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/ 30 January 2006
Unions whose members started striking at Transnet on Monday over restructuring at the parastatal said the process had to be conducted with the proper participation of unions. ”There’s been a credibility problem with management, they’ve conducted themselves in an arrogant, imposing and unilateral manner,” said SA Transport and Allied Workers Union spokesperson Randall Howard.
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/ 30 January 2006
Capote star Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon and the drama Crash stole top honours at Sunday’s Screen Actors’ Guild Awards, dealing a blow to Oscar favourite Brokeback Mountain. Witherspoon won best actress for her role as singer June Carter Cash in Walk the Line, while Hoffman was named best actor for his portrayal of United States author Truman Capote.
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/ 30 January 2006
South African cricket boss Gerald Majola has threatened to boycott tours of Australia if the racial abuse towards the Proteas continues, media reports said on Monday. Its website quoted Majola as saying: ”It is very serious and if it continues, yes, we would look very seriously about whether we return here for another series.”
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/ 30 January 2006
About 100 Zimbabweans are illegally crossing into South Africa daily in search of jobs, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Monday. It said South African authorities arrested about 25 of the border jumpers daily. This, however, did not stop people from illegally crossing the crocodile-infested Limpopo.
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/ 30 January 2006
Rescuers on Sunday abandoned hopes of finding any more survivors under the debris of an exhibition hall in Poland that collapsed on Saturday, killing at least 66 people. The rescue operation in the southern city of Katowice was called off on Sunday afternoon, following a night in which temperatures plunged to -15C.
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/ 30 January 2006
The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, has threatened to resign unless Hamas agrees to a government and policies that can win international recognition and continued foreign aid. Abbas has apparently drafted a resignation letter and has warned he will submit it if talks with Hamas do not produce an administration that can work with foreign governments.
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/ 30 January 2006
The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants for crimes against humanity was in disarray on Sunday night after a courtroom session in which Saddam’s half-brother was dragged away by guards, the defence team walked out, and the former Iraqi dictator was ejected following a slanging match with the new chief judge.
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/ 30 January 2006
At a time when concerns about global warming and the need for renewable energy sources are grabbing headlines the world over, it seems particularly regrettable that communities would be afflicted by the theft of solar panels. Yet, this is precisely what is happening in rural areas of Senegal, in West Africa.
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/ 30 January 2006
A South African struggle hero, Murphy "Patel" Morobe, defends a deputy-presidential shopping junket to the so-called United Arab Emirates; dead struggle heroes Govan Mbeki and Raymond Mhlaba supposedly to be illegally exhumed and reburied in the Voortrekker Monument; and more. There must be some connection between these events that have heralded in the first month of 2006.
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/ 30 January 2006
Global unemployment rose to record highs last year in spite of continued strong economic growth, meaning efforts to reduce poverty in a year of increased debt relief and development aid achieved very little. A global employment trends survey shows that half of the world’s 2,85-billion workers are existing on less than the -a-day poverty line — the same as a decade ago.