A new minimum wage has been set for farm workers effective from March 1, the Department of Labour said on Friday. ”They [farm workers] are now entitled to a minimum wage of R1 041 per month,” department spokesperson Zolisa Sigabi said in a statement.
It has been attacked many times in its short life, most notably by a former aide to Robert F Kennedy and the editor of <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica</i>. But now the online reference site Wikipedia has a new foe: evangelical Christians. A website founded by United States religious activists aims to counter what they claim is "liberal bias" on Wikipedia.
This year’s budget was a little more tempered for individual taxpayers. We may have become used to having loads of money put back into our pocket each year, but this year Finance Minister Trevor Manuel held back, covering only for inflation adjustment and the impacts of changes to car allowance and medical aid contributions last year.
Tumi is now 35 years old, with only four years of retirement savings in her kitty as she cashed in her retirement fund when changing jobs at the age of 31 to buy a car. Her pension fund is only valued at R67 000. She has recently received a 9% increase in salary as a reward for her hard work. Sophia Swartz, a business development manager from Sanlam Financial Advisors, discusses Tumi’s options
Côte d’Ivoire striker Didier Drogba was named the 2006 African Footballer of the Year on Thursday night at an awards ceremony in Accra, Ghana. He edged out Ghana’s Michael Essien of Chelsea and Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o to deny the Barcelona marksman a record fourth successive award.
South Africa soccer coach Carlos Alberto Parreira expects in-form star striker Benni McCarthy to end his long boycott of the national team after finding his feet in the English Premiership. McCarthy, who has refused to play for Bafana Bafana since 2005, took his tally for new club Blackburn Rovers to 16 when he scored an outstanding winner against Arsenal in the FA Cup in midweek.
The Auckland Blues extended their lead at the top of the Super 14 standings to five points with a 28-9 win over the Otago Highlanders at Eden Park on Friday. The Blues scored three unanswered tries in the second half to run away with the match after Otago had led 6-3 at the break and held their advantage until the final 20 minutes.
South Korea on Friday announced it would resume food aid to North Korea and the two sides agreed to restart family reunions, following their first high-level meeting since the North’s nuclear test. The two nations also announced a series of other steps to improve relations chilled by the North’s missile launches last July and an atomic test last October.
Israel expressed concern on Friday about a potential Russian sale of advanced anti-tank weapon systems to Damascus amid persistent fears in the Jewish state about a future conflict with its enemy. The weapons in question are capable of ripping through the most modern armour and penetrating even bunkers, the country’s top-selling Yediot Aharonot newspaper warned.
Broadcaster John Perlman finished his stint as SAfm current-affairs talk-show host on Friday after a run-in with his bosses over the blacklisting controversy last year. ”Thanks very much for having me, it has been a fabulous nine years,” was how Perlman ended his last show.