Trade union Solidarity will hold a mass meeting of its members employed at petrochemicals group Sasol on Monday to decide on Sasol’s latest wage offer. Solidarity’s members are currently voting on the offer, which was tabled by Sasol last Thursday.
Forty years ago during the Cultural Revolution, it took an edict from China’s then premier Zhou Enlai to protect the Potala Palace from the destruction of the infamous Red Guards. Now a new menace — tourism — threatens the jewel of Tibetan Buddhism, which has come to be the symbol of Tibet.
The prime interest rate and the variable mortgage interest rate are expected to reach 12,5% by year-end which means that house prices are likely to increase by around 12% year-on-year in nominal terms this year, according to banking group Absa.
European group Airbus will on Monday unveil new design plans for its troubled long-haul A350 plane, Thomas Enders, co-chief executive of Airbus’s parent company EADS, told reporters. The cost of developing the mid-sized jet could meanwhile more than double to about $10-billion, added the German boss.
The lights aren’t completely out in Lebanon yet. The bloggers in Beirut are still typing furiously away in front of their computer screens. Although Israeli air strikes have taken out much of the country’s infrastructure and cut electricity to parts of the capital, people are turning to the internet as one of their information sources — and to get their views out.
World leaders were concluding an annual economic summit on Monday in hopes that their statement blaming Middle East fighting on Hamas and Hezbollah and recognising Israel’s right to self defence would help break the cycle of violence.
The number of requests to a helpline on Lebanon for South Africans have been ”manageable”, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. The department set up a hotline for South Africans with Lebanese links, and by Sunday 20 South Africans trapped in that country had been helped by the department.
Australia’s John Senden recorded his first USPGA Tour win on Sunday at the John Deere Classic and clinched a berth in the British Open. Senden moved atop the leaderboard for good with a birdie on the 17th hole and parred the 18th after an impressive bunker shot to win the -million event.
Australia’s second Bledisloe Cup match against New Zealand in Brisbane later this month sold out on Monday, with officials hoping for a record crowd at Lang Park. The last 1 500 tickets for the July 29 Tri-Nations clash were snapped up less than an hour after they went on sale on Monday morning.
They have the flowing black robes to lend them dignity and gravitas. They have gavels to command attention from the wise guys in court. Now judges in New York have been given permission to carry guns while carrying out their duties. The ruling was prompted by a query from one of New York state’s 3 400 judges, who asked whether it was ”ethically permissible” to carry a firearm in court.