Food retailer Spar has installed diesel generators at four of its six distribution centres, with generators to be installed at the remaining two distribution centres by the end of the financial year. The group released its unaudited interim results for the six months ended March 31 on Wednesday.
Eskom said on Wednesday that South Africa’s power supply remained limited and electricity prices were set to rise steadily. ”The system is still tight and vulnerable,” Eskom spokesperson Andrew Etzinger said in a presentation. ”Electricity prices are going to go up steadily.”
Muslim leaders in Kenya’s North-Eastern Province have resolved to campaign against the promotion of condoms as a means of preventing HIV.
About 70 people spent a harrowing half hour in mid-air after fuses blew and cut power to the motor that hauls the Table Mountain cable cars, the Times reported on Wednesday. The chief executive of the company that runs the cableway, Sabine Lehmann, said two cars were stranded for 35 minutes when the fuses blew on Tuesday.
Two construction sites in Durban, including Tongaat Hulett Sugar, have been closed down as they were considered unsafe for workers, the Labour Department said on Tuesday. At Le Domaine Estates in Hillcrest, inspectors stopped the construction of houses located directly under high voltage power cables.
A Frenchman pretending to be the Reserve Bank Governor, Tito Mboweni, and his four accomplices have allegedly fleeced a foreign businessman of more than R2-million. Adam Toure and his cronies Mark Ezende, Alpheus Onabuenyi, Meleece Ayoba and her husband Franklin briefly appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court this week on two charges of fraud.
Three teenagers, including a 14-year-old boy, were shot and stabbed as violence flared up again in Alexandra on Tuesday night, Johannesburg police said on Wednesday. Constable Neria Malefetse said the police arrested another five people, bringing the total number of arrests related to suspected xenophobic attacks to 66.
It was not the fact that he was asked to give up his seat on a JetBlue Airways plane on behalf of a flight attendant that appears to have upset Gokhan Mutlu so much. It was the alternative seat he was offered — in the toilet. Mutlu has lodged a -million lawsuit in a Manhattan court complaining that he was told to ”go hang out” in the toilet.
The African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday night called on members of the Alexandra community to remain calm and to allow police to handle the situation. ANC Alexandra spokesperson, Pule Phalatse, said the party had attended a meeting held at the Sankopano community centre on the corner on Selbourne and 12th Avenue in Alexandra.
Dozens of people were killed and more than 100 injured when six bombs ripped through the centre of Jaipur, one of India’s most popular tourist destinations. The explosions, which began at 7.30pm, took place in markets surrounding the city’s pink palace, the Hawa Mahal, and its main temple complex.