South Africa’s best prospects for growing employment lies in sectors that export primary products to rapidly industrialising countries such as China and India, suggests a new labour market analysis by the Reserve Bank. These include food and coal, according to Labour Market Frontiers, published last week.
The arrival of a new premium beer and spirits distributor in South Africa may give SABMiller some grey hairs on the yuppie beer front. This week saw the launch of Brandhouse, a three-way joint venture between Diageo, Heineken and Namibian Breweries. The company will distribute premium beer brands including Heineken, Windhoek and Guinness, and whiskies Johnnie Walker, J&B and Bells.
If you want to make sense of the third African Union summit, follow the money. The 40 heads of state gathered in Addis Ababa this week enthusiastically adopted a new vision and strategic plan defining the AU’s place in the continent. But African leaders giggled when the new AU chairperson, Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo, asked for a 1 200% increase in the organisation’s current budget.
Forward enforcer AJ Venter is one of seven changes coach Jake White made to the Springboks’ team in Sydney on Friday for next week’s rugby Test against the Pacific Islands in Gosford. Venter has been in strife with judiciaries and was suspended twice for a total of 10 weeks last year, missing the World Cup in Australia.
Prisons throughout South Africa could be unguarded at the weekend as the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) prepares to defy a court interdict preventing its members from striking. The interim interdict, obtained in the Pretoria High Court on Monday evening, prevents union members from engaging in any form of action that negatively impacted on service delivery.
With a month to go until it all kicks off again, here is the first part of the ins, outs and maybes from the transfer market. See who is in as Arsenal’s new goalkeeper, which midfielder is leaving Aston Villa and which £5-million will possibly join Birmingham City.
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Premier Soccer League (PSL) glamour club Kaizer Chiefs and the mighty Orlando Pirates will be out to book their places in the 2004 Vodacom Challenge final when they face up to the respective Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) club onslaught of TP Mazembe and ASV Club semifinal action on Sunday.
Morocco complained on Thursday that international aid to help it fight off a plague of locusts threatening its crops has fallen far short of what is needed. Since June 30 on average 106 000 hectares a day have been infested and swarms are heading south, in particular to Mauritania, Mali and Senegal.
Belgian investigators on Thursday continued to question confessed French serial killer Michel Fourniret, who has already admitted to nine murders, over a number of other alleged crimes. French police are reportedly reinvestigating about 30 unsolved murders and Belgian authorities have reopened a dozen unsolved cases.
A group of retail pharmacies may not boycott medical schemes who refuse to accept its trading conditions, the Competition Commission said on Thursday.
The commission ruled that United South African Pharmacies had contravened the Competition Act in boycotting the Anglo American Corporation Medical Scheme and the Engen Medical Fund.