NIGERIAN ended a four month strike over pay and conditions after receiving promises of a review, press reports said on Monday. The public sector doctors began their strike on December 14 after they were excluded from a new public sector wage package announced by military ruler General Abdulsalami Abubakar in September. At a meeting Saturday, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.00pm. AMAZULU and Vaal Professionals drew their Castle Premier League match 1-1 at Kings Park in Durban on Sunday. There was no score at half-time, but the visiting side protested when Papi Mbele managed to scramble the ball over the AmaZulu goalline in the 18th minute from a cross by […]
THE Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council said on Thursday it is to continue with its implementation of the Igoli 2002 restructuring programme — despite demands by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union for an immediate halt to the plan. Samwu said the plan has been hatched without any consultation with the city’s poor, and violates a […]
THE decision to bring in Auditor General Henri Kleuver to settle the dispute between Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and Judge Willem Heath over the effeciveness of his special investigative unit was welcomed by Heath on Thursday. “The auditor-general is independent, and once he has checked our files, there will be clarity,” said the anti-corruption unit’s […]
NIGERIA’S president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo has arrived in Beijing for a two-day unofficial visit at the invitation of Chinese President Jiang Zemin, state media reported on Sunday. Obasanjo was greeted at the airport by Assistant Foreign Minister Wu Donghe, Xinhua news agency reported. The president-elect is also expected to visit Japan on April 14 and 15.He […]
THE Department of Trade and Industry on Thursday launched a Business Referral and Information Network “Brain” website aimed at promoting small business enterprises. The site aims to provide businesses with access to information and assistance on business development. Small Business Promotion Centre chief director Patrick Kohlo said the government will inject R5-million into the project […]
THREE South African Under-19 rugby players alleged to have misbehaved during a return flight from Wales earlier this week, and the Under-19 team manager will appear before a South African Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing next week. The decision was taken by the Sarfu Executive Committee at a meeting in Cape Town on Friday. Meanwhile, […]
THE state will decide this week whether it will prosecute music legend, Ray Phiri, after he broke into his rented farmhouse in Mpumalanga when his landlord tried to evict him for being three months late with his rent. Senior public prosecutor Marius van Heerden says police are still investigating charges of housebreaking, theft and trespassing […]
FOUR people were injured, one of them seriously, when a bomb went off overnight in the Ugandan capital Kampala, police said on Sunday. “Three (people) had minor injuries but one of the victims was seriously injured. She had shrapnel wounds in her head and eye,” police spokesman Bob Ngobi said. The explosion occurred late on […]
REBELS fighting President Laurent Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have claimed a further strategic gain in taking Lubefu in the central Kasai Oriental province. “Our forces have taken the town of Lubefu and Lodja airport (300 kilometres (180 miles) north of (the provincial capital) Mbuji Maya,” the rebels’ military chief Jean-Pierre Ondekane […]