SIX people have drowned and scores more are missing after a boat carrying at least 200 people sank in the Forcados River in south-east Nigeria, press reports said on Tuesday. The accident took place late on Sunday near Burutu in the swamps south of the troubled oil town of Warri, the reports said, quoting police […]
SOUTH AFRICA will be short of water just 20 years from now unless people cut back their usage immediately, Water Affairs Minister Kader Asmal said on Monday. “Our economy is growing. Our climate is becoming drier. Our demand for water is growing too,” said Asmal, launching National Water Week at Cape Town’s Waterfront. “Experts predict […]
THE bail application of the four men arrested in Nyanga, Cape Town on Saturday in connection with last week’s murder of political leaders in Nyanga and KTC townships was postponed on Monday the Wynberg Regional Court. The men were arrested following the murder of four members of the United Democratic Movement and an African National […]
THE Labour Ministry announced on Monday that it is planning to introduce legislation laying out a minimum wages for the hundreds of thousands of domestic and agricultural workers. Addressing journalists after a debate on his budget vote in Parliament, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said that government is concerned that 25% of South Africans currently earn […]
JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar launched Human Rights Week in Johannesburg on Monday, saying that political killings and the high crime rate are a reflection of the scant regard for human rights. Omar added that high levels of intolerance continue in the country despite having a “human rights friendly” Constitution. Human Rights Week runs until Human […]
AN estimated thousand municipal workers in Welkom went on strike on Monday after the council unilaterally downgraded their conditions of service. The move will see employees losing all study leave, leave encashment provisions and travel allowances. 14
KHULANI Springbok Patrols in Mkuze in Northern KwaZulu-Natal was robbed of about R3-million in the early hours of Sunday. According to police spokesperson Captain Vishnu Naidoo, 15 armed men overpowered branch manager Andre de Lange, his wife and their adult son at their home in nearby Hluhluwe at 3.20am before taking the family to the […]
SHARES in Sun International Ltd (Sisa) jumped nearly 27% in early trade on Monday on speculation that pop star Michael Jackson will buy a 27% stake in the hotel group. This comes after Business Times reported on Sunday that Jackson is to buy 27% of Sisa for R400-million from the provincial North West Development Corporation. […]
SOME 14225 were reported raped in the first 11 months of last year, according to police figures presented on Monday at a conference on crimes against children. Northern Province divisional commissioner of human resources, Neels Steenkamp, said at the Nylstroom conference that reported rapes of children have doubled since 1994, when 7559 cases were reported. […]
AMERICAN pop star Michael Jackson’s infatuation with Southern Africa will culminate next week in a deal to buy almost a third of the giant hotel, casino and leisure group Sun International, which owns one of Jackson’s favourite hotels, Sun City. Jackson and his business associate, powerful black US gaming industry entrepeneur Don Barden, will fly […]