The fact that Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has to resort to appeals to foreign governments not to poach South African health professionals is a ”tragedy”, says the Democratic Alliance.
As the Serbian authorities were announcing yesterday that they had rounded up some 200 people in connection with the assassination of the prime minister, Zoran Djindjic, there was little sign of life at the green-roofed mansion on Silerova Street.
South Africa’s former ruling party, the New National Party, has objected to government’s raising of the earnings threshold set by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act — the point at which employees are excluded from the Act’s provisions regarding overtime payment.
South African Port Operations (SAPO), the government’s new ports operational division created from the restructuring of Portnet, has budgeted in excess of R1 billion for capital spending on upgrades across all of the country’s ports in 2003, according to SAPO General Manager Nad Govender.
Mounting trade union concerns about government food security measures boiled over this week in a broadside against the food price monitoring committee set up by Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Thoko Didiza at the end of last year.
The new head of the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) top negotiating body, the General Council, on Thursday warned that there was little chance of meeting a March 31 deadline on guidelines for crucial agriculture negotiations.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has finally denied that he met Schabir Shaik and French arms dealer Alain Thetard at a Durban hotel in March 2000 — three months after the Mail & Guardian published the fact that the Scorpions were investigating whether Zuma had solicited a bribe at that meeting.
South Africa’s national carrier, South African Airways, is constantly looking at new routes and partners and is extending its wings to cover the African sky, says Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe.
South African domestic workers must be registered for unemployment insurance as from April 1 and BuaNews, the government news agency, has reported that this can now also be done by telephone.
Three men suffocated to death in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa trying to fetch a woman’s mobile phone from a pit toilet, press reports said on Friday.