Wallaby hooker Brendan Cannon returned to the Waratahs lineup for Saturday’s Super 12 semifinal in an indication the Waratahs’ pack aims to muscle up against the Bulls. Springbok locks Bakkies Botha and Victor Matfield lead a large pack looking to bounce back from their last match against the Waratahs — a 42-12 loss in Sydney in round five.
The separation of party and state is one of the basic principles underlying our constitutional order.
The massive South African Airways (SAA) advertising account is likely to come up for tender some time this year and – if rumours hold true – incumbent HerdBuoys McCann-Erickson may find the going tough. The SAA account is one of the largest and most prestigious in the country. Pitching for it has been a close-run thing in the past.
Nearly a decade ago, the Kampala Declaration on Prison Conditions in Africa was drawn up to improve the situation of inmates across the continent. In an ironic twist, however, the capital that gave its name to the initiative has yet to meet the goals of the declaration. The same goes for the rest of Uganda. Prisons in the country are overcrowded and vermin-infested.
People in Pomfret are tired of talking about the mercenaries. ”We only know they went to get bread, that’s all we know,” says Maria Dala. The men who ”went to get bread” had not just gone round to the corner café. Hidden among thorn trees in the remoter reaches of North West province, Pomfret doesn’t have a café; the fruit and veg stall where Dala stands is the only retail business to be seen.
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Absa on Wednesday warned job seekers against a ”malicious” hoax e-mail advertising 600 positions at the banking group. Hundreds of jobless people reportedly converged on the Absa branch on the corner of Kruis and Market streets, Johannesburg, with their CVs at 9am on Wednesday to apply for the posts.
South Africa’s proposed ”smart” identity-card plan will receive about R270-million this year, Minister of Home Affairs Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told parliamentarians on Wednesday. The card is now ”at the final stages for Cabinet’s approval of such a procurement model”, the minister reported.
The first tropical storm of the eastern Pacific season is on an unusual, dangerous track toward the Central American coast on Wednesday. The United States National Hurricane Centre in Miami said that Tropical Storm Adrian could bring torrential rains to much of Central America in the coming days.
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) criticised South Africa’s cricket authorities on Wednesday over the way it awards franchises, saying the system was ”elitist” and ”retrogressive”. An ANCYL spokesperson said South Africa’s cricket authorities are not interested in a programme of transformation.