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/ 1 July 2005

Shilowa to announce Gautrain tender

Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa will announce the successful bidder for the R8-billion Gautrain rapid rail link in Pretoria on Saturday. Shilowa failed to meet three announcement deadlines; the first in April, the second in May and a third at the end of June, to announce which of the two consortia — Bombela and Gauliwe — had won the bid.

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/ 31 May 2005

ANC to axe guilty Travelgate MPs

Members of Parliament found guilty in Parliament’s so-called Travelgate scandal will be fired, the African National Congress said on Monday. In a meeting over the weekend, the party’s national executive committee said the ANC had a central role to play in fighting corruption and the abuse of power.

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/ 16 May 2005

Climate change ‘as bad as Aids’

The impact of climate change on Africa in 30 to 40 years will be as significant as that of malaria and Aids, the chief scientific adviser to the British government said in Johannesburg on Monday. Sir David King is in the country to promote Zero Carbon City, the British Council’s awareness campaign on global warming.

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/ 16 May 2005

Missing man found dead

Pretoria police found the body of a man missing since Wednesday in Brooklyn, police said on Monday. ”Mohammed Asif Ayob (20) went missing on Wednesday evening. A post-mortem will be held to determine the cause of death,” Inspector Anton Breedt said.

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/ 12 May 2005

How do you eat an elephant?

Gautrain CEO Jack van der Merwe is optimistic that the R8-billion Gautrain project will be completed in time for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. ”How do you eat an elephant? Bite by bite,” Van der Merwe said at a meeting of the SA Association of Consulting Engineers.

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/ 27 April 2005

NUM calls for reinstatement of Free State workers

Over 4 900 Free State miners should be reinstated because the National Union of Mineworkers’ consultation process with Harmony Gold was not exhausted, the Labour Court heard on Tuesday. ”The dismissals were effected prematurely, the consultation was not properly exhausted and fair procedure was not followed,” said Hans van der Riet, lawyer for the NUM.

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/ 10 March 2005

Insurers start assessing earthquake damage

Although mining-related earthquakes are an ”industry exclusion”, one insurer has said it will pay claims from Wednesday’s Klerksdorp earthquake because of the ”emotional content” of the event. The ombudsman for short-term insurance, Helem van Zyjl, advised people to lodge their claims as soon as possible to see whether they are covered.

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/ 24 February 2005

Cosatu and Solidarity: ‘Beit Bridge, here we come’

Workers in Zimbabwe are beaten, maimed and in some cases even castrated, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha said at this year’s Solidarity trade union congress on Thursday. He said there is a ”very serious problem” with the Zanu-PF ruling party calling itself a ”party of liberation” when workers are killed and beaten.