An Egyptian team is traveling to New York to participate in the latest phase of the probe into the causes of crash last October of an EgyptAir Boeing 767, an official of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority said. All 217 people on board the aircraft were killed. The team, made up of ECAA officials, will […]
ST HELENA Bay could soon have a sponge cloth production plant as part of a project worth R100m. Norwegian company Kongsfoss Norge, is planning to move its sponge-cloth production plant from Norway to the South African west coast town, creating between 70 and 80 job opportunities. St Helena Bay was chosen as the best spot […]
A SOUTH African firm said it aimed to set up a new completely electronic national stock market before 2001 to rival the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). The new exchange which is to offer trading, clearing and settlement services to the securities industry, will apply to the Financial Services Board for an operating license in September […]
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston are getting married in Malibu, California, this weekend. About 200 guests have been invited to the ceremony, which will take place in a mansion overlooking the sea.
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Ntuthuko Maphumulo Residents near Johannesburg’s Zoo Lake have teamed up with the city council to try to restore the treasured green belt to its former glory – complete with a multicoloured lighting display at the fountain in the lake. They have formed a committee to raise funds to restore Zoo Lake, which has suffered in […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The Pietermaritzburg Regional Court this week dismissed a high-profile rape case against Johannesburg tycoon Jonty Sandler, who had been accused of assaulting a security guard at gunpoint in a Drakensberg hotel. Magistrate Fred de Beer threw out the case on the grounds that the evidence presented against Sandler in court this […]
South Africa has the most skewed distribution of income in the world after Brazil Glenda Daniels Wage gaps in South Africa are excessive, the second largest in the world after Brazil, recent research shows. A report by the National Labour and Economic Development Institute (Naledi) shows that wage policy is one of the most contested […]
Glenda Daniels A Thokoza domestic worker who filed a sexual harassment complaint with the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) is being sued in turn – for defamation – by her former employer. The domestic worker has received a lawyer’s letter from her former employer, a doctor, claiming R100 000 plus costs because she […]