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/ 11 October 2003
The Public Service Commission report that recommends the head of the police secretariat be removed from his post because of incompetence is not for public consumption, says Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula. Nqakula said that the report is ”an internal matter”
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/ 11 October 2003
The Dutch Reformed Church tower in Cape Town that makes a dominee’s wife think of a giant phallus is set to stay, but the debate on the issue is not yet over. The controversy arose when the wife claimed the tower was an occult image of a penis ”continually having sex with the goddess of the sky”.
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/ 11 October 2003
South Africa needs to urgently address issues such as black economic empowerment and land reform as well as invest in education to avoid going the way of Zimbabwe, said Mail & Guardian CEO Trevor Ncube on Friday.
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/ 11 October 2003
The South African labour market is flexible as it is the eighth least regulated of 130 nations surveyed by the World Bank, says Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana. Mdladlana said businesses in South Africa faced fewer labour regulations than their counterparts in Ireland, Switzerland or Australia.
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/ 11 October 2003
Six lions will be released into the wild near in South Africa’s Western Cape province within the next two months, 150 years after a hunter shot the last free lion in the region.
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/ 11 October 2003
The two unions who threatened to down tools at the SABC have both accepted the public broadcaster’s wage offer. The Media Workers’ Association of South Africa (Mwasa) said on Friday it had accepted the SABC’s 8,55% offer and had officially called off the strike.
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/ 11 October 2003
Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Friday opened Swedish aircraft maker Saab’s Gripen production line for the South African Air Force. South Africa is buying 28 of the advanced Swedish aircraft to use for, among other tasks, peace support operations in Africa.
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/ 11 October 2003
The fundamental challenge in South Africa today is transforming the current economic growth path and overcoming the dual economy, SA Communist party secretary-general Blade Nzimande said on Friday.
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/ 11 October 2003
A groundbreaking study on business ethics in South Africa has found many top listed companies face high levels of risk through paying ”mere lip service” to ethics management. The survey found ”worrying ethical lapses” in many of them.
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/ 11 October 2003
China yesterday began the countdown towards its first manned space mission, announcing a three-day launch window from next Wednesday for the Shenzhou V (Divine Vessel).