The ongoing strike at Shoprite Checkers is costing both the retailer and the strikers money, company head Whitey Basson said in Johannesburg on Wednesday. ”I don’t know if we pay or under pay … but our job is to balance the interest,” Basson said.
Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday condemned high-profile killings in the country, saying it could lead to political instability. Several prominent politicians, including two governorship candidates, have been killed by unknown gunmen in the past weeks in Africa’s most-populous country ahead of general elections next year.
Tournament co-favourites Southern Gauteng and Western Province both had emphatic wins on the second day of the Spar Women’s Interprovincial Hockey championship being played at the Randburg Astroturf in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
It was a mixed night for former European Cup winners as Liverpool, AC Milan, Hamburg and Benfica progressed to the Champions League group stages but Red Star Belgrade bit the dust. The 1991 champions will have to settle for Uefa Cup football this season after they went down 2-1 at home to Milan, to lose 3-1 on aggregate.
Johannesburg serial child killer Sipho Dube swore when he was led to the cells after receiving 10 life sentences in the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday. ”The accused showed no mercy at all to his victims,” said Judge Seun Moshidi. ”The crimes were clearly premeditated and well-planned.”
South African low-fare airline kululu.com on Wednesday launched a credit card backed by Visa that will reward purchases with flying rewards. Kulula.com credit-card holders will earn kulula "moolah" on all their purchases, which matches real currency rand for rand. kulula moolah will be able to be used towards any available flight on the airline.
South Africa’s players in the manufacturing or sale of petroleum products have until September 17 — but effectively Friday September 15 — to lodge licence applications with the Department of Minerals and Energy Affairs, the chief director of hydrocarbons Nhlanhla Gumede said on Wednesday.
Senior members of the African National Congress in the Western Cape region will accompany politician Tony Yengeni, who has been convicted of fraud, when he reports to Pollsmoor prison on Thursday. ”The ANC provincial leadership will accompany Yengeni. We will be showing our solidarity with him,” said Max Ozinsky, the ANC’s deputy provincial secretary, on Wednesday.
South African trade union Solidarity on Wednesday welcomed the proposed enlarging of Sasol’s coal-to-liquid fuel operations. This comes after reports that Sasol and the government were engaged in talks regarding expansion of the operations.
Investigators recovered flight recorders from the charred wreckage of a Russian airliner on Wednesday as grief-stricken families prepared to travel to the site to identify remains. Relatives of the 170 victims, who included 45 children under 12, are due to fly out from Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg to the scene of the crash, 45km north of the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.