The outstanding wage demand by the National Union of Mineworkers (Num) will increase the wage bill for South Africa’s major gold miners, AngloGold, Gold Fields and Harmony , the Chamber of Mines (CoM) said in a statement on Friday.
An urgent application by former president FW de Klerk for the Pretoria High Court to set aside a subpoena directing him to testify for the defence in the Boeremag trial is to be heard on Friday.
Mineworkers’ wage demands were unreasonable and impossible for gold mines to meet, the SA Chamber of Mines’ chief negotiator, Frans Barker, said on Thursday.
The Bassline, Johannesburg’s well-loved jazz club, will close its doors at the end of September. Nine years and one month after opening, the venue will bid goodbye to the students, aficionados and big boozers who made its reputation as a late-night haunt for the ultra-discerning.
The Inkatha Freedom Party apparently wants to subject its national council members to a lie detector test to establish whether they have leaked confidential information to the media and other organisations.
Ex-president Nelson Mandela’s body should be embalmed after his death and displayed in a glass cage at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, according to the African National Congress’s deputy leader at the Port Elizabeth metropole, Mike Xego.
Roberto Calvi, ”God’s banker”, the Italian financier whose body was found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London more than 20 years ago, was murdered by the Mafia for mishandling its money, according to prosecutors charged with investigating one of Europe’s most opaque criminal mysteries.
The US national security agency picked up ”communications that indicated possible impending terrorist activity” between September 8 and September 10 2001 but failed to act on them, according to a congressional investigation into the al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington.
I have received the most elegant letter from Dr Vincent Maphai, chairperson of the SABC board of governors. That Dr Maphai didn’t like what I had to say in a recent column in which I likened the SABC to a whore, was plain to see.