The head of the commission into Western Cape taxi violence clashed on Wednesday with a senior legal adviser to the City of Cape Town on the issue of witness safety. The confrontation took place in the wake of the slaying at the weekend of a prominent figure in the taxi industry, who only days earlier had testified to the commission.
Thousands of workers in the metal and engineering industries will start protests on Thursday, building up to a full-scale strike on July 12, trade union Solidarity said on Wednesday. The protests are over a wage dispute with employees, who are offering 1% less than the amount demanded by the union.
The rape case against Orlando Pirates player Benedict ”Tso” Vilakazi was postponed on Wednesday for a day by the Johannesburg Regional Court. This was after his lawyers asked for time to bring an urgent application at the high court to review the regional court’s decision to go ahead with the trial.
Soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have arrested the manager of a local radio station in the central Kasai Oriental province, the head of a private radio association said on Wednesday. ”Fortunat Kasongo, manager of the ‘Mon sillon de Boya’ station in Boya was arrested by a dozen soldiers on Tuesday afternoon and neither his family nor the radio have heard anything since,” Freddy Mulongo said.
By mixing sunlight with imagination the students from the Ningizimu School for children with mental handicaps have created magic, finding treasure in the rubbish and debris of daily life, writes Dianne Tipping-Woods.
London was declared the winner of the contest to stage the 2012 Olympics by International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge on Wednesday. London defeated Paris in the fourth and final round of voting after Moscow, New York and Madrid had been eliminated in the three previous rounds.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party have resolved their differences with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) over news coverage of labour issues at a meeting in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
London pulled off a stunning come-from-behind victory to beat Paris and win the 2012 Olympics in Singapore on Wednesday. Moscow, New York and Madrid were all eliminated in three rounds of voting by the IOC members present, leaving London and Paris as the two survivors and one of them sure of victory.
Russia’s space agency has signed a space tourist contract with United States millionaire Gregory Olsen, a spokesperson said on Wednesday, in a deal that would make the 60-year-old scientist only the third tourist to visit the international space station.
Deep Impact — the Nasa mission that notched a hole in a comet called Tempel 1 on Monday — was a stunning exercise in human cooperation, celestial sharpshooting and cosmic curiosity.