Lemons are sweet for 74 Mpumalanga farm workers who have secured a 20-year contract to supply a United States soft-drink company with 875 tons of the fruit a year. The deal was struck through Hall & Sons, the biggest citrus producer in the Lowveld, and will earn the group about R1-million a year.
The government is well placed to develop the junior mining sector over the next decade — but is likely to be forced to rethink key aspects of its proposals for empowerment in the mining industry.
The Inkatha Freedom Party is to forward hundreds of amnesty pleas by political criminals in its ranks to President Thabo Mbeki for presidential pardon. Welcoming the move, a Department of Justice representative, Paul Setsetse said he appreciated the IFP’s ”attempts to seek a solution”.
Allegations that sexual harassment and racist slurs created an intolerable work environment will be heard in the Johannesburg High Court on August 2 when former Unisa Professor Margaret Orr launches her action against the university’s chairperson of council, McCaps Motimele.
Britain’s International Development Secretary, Clare Short, has warned the European Union that she is considering seizing back control of the country’s £700-million contribution to Europe’s international aid budget, in protest at the squandering of money on wasteful, politically driven projects.
The bombers of Hamas struck at the heart of student life on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 70 in a lunchtime attack on a crowded university cafeteria. The Mount Scopus campus of Hebrew University had remained a rare preserve of co-existence.
The leaders of Germany and France this week highlighted the gap separating Britain and the United States from some of their closest allies on policy towards Iraq, saying they could not support an attack without a United Nations mandate.
The United States Justice Department has opened an investigation into accounting practices at AOL Time Warner, delivering another blow to the world’s largest media company.
We smile affectionately at the Morris dancers and bow if introduced to the Queen. But it does seem to me that in the matter of ”games”, such as those currently taking place in Manchester, north-west England, we are taking tradition too far to be healthy.
African National Congress MPs this week caved in to executive pressure over a clause in arms control legislation that would have given Parliament pre-emptive oversight of pending arms sales. However, MPs of the ANC remained adamant about other important oversight controls.