Metrorail chief executive Honey Mateya says the state urban rail transport authority backed concessioning of this sector "four or five years ago" but this had been put on hold by Transnet and the South African government to attend to backlogs.
South African Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya announced on Friday that 3,4-million children were now registered to receive a R160 a month child support grant — for the poorest of the poor.
Rival factions within the Inkatha Freedom Party clashed heatedly over whether the IFP should remain in the national government at the party’s national conference last weekend.
The once powerful African Council of Hawkers and Informal Businesses (Achib), which represents more than 110 000 members, is facing management turmoil and a financial crisis that could lead to its collapse.
Local songbirds and international divas are billed to perform at Nelson Mandela’s 85th birthday bash in Sandton on Saturday.
Former president Nelson Mandela’s 85th birthday brought a golden sunny day to his Houghton, Johannesburg, home on Friday.
An intersection near former president Nelson Mandela’s home in Houghton, Johannesburg, was blocked on Friday — not barricaded by the police or the military, but by students from the University of Pretoria’s radio station, Tuks fm.
As armed attacks on US troops in Iraq increase and the Pentagon announces that the crack troops of its most experienced infantry division will stay in the country ”indefinitely”, the one certainty about the groups carrying out the assaults is the effect they are having: confusion.
South Africa’s Jewish community added its voice to the millions wishing former president Nelson Mandela happy birthday on his 85th on Friday.
More than 5 000 birthday messages including 523 from overseas were conveyed to telephone numbers for former president Nelson Mandela before 7am on Friday, Telkom SA reported.