A R2,1-billion contract for the construction of Cape Town’s 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium was on Tuesday awarded to a joint venture between Murray & Roberts and WBHO. The award, made by the city council’s bid adjudication committee, clears the way for the contractors to move on site.
A misunderstanding led to media reports that five professors from the University of Pretoria were being held hostage at a bio-diesel plant in a village outside Mafikeng, police said on Tuesday. The professors had apparently gone to the plant in Tontonyane village to fetch trees for their research project when confusion ensued.
The founder of Fastweb, Italy’s number-two telecommunications company, has reached 1,1-million Italian customers and is now seeking to bring internet television to as many of the world’s 300-million broadband users as he can reach with his new venture, an internet TV network called Babelgum.
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South African coach Mickey Arthur on Tuesday warned his team not to slip up in their matches against minnows The Netherlands and Scotland before they take on the Australia in the World Cup. ”I have always described the games against The Netherlands and Scotland as two scary games and we don’t want any slip-ups in these games,” Arthur said on Tuesday.
A two-week strike that crippled operations at a major bus company was called off on Tuesday following a settlement agreement between the company and the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union. ”In terms of the agreement, all employees will resume their normal duties tomorrow [Wednesday],” Autopax spokesperson Trechia Arlow said on Tuesday.
Five members of a British embassy group missing for two weeks in a remote part of Ethiopia have been released and are safe and well, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday.
Negotiations between the Richtersveld community and the government on an out-of-court land-claim settlement are back on track, according to community leader Willem Diergaardt. He was speaking after a 45-minute meeting on Tuesday morning with Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin, in the minister’s Cape Town office.
There is R600-million for apartheid victims who appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that has not been paid out as reparations, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. DA justice spokesperson Sheila Camerer said it was unacceptable for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Communication to turn a blind eye to people’s suffering.
Sudan on Tuesday rejected as invalid the findings of a United Nations human rights mission that accused Khartoum of orchestrating and taking part in gross violations in Darfur. Sudan’s Justice Minister Mohamed Ali Elmardi also told the UN’s Human Rights Council, which had dispatched the mission, that the humanitarian situation in Sudan’s vast western region was ”much more stable now”.
Eight babies removed from a filthy cellar in Orange Grove in Johannesburg — where they had allegedly been abandoned by their teenage mothers — are back with their mothers. Johannesburg General Hospital spokesperson Lungi Mvumvu said on Tuesday that the babies had not been admitted but examined as outpatients.