An agreement reached at the CCMA almost brings the security strike to an end, but white employers fail to come on board.
Holding a rifle in one hand and a cigar in the other, Saddam Hussein fired into the air, a signal to the world that he is back — with a bang.
United States President-elect George W Bush put the finishing touches to his Cabinet this week.
About 12 000 infections have been reported in the province, but, with just 52 deaths, health authorities say their efforts have been successful.
Thirty wild baboons trapped for laboratory experiments have been confiscated by Northern Province conservation officials.
ETHIOPIA says it will not withdraw its army from inside Eritrea until the Asmara government honoured its own redeployment commitments. The Defence Ministry said Ethiopia would consider withdrawing after a United Nations peacekeeping mission had deployed along the border and confirmed the geography of a temporary security zone. Ethiopia’s army holds large chunks of undisputed […]
SOUTH African security guards have ended an often-violent 17-day strike after five mainly black employer organisations reached an agreement with nine unions. A mediator said the agreement provided for reducing the working week to 50 hours, a minimum salary of R1 300 a month, maternity benefits, the establishment of a commission to investigate HIV/Aids in […]
TUNISIA’S communications ministry has cut Internet subscription rates in half, and says privatisation of the telecommunications sector will probably begin this year. Monthly charges for subscribing to the Internet for a family dropped from 21 dinars ($15) to 10 dinars ($7), while professional subcribers saw their fees reduced from about $33 to $14 a month, […]
THE first passenger train in over two years this week travelled along a key railway line in the central African state of Congo. The train on the 512km Congo-Ocean line, linking the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noire to the capital Brazzaville, carried 396 passengers for an overnight run that took 12 hours. Freight services on the […]
THE Zimbabwe government has laid off more than 2_000 civil servants in ongoing moves to streamline the public sector, the state workers union said. Thousands of workers from the education ministry were handed letters of termination when they turned up for work this week, the Government Workers Association (GWA) said. Although civil servants were notified […]