CAMBODIA said on Wednesday it favours a truth commission similar to South Africa’s. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said rather than put Khmer Rouge leaders on trial and risk jeopardising a shaky peace, he preferred a South African-style truth commission. In a letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan, Hun Sen warned that trials might “panic” […]
THE National Assembly on Wednesday approved amendments to the tobacco bill raised by President Nelson Mandela concerning the bill’s constitutionality. The amendments exclude private homes from the definition of workplace, where smoking is to be banned.
THE total number of liquidations continued to climb in the three months to January, rising a massive 59,1% compared with the corresponding period last year. Announcing the increase, Statistics South Africa said that the period shows an increase of 12,8% (from 988 to 1114) compared with the previous three months. The 12,8% increase in the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 5.30pm. JUSTICE Minister Dullah Omar appealed on Thursday for greater community participation in apprehending criminals but was careful to steer away from a sanction of vigilantism. He said community anti-crime actions should take place within the law. Addressing a conference of the Community Dispute Resolution Trust in Cape Town, […]
THE Skills Development Levy Bill — which proposes a compulsory levy on employers to fund programmes to boost workers’ skills — was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday. Introduction of the levy will be staggered, with employers paying 0,5% of their monthly payrolls to the fund from April 1, 2000. By April 2001 this will kick […]
THE Mozambican government has launched an emergency appeal for $12,4-million to assist victims of flooding and to repair damage to the country’s infrastructure by this year’s heavy rains. The appeal covers flooded areas in Inhambane in the south and in the central provinces of Sofala, Tete and Zambezia. In the usually semi-arid Inhambane province a […]
THE Mpumalanga taxi industry is negotiating for an equity share in the R2-billion Witbank-to-Maputo N4 toll road. The toll road concessionaire, Trans Africa Concessions (Trac), confirmed on Tuesday that a large but as yet unnamed provincial taxi group is interested in acquiring shares in the company. Trac chief executive, Trevor Jackson, said that negotiations started […]
ENGLAND A won the toss and elected to bat in their five-day international match against a South African President’s XI at Newlands in Cape Town on Thursday.
THE Swiss Parliament backed a proposal on Wednesday to investigate the country’s relations with apartheid-era South Africa. However, critics say the probe will be toothless. Pia Hollstein, a Green Party member who proposed the investigation, said the study would not have the powers to get to the bottom of the matter. She noted it would […]
SOME 57% of potential voters have registered for the June 2 general elections, according to latest figures published by the Independent Electoral Commission on Thursday. The IEC figures show that more than 15-million voters had registered by 9am on Thursday. Provincial breakdowns show the Western Cape lagging with 47,2% of voters registered, and Mpumalanga still […]