LABOUR Minister Membathisi Mdladlana launched the National Skills Authority on Monday, saying it will promote training for school leavers and the unemployed, as well as improving the relationship between the education system and the job market. The authority replaces the National Training Board in terms of the Skills Development Act. Another new law, the Skills […]
SOUTH African captain Hanse Cronje led his team to a stunning three-wicket victory against Pakistan in the one-day limited-overs international at Buffalo Park in East London on Saturday, claiming man-of-the-match title after taking two for 17, in ten overs. Some 13 000 people attended the match to see Cronje’s men extend their unbeaten run over […]
President Nelson Mandela will formally proclaim June 2 as the election date by the end of the week.
STEEL giant Iscor said on Monday it would close its 96-year-old Durnacol coal mine in 2000 because continued production there is no longer economically viable. Iscor chairman Hans Smith said in a statement that massive cutbacks in domestic steel production had resulted in a dramatic drop in demand for coal from Durnacol. Iscor mining division […]
ZIMBABWE’s powerful labour movement on Monday threatened mass action against employers who have failed to award staff a 20% wage increase to cushion them against rising living costs. Morgan Tsvangirai, secretary general of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, told a news conference that some three-quarters of Zimbabwean companies awarded their employees the 20% adjustment […]
A GROUP of 160 Zambian soldiers, 130 infantrymen and 30 air force members, arrived in Johannesburg on Sunday to take part in a Southern African Development Community military training programme. Speaking during a sending off ceremony at Lusaka’s International airport on Sunday, South African High Commission military adviser to Zambia Colonel Barney Links said it […]
ELECTRICITY was restored on Monday in Pointe Noire, Congo’s main port and its economic capital, after being cut off since January, local residents report. Power supplies to the city were cut off when rebels loyal to former president Pascal Lissouba captured the Moukoukoulou dam some 350km south-west of the capital Brazzaville. Two weeks ago, government […]
THE South African Tourism Board is to launch a R90-million marketing campaign this year to attract tourists from Britain, Europe, and the United States. Deputy Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Peter Mokaba, speaking after a meeting in Johannesburg of the Tourism Forum, said the campaign, to be launched later this year, will involve R50-million spent […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 10.00pm. FOLLOWING Friday’s sale of 20 tons of Namibian ivory, the first legal ivory auction in a decade, Zimbabwe has followed suit, selling 20 tons to Japanese buyers on Tuesday in Harare. Willas Makombe, director of the Zimbabwean National Parks and Wildlife Management, said that the parks authorities were satisfied […]
TREVOR TUTU, the son of Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairman Desmond Tutu, pleaded not guilty to two charges of tax evasion in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Monday. The controversial Tutu told the court he could not pay tax or submit returns during 1996 and 1997 as he was a ”fugitive from justice” at the […]