from the state payroll. According to the latest plans drafted by the Department of Public Service and Administration, up to 20% of the public service’s unskilled employees are […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 4.30pm. THE rand remained weak by late afternoon, after testing the key resistance level of R7,03 to the dollar in early trade on Friday. Dealers said the dollar and negative overseas sentiment continues to weigh on the market. By 4pm the local currency was trading at R7,04 to the dollar. […]
With few resources to aid it, the Cape Peninsula’s visible gang unit battles to bring an end to gang activity Marianne Merten The dark alleys of gang-wracked Mannenberg on the Cape Flats resound with a rapid- fire volley of 20 gunshots shortly before 8pm on Saturday night. Gunsmoke is heavy in the air only metres […]
with fraud Darran Morgan Six members of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands child protection unit (CPU) in Pietermaritzburg have been charged with fraud after an internal investigation revealed irregularities in informer payment claims going as far back as 1996. Most of the allegedly fraudulent claims were made out to a police reservist who, according to a member […]
ANGLO American has confirmed that it is in early discussions to form “an online joint procurement venture” with other metals mining companies. “We are in preliminary discussions with several parties but do not have any details yet,” an Anglo American spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said the company will provide the market with further […]
Luvuyo Kakaza CD OFTHEWEEK Busi Mhlongo’s second album, Urban Zulu, released five years after her debut, Babemu, held the number-one hot spot for two hard-hitting months in the world charts, edging ahead of notable veteran Afro-beat stars such as Congolese virtuoso composer Ray Lema and Femi Kuti. Now with the release of Urban Zulu: The […]
Forget soppy R&B and angry hip-hop – feisty Irish pop-rockers the Cranberries are in town Riaan Wolmarans In the mid-Nineties, you could not go to any decent alternative or rock club without, at some time during the evening, hearing the crashing opening chords of the Cranberries’ powerful song Zombie. Then, people would scurry to the […]
Russel Ngubo has an unusual curriculum vitae for a man who is deputy director of a provincial correctional services department Paul Kirk Russel Ngubo earned the nickname of “The Incredible Teflon Man” from his colleagues in the prison service. Nothing sticks to him, he never chips, he is completely indestructible. Which perhaps explains his sanguine […]
Christopher Zinn Olympics with a difference were celebrated in Australia last weekend, opening with a Mardi Grass, to celebrate this region’s highly respected cannabis crop. The distinctly unathletic Australia Hemp Olympix 2000 attracted thousands of pro- marijuana campaigners to the town of Nimbin, 640km north of Sydney – a sort of sub-tropical Woodstock. Judges awarded […]
NEW Zealand’s High Commission in violence-torn Zimbabwe is fending off demands from some 400 people a day for free air tickets to New Zealand because of what Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel says is misinformation. “Some information being reported in Zimbabwe by media there is not correct…It has been reported that New Zealand is offering free […]