The continuous decline in economic activity and jobs in the Sedibeng district municipality, which includes Vereeniging, is giving rise to poverty, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Monday. Shilowa was speaking at the opening ceremony of National Council of Provinces’ (NCOP) sitting at the Saul Tsotetsi Recreation and Sports Centre in Sebokeng.
A Japanese construction worker has unearthed a plastic treasure box stuffed with 50-million yen (about R3,2-million), police said on Monday. The 43-year-old found the small box 20cm under the soil as he flattened a vacant lot with an excavator on Saturday in central Aichi prefecture.
Israel’s prime minister held an important meeting with the Palestinian president this week, but few things appear to interest Israelis more right now than Leonardo DiCaprio. The Oscar-nominated star flew into Israel early on Sunday with his girlfriend, supermodel Bar Refaeli, igniting a paparazzi storm.
Naturally I thought that I was rich at last. But something gave me pause for thought. It was the fifth time, at least, that I had been told through an anonymous email message that I had earned £1 000 000 (yes, one million pounds sterling, cash) in the space of two years.
Doctors have not indicated when ailing Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang will be discharged from hospital, her spokesperson said on Monday. Earlier on Monday, the Presidency said that President Thabo Mbeki had not met Tshabalala-Msimang’s husband to discuss relieving her of her duties due to her ill health.
The United Nations copyright agency saw a 15% increase in ”cybersquatting” complaints last year. The World Intellectual Property Organisation, which handles arbitration for more than half of the world’s cybersquatting disputes each year, registered 1 823 complaints in 2006.
Ford has agreed to sell its iconic Aston Martin brand for just more than £470-million (R6,65-billion) to a British-led consortium, the United States firm said on Monday. The luxury car maker is famous for its long-running association with the James Bond blockbuster films.
Trustees of the late Brett Kebble’s estate had by Monday not been formally notified that the Western Cape’s African National Congress (ANC) branch would keep the mining magnate’s donations. If the party refused to pay back the millions Kebble had given it, the trustees would turn to the Insolvency Act, said an attorney.
Rules at Oprah Winfrey’s posh school at Henley-on-Klip near Johannesburg apparently make a reformatory look like a holiday resort, the Witness reported on Monday. Its website said that was the word from upset parents, who felt the school rules made it difficult for them to keep contact with their children.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi urged the kidnappers of five Europeans and eight locals on Monday to give them up, saying the hostages were not the original target of an attack in the remote north. ”I do not believe these people were targeted. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Meles said in his first public comments on the kidnap that took place 11 days ago.