Every time a crime-trends statistics report is released, there follows a round of indignant finger-pointing.
African miner Randgold Resources expects to upgrade planned production at its new mine in Côte d’Ivoire, helping the firm to boost output by over 50% by 2011. The firm, currently operating two mines in Mali, plans to ramp up production to around 650 000 ounces a year by 2011 from 400 000 ounces currently,
Talks in a bid to settle a pay dispute between Eskom and three unions continued into Thursday evening. ”Negotiations may go on until very late in the night,” said Solidarity spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans. ”We are positive about reaching a settlement.”
The eNatis vehicle registration system website had not been hacked, the Department of Transport said on Thursday. ”The Department of Transport has condemned in the strongest terms the recent news reports purporting that the eNatis website has been hacked,” spokesperson Collen Msibi said in a statement.
The majority of unions have signed government’s multi-term salary agreement and this is binding on all parties who have not yet signed the agreement, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Thursday. She said the possibility of charges being brought forward against workers who intimidated other workers still existed.
Venus Williams strode into the semifinals of Wimbledon on Thursday while tournament organisers cast anxious glances to the sky. Her younger sister Serena, beaten by Justine Henin in the quarters on Wednesday, rates Venus as the best grasscourt player left in the draw.
Hundreds of animal rights campaigners on Thursday protested against the annual bull runs due to begin on Saturday in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona. Demonstrators, numbering about 1 500, dressed in nothing but underwear carried posters reading ”Torture is not culture”.
Two suspended Ekurhuleni metro police officers arrested for assault and allegedly interfering with a colleague’s duties would be freed on Thursday to allow further investigation, prosecutors said. The two are part of a trio who are suing Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride for harassment, discrimination and constructive dismissal.
Thirteen years after the African National Congress came to power promising to right the wrongs of colonialism and apartheid by returning lands seized by white settlers, the snail’s pace of delivery is prompting poor black communities to fend for themselves through land grabs.
Boeremag accused Jurie Vermeulen poses a danger to society and it is not in the interests of justice to release him on bail, a Pretoria High Court judge ruled on Thursday. Vermeulen (39) submitted that his five-year-old son needs him and is likely to suffer a permanent personality disorder if he does not get to know his father.