Police corralled up to 40 000 protesters inside a fenced village on Tuesday in the biggest showdown so far with demonstrators trying to disrupt Israel’s disengagement from Gaza. The protesters had tried to march on Gush Katif, the largest group of settlements in the Gaza Strip, but were stopped after about three kilometres at Kesar Maymon.
Mining group Kumba Resources on Wednesday announced that iron ore exports at Saldanha Bay had been halted following a breakdown of a ship loader operated by the South African Port Operations. Repairs are under way and indications are that the ship loader will resume operations by the weekend.
They used to go there to get stoked, amped and pumped. But now that one of Europe’s greatest surfing waves has mysteriously disappeared from the waters off the northern Spanish village of Mundaka, the world’s surfers feel it is a complete bummer.
The son of the president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, an international playboy, has gone on a spending spree in Cape Town, media reports said on Wednesday. Teodorin Nguema Obiang (34) has splashed millions of rands on house renovations, cars, hotel accommodation and entertainment.
Nearly 25Â 000 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the two years since the invasion, and four times as many died at the hands of United States-led forces as from suicide bombers and other insurgents, according to a detailed study of the human cost of the conflict.
Does criticism of the minister of education for sending her children to private schools infringe the children’s rights to privacy? A reader brought this question to the attention of the ombud in the context of a column that laid into Minister Naledi Pandor for a hypocritical lack of faith in the system she oversees. The Democratic Alliance has also been beating this drum.
Even a seasoned political operator like Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair will have found it difficult to swallow the relative failure of this year’s Group of Eight (G8) summit meeting to produce any significant movement on the issue of climate change. Blair began his campaign for a different outcome more than a year ago, when he took over the presidency of the G8 group.
"Over the last three weeks, <i>M&G Business</i>’s Kevin Davie has written a series of articles relating to the National Bargaining Council for the Clothing Manufacturing Industry. Much of it is based on incorrect information selectively fed to Davie by mischievous employers," writes Andre Kriel, deputy secretary general of the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
World Environment Day was first held in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. On the same day, the General Assembly adopted a resolution to create a global environmental programme.
In stark contrast to the draft black economic empowerment Codes of Good Practice released two weeks ago, the draft health-care charter has laid out aggressive ownership equity targets for the sector. The Department of Trade and Industry launched its draft empowerment Codes of Good Practice recently, setting a target of 25,1% of black equity ownership within the next 10 years.