AT least 91 people died and 146 were injured when a train struck a landmine east of the Angolan capital Luanda, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Saturday. The train, consisting of four passenger cars, two freight cars and two oil containers, was derailed by the explosion. Some 500 passengers were reported aboard. Angola, […]
Pretoria | Sunday SANCTIONS against Zimbabwe have had little or no effect and are not a viable way to effect change in that country, President Thabo Mbeki’s spokesman said on Saturday. Bheki Khumalo said some countries had followed a policy of “loud diplomacy” — openly criticising the government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe — and […]
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said on Saturday that 400 Angolan refugees had been repatriated from the neighbouring Republic of Congo. ”They arrived on Friday in Cabinda province where they are restarting their lives,” Julie Stewart, an external relations officer with the UNHCR, said from Cabinda. Oil-rich Cabinda is a coastal sliver of […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Sunday COMPANY representatives and striking auto workers met arbitrators on Friday to try to resolve a five-day work stoppage, union officials said. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is demanding a 12 percent salary increase and a two year wage agreement for its 21_000 members at seven assembly […]
MALAWIAN police fired teargas and used batons on Friday to disperse at least 500 teachers protesting against the government’s failure to deliver on a promised pay rise. The protests occurred as foreign ministers from the 14-member Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) met behind closed doors to prepare for an annual heads of state summit scheduled […]
I refer to the deeply disturbing article “ANC ignores labour law” (August 3). The quotation by the African National Congress member of Parliament regarding the operations manager seems to confirm complaints from the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union of an authoritarian management style. This authoritarianism cannot but impact negatively on labour relations and […]
Nature’s laws aren’t written in English NO blows BARRED Sipho Seepe The bureaucratic, educational, criminal and justice systems in South Africa as well as commerce and industry use languages considered foreign by the majority of African people, bearing testimony to the unrelenting marginal status of African languages. The Constitution, recognising the diminished use and status […]
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Impeccable credentials REVIEW Gavin Foster Audi Allroad A6 2,7 T Quattro R392 250 Audi tells us not to use capital letters in the name of their all-wheel drive wagon, but “allroad” looks too silly for words, and anyway, they lost the war, so we’ll do it the English way. From here on, Allroad it is. […]
In your ear Thebe Mabanga Recently Metro fm unveiled a new line-up three weeks after appointing a new station manager, former marketing manager Lesley Ntloko. Both changes were made with good intentions but are flawed. First the line-up. The most exciting part is the arrival of Phat Joe on the midday show (noon-3pm). Phat Joe […]