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/ 20 October 2005
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday condemned party members for the first time for burning T-shirts bearing the face of President Thabo Mbeki, South African Broadcasting Corporation television news reported.
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/ 20 October 2005
A strike by workers at the University of Limpopo will continue until management makes a new wage offer, their union said on Wednesday. The week-long strike by about 450 National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union members came after their demands for a 12% wage increase were not met.
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/ 20 October 2005
Clicks and the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union on Wednesday settled their wage dispute, the retail store said. The settlement ended a 13-day strike, which was called off immediately on Wednesday, at Clicks’s 290 stores in South Africa.
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/ 20 October 2005
Zimbabwe’s main opposition movement, which risks a split over whether to contest next month’s controversial Senate polls, on Wednesday began crisis talks to close ranks, party vice-president Gibson Sibanda said. He denied, however, that there are cracks in the party.
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/ 20 October 2005
South Africa’s biggest state-owned enterprise, Eskom, reported to Parliament on Wednesday that its group profit after tax has risen to almost R5,2-billion in the past financial year, the state news agency BuaNews reported. The electricity utility also exceeded its electrification target in the same period, the agency said.
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/ 20 October 2005
At a function held in Johannesburg last night the <i>Sunday Times</i> unveiled plans for their 100th anniversary in 2006, detailing the rollout of a nationwide “heritage project” and four 64-page centenary supplements. The project team, will create a series of outdoor "monuments" that bear testimony to the “people and events that have moulded and informed South African society” over the last 100 years.
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/ 20 October 2005
The Online Publishers Association (OPA), a grouping of 24 of South Africa’s most prominent online publishers, today revealed its readership figures for the third quarter of 2005. Indicating a 13,8 percent rise in local readership to 1,98-million readers.
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/ 20 October 2005
The discarded refrigerators have dotted the wealthiest and poorest neighbourhoods for weeks like fly-infested tombstones, some sealed with duct tape yet secreting foul odours. They are more than an eyesore. Authorities say the appliances pose health and environmental risks.
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/ 19 October 2005
Traditionally, cash for fixing roads has been dished out on the basis of the number of vehicles travelling up and down that stretch of bitumen or concrete or gravel. After all, roads with lots of people travelling on them are clearly roads that are important to the economy. Right? Not quite, warns Samson Muradzikwa, a rural development economist from the University of Cape Town.
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