Making uKhahlamba (Drakensberg) out of a molehill.
Okkert Brits picked up South Africa’s second medal of the World Championships when his clearance of 5,85m was good for the men’s pole vault silver medal in Paris on Thursday.
In a key provision, the 1995 Labour Relations Act (LRA) created a two-tier hierarchy of specialist, high-status labour courts. Unfortunately, the system envisaged by the Act has been emasculated.
The sense of disappointment and frustration following the SADC summit last week matched that experienced after PW Botha’s notorious Rubicon speech. Instead of discussing the political and economic breakdown in Zimbabwe, as promised by the Tanzanian hosts, the leaders cheered Mugabe to the rafters.
Zuma’s pals in the press, Saddam’s lesser known offspring, the cow cops of India and Bristow-Bovey’s new book cover. Oom Krisjan puts that in his pipe and smokes it.
Earlier this year I came across a particularly relevant article by Prof Hennie Kotze which analysed public attitudes to the criminal justice system.
Nineteen children and one adult were killed on Thursday when a bridge crumbled on the western Indian coast, plunging a school bus and four other vehicles into a river.
A makeshift rocket of the sort used by Palestinian militant groups landed deep inside Israel on Thursday, hitting an industrial zone in the port city of Ashkelon, Israeli military sources said. It was the first time an improvised rocket fired from the Gaza Strip had reached so far into Israel.
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has rejected both bids for the 51% foreign equity stake in the second national operator to rival partially privatised telephone fixed-line monopoly Telkom, saying that they both fall short of the criteria.
Rwanda’s electoral body on Thursday rejected criticism by European Union observers to this week’s presidential election, accusing them of bias in favor of opposition candidate Faustin Twagiramungu.