The Democratic Alliance (DA) has pledged support for a separate bargaining chamber for health workers proposed by the African National Congress (ANC) health committee. ”There is no doubt that nurses and doctors should get a pay boost above the inflation rate,” DA Gauteng health spokesperson Jack Bloom said in a statement.
The bids are in. It is going to be Glasgow or Abuja for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The one is a nest of corruption and inter-religious factionalism, with abject poverty, elections nobody trusts and an oil wealth that has been shamefully squandered and scandalously expropriated. But that’s Scotland for you.
One can understand why Bloemfontein was originally a popular choice for the Absa Cup final before Durban finally won the right to host the South African football season-ender. And the reason was not just because it is the most central city in the country.
Lewis Hamilton was this week riding the crest of a wave as the youngest driver to lead the world-championship rankings after his superb second place in the Spanish Grand Prix, held on May 13. On Sunday, he could become the first in grand prix history to win through the streets of Monte Carlo on his first outing.
Shaun de Waal reviews Charles van Onselen’s new book The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath
Shaun de Waal reviews the film adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s novel <i>Perfume</i>
The Scorpions have not searched police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s office or obtained a warrant to do so, their spokesperson, Panyaza Lesufi, said on Friday. This follows a report in <i>Beeld</i> newspaper on Friday that Selebi’s office was searched as part of an investigation by the Scorpions into the police chief’s alleged involvement in crime.
Darryl Accone examines the culture and commercial imperatives of book awards
Clubbing in the new South Africa is still a divided affair, reports Kwanele Sosibo
Rising numbers of women in Britain are seeking state-funded cosmetic surgery on their genitals, doctors said on Friday. Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said the number of ”labial reductions” carried out in National Health Service hospitals had doubled to 800 a year over five years.