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/ 24 January 2006
The Oilgate matter is still under investigation by the police after the Freedom Front Plus filed charges against Imvume Management last year, the party said on Monday. The National Prosecuting Authority said earlier on Monday it had yet to receive a complaint by the Democratic Alliance about its handling of the Oilgate scandal.
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/ 24 January 2006
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Smaller municipalities instead of metro and district councils are needed to bring the government closer to the people, says the Freedom Front Plus. Speaking in Pretoria on Monday at the launch of the party’s election manifesto for the local government election, FF+ leader Pieter Mulder said South Africa is increasingly centralising its government functions.
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/ 24 January 2006
The Nelson Mandela metropolitan council has dropped plans to rebury the remains of President Thabo Mbeki’s late father, Govan, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. The municipality earlier announced plans to relocate his remains to the newly built Red Location Museum. However, the family objected.
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/ 24 January 2006
Left near a tree on a nondescript street on the outskirts of Moscow, the fake rock at the centre of the most embarrassing espionage scandal between Britain and Russia since the end of the Cold War looks innocuous enough. Light brown, 30cm wide, and hollowed out to allow a waterproof box to fit snugly inside, the rock on Monday took on Gibraltar-sized proportions.
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/ 24 January 2006
The supply-side response by the mining and resources industry to continued strong global demand for raw materials remains constrained by a shortage of people, equipment and supplies, BHP Billiton says. It also reported record half-year production of aluminium, copper, nickel and liquefied natural gas.
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/ 24 January 2006
Thirty-nine people were killed and 135 injured when a packed passenger train derailed on Monday in one of the worst accidents to date in the tiny Balkan state of Montenegro, officials said. "This is not a final toll," warned Deputy Prime Minister Miroslav Ivanisevic after an emergency session of the government.
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/ 24 January 2006
Leading American aircraft accident investigator Dr Norton Jungelson is once again in the news after an unruly passenger had to be restrained on a flight between Boston and Portland, Oregon. The passenger had been unable to gain access to any one of the aircraft’s six toilets, because these were being used by dozens of other passengers who had eaten an "out of date" flight meal.
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/ 24 January 2006
The Eastern Cape sprung a surprise on the country by being the only province to record an improvement in its 2005 matric results. The province’s performance rose from 53,5% to 56,7%. The results in other provinces, however, showed a decrease, dragging the national figures down from a 70,7% pass rate in 2004 to 68,3% last year.
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/ 24 January 2006
Nobody messes with Jacqui Taylor’s girls! Taylor is a feisty Rosettenville, Johannesburg mother of three and will not stand for her children receiving second best when they’ve put in the graft. She explains that this is what pushed her towards home schooling.
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/ 24 January 2006
Ten years after the dawn of democracy, a new survey of Grade 6 learning has shown that we have not overcome the legacy of decades of neglect and discrimination. Although the schools are now part of a non-racial system the evaluation reveals that five out of 10 schoolchildren are not achieving the expected learning outcomes in natural sciences.