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/ 18 October 2005
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The African National Congress will not punish the ”unacceptable behaviour” of its members after former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s Durban court appearance, but warned that those caught misbehaving in future will be disciplined. ”The organisation takes strong exception to such conduct,” ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said.
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/ 15 October 2005
Bridging the gap between South Africa’s first and second economies needs deliberate action, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the Black Management Forum in Johannesburg on Friday. ”Bridging the gap needs deliberate steps. It won’t just sommer happen,” she said.
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/ 14 October 2005
Rapid urbanisation is causing the demand for housing to grow faster than the government can deliver it, Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu said on Friday. ”At this rate, we are not going to get very far. We have a serious problem,” she told the annual conference of the Black Management Forum in Johannesburg.
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/ 28 September 2005
The oil industry may be underestimating to its own peril the potential of renewable energy in the decades to come, the World Petroleum Congress in Johannesburg heard on Wednesday. The president of the Worldwatch Institute, Christopher Flavin, said the perception that ”real energy men don’t do renewables” is changing.
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/ 27 September 2005
The world has sufficient oil resources but needs capacity to explore and deliver the product, Saudi Arabia’s minister of petroleum and mineral resources said on Tuesday. ”There will be no scarcity of petroleum in the foreseeable future,” he told the 18th World Petroleum Congress in Johannesburg.
While a strike by 75% of South Africa’s gold miners continues, gold miner AngloGold Ashanti on Monday announced a higher wage increase for its employees. About 80Â 000 mineworkers belonging to the National Union of Mineworkers walked off the job on Sunday, the first strike in the industry since 1987.
Attempts to find the person responsible for microwaving a live cat at the University of KwaZulu-Natal will continue until the culprits have been found, the university said on Friday. ”While there’s still no evidence on which we can base a case, we’re not stopping until we get to the bottom of this,” dean of student affairs Trevor Wills said.
About 200 residents from various communities on Saturday protested at a Pikitup information day against the company’s proposed landfill site between Dainfern and Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg. Johannesburg’s waste-management company, Pikitup, held the open day in Fourways.
Retailer Pick ‘n Pay is seeking an interdict to stop striking workers from shutting stores down and preventing people from entering them, its chief executive said on Friday. ”They clearly have a right to withhold their labour, but this is patently illegal,” chief executive Sean Summers said.
It was too early to tell how widely supported a strike by Pick ‘n Pay employees was or how many stores were affected, the retailer said on Friday morning. ”It will be about lunchtime when we get a clearer idea,” Pick ‘n Pay chief executive Sean Summers said.