Shoprite Checkers and the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (Saccawu) would begin talks on Friday to end a pay strike by workers, the union said. Saccawu has demanded the greater of a wage increase of R300 or 10%, and improved working conditions. Shoprite has offered R265.
Leaders of Côte d’Ivoire’s main opposition parties and rebels on Thursday jointly rejected anew President Laurent Gbagbo’s attempts to extend his mandate beyond an October deadline set for elections. The country’s main opposition parties and the New Forces rebels roundly accused Gbagbo of wanting to seize power.
Search-and-rescue teams kept up frantic efforts on Friday to save thousands marooned by fatal flash floods in south-west Ethiopia where relief workers reported near-total devastation. Already, nearly 900 people in southern, eastern and northern Ethiopia have been reported dead or missing in the past two weeks.
Subconsciously or not, golf’s stragglers settle in for a quiet, tidy conclusion to their work, risking little and consolidating their places. It’s the way golf is. It’s a great sport, but is primarily a vehicle to shift shirts, clubs and awful trousers. And the workers at the coalface are part of that, seriously well paid for being no better, mostly, than competent.
An oil slick in the central Philippines that has devastated more than 300km of coastline is likely to spread much further unless international help is deployed quickly to salvage the ship that caused the disaster, officials warned on Thursday.
A little more than a year ago it did not exist. Today it is viewed more than 100-million times a day and has become one of the most spectacular success stories of the internet in recent years. Now YouTube has announced plans that observers say could revolutionise the music industry and threaten even the online music giant iTunes.
A litany of alleged human rights and environmental abuses in developing markets has made Coca-Cola a cause célèbre. The latest issue to hobble the company is the renewed allegation that its flagship drink in India contains 27 times the maximum permitted amount of pesticides.
One of the most notorious crimes in recent American history returned to transfix the country on Thursday with the arrest of a 41-year-old man in connection with the 1996 murder of six-year-old child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. Public fascination with the story was fuelled by the suggestion that her parents were involved in her murder.
Jabulani Sikhakhane, who has 18 years’ journalistic experience, has been appointed as editor of Business Report, Independent Newspapers said on Thursday. Sikhakhane’s relationship with the Independent Group dates back to 1989 when he was a financial journalist for The Star.
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s deadline for the country’s currency changeover has created turmoil on the market amid fears that many institutions will not meet it. The central bank is in a mad rush to mop up old bearer cheques amid revelations that there are still many people holding on to large sums of old money.