The Western Cape provincial working committee of the African National Congress has temporarily suspended Kannaland Municipality Mayor Jeffrey Donson as an ANC member, pending a hearing. According to reports, Donson, who moonlights as a DJ, was confronted by taxpayers over the alleged use of public money to fund this other career.
Hewlett-Packard says it is yielding to large clients’s demands and expanding Linux distribution — a decision that could force Microsoft to reconsider some of its corporate pricing for Windows. HP announced a partnership with Novell this week and plans to package its SuSE version of Linux with computers bound for corporate clients.
South Africa’s neighbours who formed an anti-apartheid alliance and sheltered black liberation groups bear deep scars from a backlash by the former white racist regime in Pretoria whose stint in power ended a decade ago.
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Western Cape Premier and New National Party leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk has emerged as the most popular premier candidate in that province in a Markinor poll conducted in January/February. In KwaZulu-Natal, the African National Congress’s top-ranking candidate for the legislature, S’bu Ndebele, won the popularity stake in the poll.
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The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was riding high just before noon on Thursday on the back of a softer rand and stronger European markets. Dealers said that bargain hunting was also being seen with several stocks looking cheap after being sold off over the past couple of days.
Malawi joined other countries on Wednesday in commemorating World Tuberculosis Day. However, the efforts of Malawian officials to curb tuberculosis (TB) are being dogged by the theft of TB drugs from state hospitals — a problem that is leading to the development of a multi-drug-resistant strain of TB.
South African producer prices for all commodities fell by 1% in the 12 months to the end of February from a 1,4% decline for the 12 months to the end of January, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. On the month, the PPI was up 0,5%, compared with no change in January.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu visited an inmate on Texas’s death row on Wednesday, saying it would be ”one of the greatest tragedies” if the man was executed and describing capital punishment as an ”absurdity that brutalises society”.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) is considering how the International Transport Workers’ Federation could help its strike against Equity Aviation, a statement said on Wednesday. Further negotiations last week at the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration were fruitless.
South African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is disappointed by a pharmaceutical company’s response to the government’s plans to reduce drug prices in South Africa. ”Bully tactics adopted by the company will not undermine our effort to make medicines more affordable,” said Tshabalala-Msimang.