Massive investments to upgrade and build new infrastructure ahead of the 2010 soccer World Cup could spark a revival in South Africa’s overcrowded and underfunded cities, urban planners said on Thursday. ”There will be a lasting legacy beyond four years from now,” Andrew Boraine, chairperson of the South African Cities Network, said at a news briefing.
As the rest of Zimbabweans readjust to life under a redenominated currency introduced by the central bank in an operation codenamed "Project Sunrise", the sun has virtually set for a new breed of entrepreneurs who had turned the need for consumers to carry around large amounts of the old money into a thriving business.
Unions that have launched strikes at the Kumba mining company have taken separate paths since Kumba made an offer on Wednesday. While labour union Solidarity said that it had accepted 7,75% and 8,75% pay hike offers, the National Union of Mineworkers, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and the Black Allied Mining and Construction Workers’ Union have rejected it.
Stand-in captain Ashwell Prince and AB de Villiers scored undefeated fifties to guide South Africa to a healthy 231 for four wickets at tea on the opening day of the second Test against Sri Lanka on Friday. Coming together with their side in trouble on 70-4, the pair dominated the afternoon with an aggressive unbroken 161-run partnership.
Waves of Israeli air strikes destroyed three highway bridges north of Beirut on Friday, forcing United Nations relief agencies to cancel several convoys of aid for the 900Â 000 people displaced by the conflict. The Israeli air force’s bombing of bridges in the Christian heartlands north of the capital cut off the main coastal highway to Syria.
The JSE was ensconced in positive territory in noon trade on Friday, with resources giant Anglo American — the bourse’s heaviest-weighted stock — roaring to a record high after the company reported record results. Relief that Thursday’s rate hike was in line with expectations and firmer global markets helped the bourse overall.
A leading business official has said Zimbabwe’s struggling industry looks set to recover after the central bank eased exchange controls to let exporters retain the bulk of their earnings in bank accounts. ”Give it another 12 months and we will be back on our feet,” said Callisto Jokonya, president of the main Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries.
As an ordained rainbow pessimist, last week’s aggravated pronouncements by President Mbeki sent my worst imaginings into a tailspin. As I read our president’s rousing "wake-up" speech to his ANC colleagues, a feeling of intense dismay slowly cloaked me. Here was I, content to go on feeding my racist prejudices from a seemingly endless smorgasbord.
”The anointing has stopped the camera from working,” a burly man in sunglasses, a dark pinstriped suit and driving a white BMW X5 told Mail & Guardian photographer Oupa Nkosi. In fact, the ”anointing” — the Pentecostal movement’s buzzword for God’s enabling power — had to be supplemented by mechanical and human muscle.
Many university faculties are scrambling to repair their reputations, after the Council on Higher Education accredited only seven of 23 master’s in education (MEd) programmes on offer in South Africa. The MEd is a crucial component of university education qualifications, providing a platform for schoolteachers seeking promotion, and for students aiming at an academic career.