The Premier Soccer League (PSL) on Thursday announced that it had agreed to a deal with satellite-TV broadcaster SuperSport, which will pay a reported R300-million a year over the next five years for the rights to broadcast PSL matches. And all hell broke loose.
South African electricity tariffs are likely to keep rising steeply as the country tries to fund a massive spending programme to upgrade its power network, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Friday. Africa’s largest economy has suffered a series of power failures over the past couple of years as it struggles to keep up with faster economic growth.
A former Nigerian militia leader whose release has raised hopes of improved security in the oil-producing Niger Delta has pledged to continue his struggle for local control of oil wealth, but not in a criminal way. The situation in the region remains volatile despite the release of Mujahid Dokubo-Asari on Thursday.
Business and political leaders attending an annual conference meant to focus entrepreneurial attention on Africa hailed China’s and India’s huge appetite for raw materials as a powerful driving force to move the African economy up a gear. But the discussion at the World Economic Forum’s annual conference on Africa was tinged with anxiety.
The United Nations health agency and the international Red Cross warned on Friday that hospitals in the Gaza Strip were being drawn into the fighting there and were fast becoming overwhelmed by the number of wounded. ”Shots were fired inside or around four hospitals in Gaza,” World Health Organisation spokesperson Fadela Chaib said.
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The Springboks will draw on inspiration from former president Nelson Mandela when they meet Australia at Newlands on Saturday. The sides meet in a Mandela Challenge Plate match which doubles as the first Tri-Nations game of the 2007 season.
The government’s plans to centralise the public service, purportedly in the interests of improving ”delivery”, set alarm bells ringing, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said on Friday. ”The real aim must be bluntly stated: it is to centralise the African National Congress’s power, to erode the opposition’s chances of setting up alternative models of ‘delivery’,” she said.
The Gauteng transport department is playing double standards with the new number-plate system, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Friday. DA’s transport spokesperson James Swart said it is not clear how much the new number plates will cost motorists.