Volkswagen South Africa’s fully built car export programme is now concentrating on the Asia Pacific region as a more attractive option than Europe, the company said on Tuesday.
Liberia on Tuesday began its first full day without Charles Taylor as president, as efforts were set to intensify to get a lasting ceasefire and begin distribution of urgently needed humanitarian aid.
Our dreaming will, as it has begun to do already, destroy the conditions necessary for human life on Earth. Were we governed by reason, we would be on the barricades today, dragging the drivers of Range Rovers and Nissan Patrols out of their seats and occupying and shutting down the coal-burning power stations.
The motor industry should anticipate a ”massive” strike next month if the upcoming wage negotiations with employers do not yield positive results, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) said on Monday.
South African minimum wages for domestic workers are set to increase by 8% from November 1, the Department of Labour announced on Monday.
Charles Taylor stepped down as president of Liberia and flew into exile last night as three US warships neared the country’s coast, boosting hopes that US marines would join Nigerian-led peacekeepers enforcing a fragile ceasefire.
The BBC journalist who reported that Britain exaggerated the case for war in Iraq was set to testify on Tuesday before a judicial inquiry into the apparent suicide of the government scientist allegedly behind the claims.
Reform school as a sentencing option for juveniles is ”all but a dead letter” in South Africa as there is only one reform school to service eight of the nine provinces, the Grahamstown High Court heard on Monday.
Microsoft was ordered to pay -million on Monday after losing a patent-infringement suit that accused the world’s largest software maker of stealing technology used in its Internet Explorer web browser, news reports said.
The $1,09-billion takeover bid of Ashanti Goldfields, Ghana’s premier company, by AngloGold, SA’s largest and the world’s second-largest gold producer, has shown that Africa can transform itself without giving up an inch of its mineral wealth.