KWAZULU-NATAL manufacturer Thor Chemicals SA is demanding an apology from African National Congress MP and environment portfolio committee chairperson Gwen Mahlangu for comments she made about during an SAfm radio interview this month. Mahlangu is alleged to have said that people are “dying every day” in Cato Ridge and that Thor is the only employer […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 1.50pm. BOB WOOLMER, who quit as South Africa’s cricket coach last weekend, says he is tempted by the prospect of taking charge of England in place of David Lloyd. However, Woolmer said on Wednesday he has not been approach by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as they search […]
SIX million Kenyan children are victims of child labour, United Nations Children’s Fund officer in charge of basic education, child protection and development, Dr Mamadou Bagayoku, said on Tuesday. Speaking from Nyeri, 190km north of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Bagayoku said Unicef has set aside six million shillings (about $100000) to fight child labour in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT and AFP, Cape Town | Wednesday 7.00pm. A SPECIAL office will be established in the presidency to oversee minority language and cultural rights, Deputy President Thabo Mbeki announced in Parliament on Wednesday, during the debate on “The Afrikaner”. Mbeki said the new office, to be called the Commission for the Promotion and Protection […]
AFTER four years of tough negotiations and months of grandstanding over the final details, the European Union on Wednesday approved an historic free trade pact with South Africa, the first with a developing nation and likely to be a precedent for others. The decision came at a summit of EU leaders in Berlin. President Nelson […]
THE Industrial Development Corporation announced on Wednesday it is to use the local bond market to finance R3-billion to fund job-creating projects. IDC CEO, Khaya Ngqula, said they are to issue use a Domestic Medium Term Note Programme for the first time in South Africa. Merrill Lynch International and Merrill Lynch SA are advisers. Ngqula […]
THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) is working on a programme aimed at removing restrictions on air transport which make it difficult to develop the industry in the region. Comesa Secretary General Erastus Mwencha said on Thursday that by October this year, Comesa should be able to link by air all the […]
THE African National Congress has called for a commission of inquiry into Inkatha Freedom Party politician and member of the KwaZulu-Natal provincial legislature Philip Powell, following his alleged interference with a police murder investigation. Powell, often accused of involvement in gun-running and hit squads in the violent province, allegedly tried to interfere with a police […]
YET another New National Party member is defecting to the African National Congress, and this time it is senior Western Cape leader Patrick Mackenzie. Along with NNP MPs David Chuenyane and John Gogotya, Mackenzie was expected to make his defection formal on Thursday morning.
TWELVE unions representing about 1,2-million public servants walked out of wage talks in Pretoria on Thursday, accusing the state of intransigence. Unions have dropped their pay rise demand from 15% to about 10% since the start of negotiations in February. The employer’s offer remained at 5%. The union have given the government 21 days to […]