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/ 28 February 2008
The Johannesburg’ city council’s new provisional general valuation roll is now open for formal objections, executive mayor Amos Masondo said in his state of the city address in Braamfontein on Thursday. The roll contains 784 324 entries — 156 499 of them individual sectional-title units, and was completed in December.
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/ 28 February 2008
Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela announced in her recent State of the Province speech that the province will appoint additional 932 maths and science teachers. However, finding the right people for the job is a challenge — and infrastructure remains a problem too.
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/ 28 February 2008
At least three other senior leaders from major Cosatu affiliates face the axe in what is widely seen as a move by the federation’s leaders to purge elements considered supporters of President Thabo Mbeki. This week Cosatu’s central executive committee (CEC) decided to axe Willie Madisha as Cosatu president for “bringing the federation into disrepute”.
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/ 27 February 2008
South Africa’s early democracy after 1994 reached out too far with a policy of reconciliation at the expense of transformation, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) said on Wednesday. ”We focused too much on reconciliation in the first years of our democracy,” said SAHRC chairperson Jody Kollapen.
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/ 27 February 2008
The loudest cheers in a goalless Premier Soccer League match between Platinum Stars and Jomo Cosmos came when Stars communication manager Putco Mafan danced during a water break at a stifling hot Olympia Stadium in Rustenburg on Wednesday. The match was a tedious affair and the 500-strong crowd had little to cheer about.
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/ 27 February 2008
Eat an orange. Wear a face mask. Train elsewhere and fly in at the last possible moment to compete. These are some of the strategies suggested for Olympic athletes planning to compete in Beijing, where a thick cloud of smog often blankets one of the world’s most polluted cities.
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/ 27 February 2008
Police in Zimbabwe are ready to use force to quell any violence during national elections next month and any unrest after the poll, the official media reported on Wednesday. President Robert Mugabe is accused of holding on to power by using intimidation and rigging to ensure previous election victories.
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/ 27 February 2008
Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army guerrillas attacked a remote Sudanese village, killing 11 people and abducting 27 others, but the attack would not endanger peace talks under way, the military said on Wednesday. The attack on February 19 saw a group of LRA fighters make an incursion on the Sudanese town of Source Yubu.
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/ 27 February 2008
Custom and ethnicity allow young women to wear miniskirts, the National House of Traditional Leaders said on Wednesday in reaction to a recent attack on a woman wearing a short skirt at a Johannesburg taxi rank. The traditional leaders said the actions of the woman’s attackers were not only ”barbaric”, but also unconstitutional.