Thousands of Shoprite Checkers workers would resume their countrywide strike on Monday, the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union said. ”The strike is continuing today [Monday]. There hasn’t been any negotiations or talks of a meeting, so the strike will continue,” Saccawu negotiator Thoko Mchunu said.
Negligence by Eskom — and not sabotage — led to the widespread power outages in the Western Cape, media reports said on Monday. Because of this and the fact that Eskom had breached its licence conditions, the parastatal could see its licence conditions re-evaluated. These findings are contained in the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s final draft report.
A Cape Town lifesaver whose foot was bitten off by a shark at the weekend was in a serious but ”satisfactory” condition on Monday, the Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic said. ”He is still in the intensive-care unit, but I can say that his condition is satisfactory. It’s as expected,” said nursing manager Frankie Redfern.
A United Nations-brokered ceasefire to end the month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas went into effect at 7am South African time on Monday, and Lebanese security sources said the guns had fallen silent across southern Lebanon.
The circulation of consumer magazines shot up by 40 percent between July 2005 and June 2006, with five new titles launching in the first half of this year, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) results released on Friday.<
Sasol’s black economic empowerment deal, announced in June, marks the end of a phase in the Liquid Fuels Charter. All the major oil firms are "empowered" in the sense of having structured financial transactions that should see black people owning 25% of the liquid fuels industry by 2010.
For a monk the late Father Trevor Huddleston certainly seems to have sown a lot of wild oats in his early days. He might not have left his physical resemblance lying around the African continent, like many missionary forbears, but he sure left a lot of mothers certain that they did not want their first-born sons named after anyone but him. That, and the good works he left behind, are part of his huge legacy.
South Africa is not too shabby in the recycling stakes, ranking as one of the top recycling countries in the world. The paper recovery rate is 45% of total paper produced. "For a developing country, that is pretty good. South Africa is also a large [country]," says John Hunt of the Paper Recycling Association of South Africa.
Publishers launching new titles are smiling but their advertisers are not amused. Fienie Grobler finds out why circulation figures are causing a rift between the two.
As officials sweat over auditing the results of the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the politicians stay on familiar, albeit treacherous ground. They share the curious quality of public representatives who, until July 30, had never faced an electorate. But this does not make them any less adroit than more conventional politicians at the bluff and double bluff of building coalitions.