The wage dispute between the National Union of Mineworkers and South Africa’s gold and coal miners, represented by the Chamber of Mines, appear to have shown some progress following four days of mediation this week by the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa crawled into positive territory at the opening on Friday, aided by a weaker currency which lifted heavyweight rand hedge
stocks.
US President George Bush was due to pay a brief official visit to Uganda on Friday on the penultimate leg of a whirlwind five-nation tour of Africa.
Scientists from around the world gather in Paris this Sunday for an update on the war against Aids, gloomily aware that good news will be rare and that, after more than two decades, they still lack basic knowledge about their foe.
They call him God’s architect, though he is renowned for leaving his most important creation less than half finished.
Scientists want to spend more than £12-million (R144-million) in a 10-year programme to explore life’s last great mysterious domain — the treetops.
President George Bush conceded yesterday America had ”a security issue in Iraq” as polls revealed public opinion growing increasingly sceptical about the presence and purpose of US troops in the Gulf.
The black economic empowerment (BEE charter) for the country’s financial sector is expected to be finalised before the end of September.
As United States President George W Bush soars away from our country, one has to wonder whether he will really know more about the African continent at the end of his safari than he did at the start.
The enactments of troubling incidents, such as necklace murders, that are beginning to emerge around South Africa are perhaps a cathartic way of putting into action the struggle to find language that expresses the frustrations, helplessness, disempowerment and dire poverty of people whose lives have become meaningless.