So intense is the emotion surrounding land claims against the Kruger National Park that after our recent front-page story on the issue, one community leader indicated he would be calling for the head of South African National Parks (SANParks) spokesperson Wanda Mkutshulwa. Mkutshulwa’s crime had been to warn that the validation of the 37 claims could threaten Kruger’s survival.
Transnet subsidiary Petronet is to spend at least R3-billion on a new pipeline to move petrol, diesel and jet fuel from Durban to Gauteng, in a move that is expected to shake up a fuel market still shaped by apartheid-era logistical constraints. Gas and liquid fuels transport capacity is among the most contested issues in the local industry.
"Recognising that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come." Peace and democracy take root in caring for the planet, says Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
A labour lover of note, the Oom was, however, duty-bound to point out this example of union double-speak to his followers. On Tuesday South African Transport and Allied Workers Union members caused mayhem on the streets of Jozi when they started stoning truckers who hadn’t heeded their call to down gear. The police got the moer in and beat them up, apartheid-style.
Judging a journalism competition means you get to peruse a pile of poor-quality products, but also that you are sometimes rewarded with exhilarating examples of quality work. In the intricate field of information and communication technology (ICT) coverage, your chances of encountering the good stuff are even more challenged.
Could husband-hunting be a deadly business for South Africa’s young women? Jeremy Magruder, a young American economist at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Social Science Research, thinks so. Frisky, risky chancers may be transmitting the incurable virus among themselves but Magruder suspects that dating, with a view to marriage, is pushing the infection.
Prosecutor-turned-businessman Bulelani Ngcuka is to chair the new-look board of Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront Holdings Company. Derick van der Merwe, MD of subsidary Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, said the holdings board has been reshaped to reflect changes to the Transnet board last year.
Nobody in Zimbabwe is likely to act in a way that will prevent free and fair elections being held in that country on March 31, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. He was peaking at Tuynhuys after talks with outgoing Namibian President San Nujoma.
The Zimbabwe High Court has given former information minister Jonathan Moyo a 12-day reprieve to vacate a government house following his dismissal last month, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Moyo was about to be thrown out of the government house in the plush Harare suburb of Gunhill on Sunday.
The European Union’s foreign and security policy chief, Javier Solana, on Wednesday promised strong support for the creation of an independent state of Palestine, saying the 25-nation bloc is determined to help Palestinians build up the structures of a viable and separate state.