OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Wednesday 3.30pm. THE wage demands of public service unions were “inappropriate” considering the limited funding available for social services, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Wednesday. She urged unions to return to the negotiating table, saying a solution could still be found which would satisfy state employees without […]
KENYA has decided to close its border with Somalia, a move the government said is aimed at “taming” the further influx of Somali refugees and defeated militiamen. North Eastern Provincial Commissioner Maurice Makhanu said the decision also bars movement of people, vehicles and goods from Somalia. He explained in a statement on national radio Monday […]
A NEW disease causing virus capable of evading the body’s immune system has been detected by researchers, Medinfo reported in Johannesburg on Tuesday. According to Medinfo, the virus, called “stealth virus” by researchers, can steal genes from its host and rob bacteria of their genes too. “This means that the virus can infiltrate the body […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dunedin | Wednesday 8.30am. SOUTH Africa on Wednesday confirmed a series of changes to the starting line-up to face the New Zealand All Blacks in Saturday’s Tri-Nations’ Test, as the Springboks try to regroup after being defeated two weeks ago by Wales. An emerging inside back combination of scrumhalf David von Hoesslin and […]
AS ”lying premier” Ndaweni Mahlangu continues to hide from the press, another former homeland minister is bringing his ilk into disrepute. Lesiba Christopher Mothiba, who once controlled the purse strings for Lebowa, appeared in court on Tuesday in Mankweng, Northern Province, on charges ranging from attempted murder to malicious damage to property and theft. Nine […]
THE African Champions League second-round, second leg match between Daring Club Motema Pembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Shooting Stars of Nigeria was abandoned at half-time on Sunday. Stars held Pembe goalless in the first half at the 80000-capacity Martyrs Stadium in Kinshasa to retain a 2-0 aggregate lead built in the first […]
AFRICA offers high returns on investment according to a focus on the continent initiated jointly by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Chamber of Commerce. The focus revealed that African affiliates of US transnational corporations had enjoyed average returns of […]
A BRAZILIAN journalist who was gang-raped by about ten attackers on Friday night near the Bruma Lake complex in Johannesburg received anti-Aids treatment, Johannesburg police said on Saturday. Inspector Mark Reynolds said the woman (28) had been rushed to the Sunninghill clinic in Sandton, which has a rape trauma centre, and was given anti-retroviral therapy, […]
THE African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday said it is shocked and angered by the murder of an ANC councillor in the midlands. In a statement ANC provincial secretary Sipho Gcabashe said a Georgedale ward councillor, Thulani Tetane, was shot and wounded while he was returning from a community meeting where he had reported […]
SOUTH African rugby was on Sunday rocked by the news that star flanker Johan Erasmus would have to sit out Saturday’s Test against New Zealand at Carisbrook in Dunedin with a rib injury. News of Erasmus’ withdrawal came at an eventful training session in which two other top players — lock Krynauw Otto and utility […]