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Court orders miners back to work
Gold Fields has obtained a court interdict to force 30 000 striking miners back to work, the company said on Thursday. ”We must now serve the interdict on the National Union of…
New prison plan to create thousands of jobs
Massive restructuring in South African prisons will result in the abolition of weekend overtime for warders, and the creation of 8Â 311 new jobs, the minister of correctional…
Miners trapped after North West quake
At least 42 miners were stuck 2,4km underground at Hartbeesfontein gold mine late on Wednesday after an earthquake shook the Klerksdorp mining area in the North West province.…
IFP calls for action on KZN violence
With five leaders killed since November last year, the Inkatha Freedom Party is calling for action on political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, but some think it might be opening a…
Cosatu reveals Zim protest plans
Workers will picket overnight at Zimbabwe border posts the day before elections take place in that country, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday.…
Jo’burg belly-dancers wriggle into record books
More than 100 belly-dancers shimmied their way into the record books on Friday night, watched by appreciative fathers, husbands and boyfriends. The 116 dancers gathered at the…
Zim says it will give Cosatu the boot
A Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) group will be kicked out of Zimbabwe if it went ahead with a planned visit to that country, the Zimbabwean labour minister said…
Peace Prize brings its own challenges
Wangari Maathai, civil activist recently turned politician, now has another role to fill: Nobel Peace Prize-winner. The Kenyan was officially awarded the prize on Friday at a…
No Constitutional Court hearing for Radio Pretoria
Radio Pretoria’s application to have its plea for renewal of its broadcasting licence heard in the Constitutional Court was refused on Wednesday. The court ruled that the dispute…
Three-year-old rescued from sex ring
A police raid on a suspected child-sex operation in Benoni found a three-year-old boy being held hostage, and an under-age girl being pimped out for sex, police said on Friday.…
Pet shop owner slated for feeding bunnies to snakes
A Johannesburg pet shop owner and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) were at odds on Wednesday over whether snakes should be fed live rabbits…
‘No one took Wanderers fire seriously at first’
Most of the historic Wanderers cricket clubhouse in Johannesburg was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night. By 9.30pm flames were still raging in one corner of the building —…
Plant ‘dinosaurs’ dying out in South Africa
Two more cycad species have become extinct in the past two years, data from the South African National Biodiversity Institute showed on Wednesday. This means at least three, and…
How pharmacies plan to survive
Pharmacists across the country are introducing a range of new charges now that they are limited in the prices they can ask for drugs, players in the industry said on Monday. ”We…
Ngcuka was not ‘robust enough’
The timing and manner of National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka’s resignation speak of political pressure, not just a personal desire to move on, political…