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.
Former South African president FW de Klerk is now ”communicating pretty freely” with people from his bed in an intensive-care unit, after a lengthy period under sedation, spokesperson Dave Steward of the FW de Klerk Foundation said on Monday.
First National Bank (FNB) will pay a total of R154-million to 50 000 ex-Saambou customers who were overcharged interest on their home loans, FNB announced on Monday. Saambou Bank was placed under curatorship in February 2002, when FNB acquired its home loans book.
South African President Thabo Mbeki has made a key contribution to making the African dream a reality and no more will Africa be perceived as a dark continent without any rule of law and development, the ruling African National Congress said on Monday in celebration of his 64th birthday.
The United States could consider new sanctions against North Korea if it goes ahead with plans to launch a long-range missile, US ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer said on Monday. Schieffer said that a test by the communist state would be a ”very, very serious matter” that could be brought before the United Nations Security Council.
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Only when former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial kicks off on July 31 will the defence teams and the National Prosecuting Authority know who will be the presiding judge. On Monday KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala said: ”You will see when he presides.”
A slightly built Zimbabwean University of Cape Town student, Tinashe Rioga (21), appeared briefly in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court on Monday in connection with an alleged aircraft hijacking attempt. Rioga was overpowered by fellow passengers on board a domestic flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg on Saturday morning.
Iran loses more than a billion dollars a year because petrol and refined oil products are smuggled to neighbouring countries, a senior police official was quoted as saying on Monday. "Every year, 1,8-billion litres of refined oil products worth 10,8-billion rials [$1,18-billion] are smuggled abroad," press reports quoted General Ali Soltani, director of the campaign against economic crimes, as saying.
Fifty-seven security guards have died since a strike in the industry began in March, the chairperson of a provident fund for the guards confirmed on Monday. Kevin Derrick, acting chairperson of the Private Security Industry Provident Fund, confirmed a report in Beeld newspaper, saying this was based on a study of newspaper reports since the strike began on March 23.