The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) on Tuesday reported an 18% increase in revenue for the year ended March 31 2005, to R3,314-billion from R2,711-billion a year ago. Profit after tax rose to R240,3-million from R1,7-million, according to the SABC’s chief financial officer, Robin Nicholson.
An independent police complaints panel said on Tuesday it will finish a report into the fatal London shooting of a Brazilian man wrongly suspected of being a suicide bomber by the end of the year — but the findings will not be published until all other proceedings linked to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes are completed.
Fifty-six percent of crime in the Johannesburg Metro Police Department takes place in the licensing department, city traffic chief Chris Ngcobo told Parliament on Tuesday. ”This is where staff collaborate with criminals, especially with the licensing and delicensing of vehicles,” he said.
Former Springbok rugby player Howard Watt, who died earlier this week at the Amberfield frail-care home in Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, was the last surviving member of the 1937 tour to Australia and New Zealand, and the last surviving pre-World War II Springbok.
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The Congress of South African Trade Union’s (Cosatu) central committee says, after discussing the situation around African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma, it is convinced that it is dealing with ”a concerted politically inspired campaign” aimed at destroying Zuma’s political career.
Nasa is using the Hubble space telescope to hunt for desirable locations to build a human base on the moon. The agency is scouting a variety of sites on the lunar surface for large deposits of useful minerals that astronauts could turn into air and power to help humans live in space.
The wage deal between the Chamber of Gold Mines and labour unions was signed on Tuesday. The United Association of SA (Uasa) said in a statement that the wage deal has been formalised. Uasa, the National Union of Mineworkers and Solidarity declared a dispute with the chamber earlier this month after failed wage negotiations.
Metro police chiefs across South Africa are calling for metro police officers to be held more accountable for their actions. Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride said in Parliament that it was unfair to expect police chiefs to maintain disciple with their hands tied behind their backs.
The public’s right to participate in the law-making process came under scrutiny in the Constitutional Court on Tuesday. Lobby group Doctors for Life (DFL) is arguing that amendments to four health laws were passed without the proper participation by the public, called for by the Constitution.
Imagine a world where farmers greet the dawn from their beds and cows milk themselves. An Australian research consortium said on Tuesday that such a nirvana was not such a distant dream. They are working on a system that attracts cows to the milking shed and milks them with automated equipment while they feed.