The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has announced it is throwing its full weight behind the campaign to make sure that every eligible voter is registered to vote in next year’s national and provincial elections. Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal each have more than two million people that still need to register.
Futures-related buying propelled the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) into the black on Thursday morning, with the market showing gains across the board in noon trade. Volumes were extremely light, with less than half a billion rands’ worth of shares changing hands.
The tussle for media group New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) has hotted up with Phaphama Holdings, Nail’s controlling shareholder, announcing that it plans to support the Tiso consortium in its bid for Nail. The Tiso consortium is one of two consortia bidding for the media group.
The National Union of Mineworkers on Wednesday accused gold producer Durban Roodepoort Deep of being hell-bent on retrenching its employees even though alternatives existed. ”It has become clear that the company wants nothing else but retrenchments,” NUM spokesperson Moferefere Lekorotsoana said in a statement.
A fishing trawler which sparked a marathon chase across the Southern Ocean after it was accused of illegally fishing the endangered Patagonian Toothfish is due in Western Australia on Friday. The long-line trawler <i>Viarsa</i> is expected in Fremantle for an investigation into Australia’s accusations that it had been fishing illegally.
As we all know, nothing succeeds like excess, so the Dodge Tomahawk should prove a real winner. After all, what’s more excessive than a 375 kW motorcycle with an 8 300cc Dodge Viper V10 engine that costs just under R4 million and can’t even be ridden?
Delta has launched a new offering in the compact MPV class with the Opel Meriva, smaller brother to the Zafira. The Meriva uses the crafty FlexSpace seating system to rapidly configure its interior without removing any seats
Ariel Sharon’s cabinet has agreed to extend Israel’s controversial ”security fence” to encircle Jewish settlements deep in the West Bank, moving closer to formally annexing hundreds of square kilometres of Palestinian territory. Palestinians say it will wreck the possibility of creating a viable Palestinian state.
Lawyers campaigning to win more than £10-million compensation from the Ministry of Defence for hundreds of Kenyan women who say they were raped by British soldiers said yesterday that they would urgently investigate fresh allegations about the authenticity of some of the claims.
Saddam Hussein was reportedly seen in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk five days ago and is moving in increasingly smaller circles in order to evade capture, Jalal Talabani, a leading member of Iraq’s governing council, said yesterday.