WELFARE Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) David Whaley and the director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Kenneth Andoh on Friday signed an agreement regarding a programme to aid poverty relief in South Africa. The UNDP and ILO’s Micro-Save programme targets community-based groups of poor families and households, […]
SASOL Chemical Industries announced on Thursday that it has signed an agreement with Air Products South Africa to combine their infrastructure, facilities and expertise for the production and marketing of high purity hydrogen. The two companies are investing more than R20-million into the project which will expand Air Products’ existing high purity hydrogen supply and […]
MONDAY, 2.00PM: IT will be at least two years before provinces get the powers to levy the taxes allowed by the Constitution and strongly urged by the Financial and Fiscal Commission, because the South African Revenue Service cannot collect and distribute taxes regionally. Originally, it was expected that legislation controlling such taxation would be in […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM: THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange took a hammering on Monday, following the precipitous drop of the rand in after-hours trading on Friday as foreign investors got the jitters on rumours that the rand is to be devalued by the Reserve Bank. The market seems to be led principally by the rand, the repo rate […]
A WARRANT has been drawn up for Trevor Tutu, the wayward son of Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for failing to pay a R8000 fine. Tutu could spend a year in jail as a result. He was fined R10000 earlier this year after being convicted for reckless driving, of which R2000 was […]
A HOMEMADE incendiary device was found outside the Pretoria home of Gauteng Freedom Front leader Joseph Chiole at about 6.00am on Tuesday. Seeing the package marked “a gift to General Viljoen”, Chiole drove it to Viljoen’s home. When the package was inspected at 3.30pm on Tuesday an explosive device consisting of a three quarter full […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 2.30pm FW DE KLERK’s court case against the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was postponed on Tuesday in the Cape High Court. Judge Jeffery Immerman agreed to postpone the case in order to allow both sides to better prepare. No date for another hearing was set. The former president, who […]
SMALL-SCALE cattle farmers in Mpumalanga got a boost on Monday with the launch of a programme to combat soil erosion and degradation in communal grazing areas the province’s Lowveld region. The programme has targeted an initial 9170 hectares used by 42 subsistence farmers in the Mawewe tribal trust for improved soil conservation management. The project […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Tuesday 12.15pm. WHEN South Africa face Kenya in their fourth World Cup cricket match, the word mismatch will acquire new depth. The World Cup favourites have not lost one of their three matches, beating India, Sri Lanka and England, occasionally returning from actual danger to save the day. Kenya have yet […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH Africa beat England on Saturday by 32 runs to clinch victory in the second one-day international at Old Trafford, thereby clinching the series and the Texaco trophy to go with it. Sunday’s match at Headingley, where the South Africans were severely bludgeoned, however leaves some questions unanswered. Why Hansie Cronje decided to […]