How convenient would it be to have one website where you can compare prices between all South African airline companies? And, when the need arises, between a wide array of consumer goods and services? As far Daniel Martins is concerned, that website has just turned into reality.
The first assets of financial services company Fidentia Holdings will be auctioned off in Cape Town next month, the media reported on Thursday. It said the auction on May 19 would be held at 1 Waterford Place, Century City. Fidentia curators had appointed Auction Alliance as the auctioneer.
South Africa’s strong economic growth of the past decade masks a series of ”major structural weaknesses” needing urgent attention if this is to continue, warned Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Thursday.
South Africa’s newest — and richest — journalism prize was on Thursday awarded to two investigative reporters of Beeld newspaper. Mail & Guardian and Sunday Tribune investigative teams share the second prize of R100Â 000.
”I did my best,” Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said in an interview with the media as he looked back on eight years in office and rejected foreign and domestic criticism of the country’s flawed polls last weekend. ”The day I meet God I’ll tell him: not everything was perfect, but I did my best,” the president said in his office late on Wednesday.
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Now is not the time to take hasty decisions that might be regretted later — that’s how Haroon Lorgat, convenor of selectors, responded on Thursday to South Africa’s disappointing exit from the Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean. South Africa lost by seven wickets to Australia in the semifinal in St Lucia on Wednesday after being bowled out for 149.
Hassan Abdallah stood in front of a group of young girls wearing bright dresses to greet the head of the United Nations refugee agency at Um Shalaya, a camp for Chadian refugees in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region. Raising his arms high and urging the girls to repeat after him, he chanted: ”This is our land. Long live Chad.”
A protester bit a police officer in clashes during service-delivery protests north-west of Pretoria the day before Freedom Day, said Pretoria police. Police used rubber bullets to disperse crowds in Soshanguve, Winterveldt and Hammanskraal north-west of the city, but the protesters later regrouped.
The man who held eight people hostage and wounded a police officer at the Pretoria News building will appear in court on Monday on charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and possession of an unlicensed firearm, police said.
The process of identifying potential candidates to lead the African National Congress (ANC) has officially begun within the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). ”The discussion is being declared open,” said Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi at a media briefing in Johannesburg on Thursday.