Representatives of striking security guards and industry employers were meeting at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration on Monday afternoon in the latest efforts to end the pay dispute. ”They are now meeting,” South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union spokesperson Ronnie Mamba said.
Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, the architect of United States-China policy and Washington’s point man on Sudan, resigned on Monday to take up a position with Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs. "It is time for me to step down," Zoellick told a news conference at the State Department, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice by his side.
Support for a third term for President Thabo Mbeki has not cost South African National Civics Organisation (Sanco) leader Mlungisi Hlongwane his job. National executive committee member Donovan Williams said a Business Day article reporting that Hlongwane and deputy general secretary Master Mahlobogoane had been suspended was wrong.
New fire trucks bought by Cape Town’s municipality are put together with ”pop rivets”, a probe into the state of city’s overstretched fire services has been told. The claim is contained in an interim report, made public on Monday, by a committee headed by councillor Debbie Schafer.
Militiamen loyal to Somalia’s Islamic courts raided cinemas, switched off the generators and expelled audiences watching the World Cup, before announcing that showing Western films in public had been banned, officials said on Monday. A day before Islamic Sharia law took effect in Jowhar heavily armed Islamic fighters shut down all public cinema halls until further notice.
Somalia’s dominant Islamist militia on Monday imposed Sharia law in the former warlord stronghold of Jowhar, making good on their vows to bring Islamic theocracy to the shattered Horn of Africa nation. The Joint Islamic Courts militia named three hard-line preachers to chair the Jowhar administration.
World Cup fever is kicking up already-strong demand for flat-panel televisions as consumers desiring a sharper picture of matches are finding lower prices and marketing pitches honed for soccer fans. At a Yamada electronics store in Tokyo, TVs are awash in blue — the Japanese national team’s jersey colour.
The United States Central Intelligence Agency warned the British government in 2003 about one of the suicide bombers who launched attacks in London two years later, according to a new book by a US intelligence specialist. The CIA warned that Mohammed Sidique Khan was that year planning attacks on synagogues on the East Coast of the United States.
The South African Human Rights Commission has found that South Africa has two basic education systems — the dysfunctional and impoverished schools used by the majority of children, and those for the privileged minority comprising well-resourced islands of educational excellence.
Primedia Limited announced on Monday that it had received approval from the competition commission last Wednesday to purchase the remaining 14% of 94.7 Highveld Stereo, which it acquired from Mineworkers’ Investment Company (MIC) in November 2005.