Transnet’s plans to boost freight rail capacity include a feasibility study on a rail ring around greater Johannesburg to reduce delays, media reports said on Thursday. Moira Moses, the group executive for Transnet projects, said in a presentation: ”We want to build a new hub [to replace City Deep].” This proposal still needs to be presented to the Transnet board.
A major, new problem popped up on the International Space Station on Wednesday as space shuttle astronauts finished installing a new solar-power unit — the failure of key computers that could in an extreme scenario force the crew off the station, officials said.
The former head of the Congress of South African Trade Unions told striking public-sector workers on Wednesday that negotiations should take place at the table and not on the streets. Mbhazima Shilowa’s comments were a sign of deepening differences between the ruling African National Congress and its allies.
Almost 300-million people worldwide are now accessing the internet using fast broadband connections, fuelling the growth of social networking services such as <a href="http://www.myspace.com" target="_blank" class="standardtext"><i>MySpace</i></a> and generating thousands of hours of video through websites such as <a href="http://www.youtube.com" target="_blank" class="standardtext"><i>YouTube</i></a>.
Since April this year, the African National Congress Youth League and trade union Solidarity have been discussing whether the youth should be exempt from affirmative action. Here, two youth leaders — Solidarity’s Dirk Hermann and the league’s Zizi Kodwa — debate whether affirmative action should apply to those born after 1994.
"The majority of South Africans, I think, live a very mimicked lifestyle." Kwanele Sosibo speaks to artistic young people at a Jo’burg inner-city art gallery about the possibilities that being South African holds, and wonders whether the youth have arrived at a common identity 14 years after the advent of democracy.
Most university students today are concerned about their individual economic freedom. Graduates no longer root for the preservation of a national culture founded on the principles of ubuntu and those enshrined in the Freedom Charter. Does "The people shall share" ring a bell?
Raenette Taljaard, Tshilidzi Marwala, Stuart Wilson, Zandile Mciza, Karin Jacobs, Mamokgethi Setati and Carol Simon.
Now here’s a publication to warm our mid-winter hearts. Here are 100-and-something young South Africans you have to take to lunch. And if not to lunch, certainly to have in your sights and on your Rolodexes. This is the second year of our publication and it grows from strength to strength.
"Say <i>amakwerrre-kwerrre</i>," I was told by a domestic worker I interviewed. As if by rolling my tongue, her correction of my pronunciation would enable me to express the requisite hatred and anger towards foreigners. This is the unthinking reality that confronts thousands of refugees who flee to South Africa in the hope of attaining a better life for themselves.