SOME 250 National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers’ members marched on two government departments in Pretoria to demand a revised salary offer on Tuesday. Nupsaw, which claims to represent about 65000 public servants, is demanding a 10% increase, compared to an offer of 5,7%.Other demands included an unconditional moratorium on retrenchments, and “transformation […]
THE South African Under-21 rugby team will face Western Province Under-21 at Bellville Rugby Club on Saturday as part of their preparations for the SANZAR/UAR Under-21 Tournament in Argentina in July. The match kicks off at 4pm. The 28-strong Under-21 squad has just completed an intense week-long training camp in Cape Town. The camp included […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.00pm. FINANCIAL groups Genbel Securities (Gensec) and Real Africa Durolink Holdings (RAD) have linked up with with Stuart Rees, founder of the South African Futures Exchange (Safex), to set up a corporate debt market in South Africa. Gensec and RAD noted the lack of a formal market in corporate and […]
THE Angolan government’s recent decision to scrap the dual currency exchange rate system has not had a major impact on the lives of ordinary people, analysts in Luanda said on Wednesday. Analysts said the move may stabilise the economy in the long run, but commodity prices remain extremely high. Over the past decade the government […]
LAWRENCE BARTLETT, Lusaka | Monday 9.00pm. EFFORTS to end Africa’s international conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo faltered on Monday as a draft ceasefire agreement was rejected by some of the warring parties, conference sources said. A long-awaited meeting of foreign and defence ministers in the Zambian capital Lusaka broke up within two hours, […]
NIGERIA’S teachers union has called off its two-month-old strike following payment of a new minimum salary approved for public sector workers. Last week, the Nigerian government released 4,5-billion naira ($47-million) to settle the arrears of the new monthly minimum of 3000 naira ($32) agreed in March. The decision to end the strike was taken after […]
ADRIAN WARNER, Cardiff | Saturday 9.00pm. WALES pulled off one of the biggest shocks in international rugby in recent years when they beat world champions South Africa 29-19 on Saturday. It was their first victory over the South Africans and it came appropriately in a match played to mark the opening of the Millennium stadium, […]
A PRETORIA English teacher resigned on Thursday after angry parents called him a “racist” for setting an exam based on a Herman Charles Bosman extract containing the word “kaffir”. The short story, “Unto Dust”, deals with a quarrel over the skeletons of a “boer soldier” and a “kaffir”, making the point that no-one can tell […]
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have suspended 18 top management members of Harare’s municipality for allegedly contributing to maladministration and chaos. The suspension of the 18 senior council workers, just two weeks after government sacked the elected mayor and all his councillors, came amid reports that emergency services were falling apart, with only four out of a total […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Friday 2.00pm. A BROAD and sweeping plan for South African development was laid out on Friday morning by President Thabo Mbeki in his state of the nation address to a joint sitting of the National assembly. Covering every issue from crime to the humiliation of the Bushmen, and announcing a […]