Manuel warned a Cape Town hotel – which he did not name but said it was close to Parliament – which was charging R120 for a toasted sandwich that it would price itself out of the tourism market. Addressing pupils from Western Cape schools on Wednesday, Manuel noted that "the balance of payments situation" in South Africa "is not so bad".
The Sectoral Education and Training Authorities (Setas) have until Friday to apply for renewed ”certificates of establishment,” the Labour Department said. The Setas’s current period of establishment ends in March 2005 and the Skills Development Amendment Act required each skills training body to apply for the new certificate a year in advance.
The Greenpoint and Seapoint areas of Cape Town, known as relatively high crime areas in the city, are set to receive eight new CCTV cameras as part of an expansion of the municipal government’s crime-fighting efforts. Western Cape Premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk said that R4,3-million had been allocated for the project.
Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana was dismayed at the slow pace of negotiations between striking airport baggage handlers and Equity Aviation Services, his department said on Wednesday. He said the strike had dragged on for too long and should be resolved as a matter of urgency.
Three children and one adult were killed in a series of rocket strikes by insurgents on Baghdad on Tuesday night, a United States army officer said on Wednesday. ”Three rockets were fired. They were from outside the city. One landed in the south, one in the north and one in the city centre,” the officer said.
Meningitis has killed 403 people between 1 January and 7 March 2004 in Burkina Faso, where 2 060 cases of the disease have been reported. According to the Ministry of Health, the disease has reached epidemic proportions in two of the country’s 53 districts -– Diebougou in the south west and Nanoro in the central region.
The sale on Tuesday by the Botswana government of its holding, through its diamond mining arm Debswana, of 90-million pounds sterling in Anglo American, is seen as a move to halt a two year slide into deficit budgeting. The government, a 50% partner with De Beers in Debswana, will net 45-million pounds sterling — around 670-million pula.
Two South African hedge funds managed by Peregrine Capital have come in tops in terms of investment performance in the latest Hedge Fund Review conducted by Nedcor Retail Investments for the 12 months to end-January 2004.
The rape case against Judge Siraj Desai in Mumbai, India, was once again postponed on Wednesday as no judge was available, his lawyer said. ”The case cannot be heard. There is no judge,” said Desai’s lawyer RA Shaikh. Desai has denied any wrongdoing.
Microsoft is already known for its aggressive efforts to extend its global reach. Now, it’s taking those efforts one step further. The latest versions of the company’s dominant Windows operating system and Office software will soon be available in languages ranging from Ethiopia’s Amharic to Inuktitut of the Arctic’s Inuit.