Vuyo Mvoko PUBLIC service workers took to the streets of Pretoria this week, giving the government a sharp reminder that the potentially explosive wage dispute in the sector is still on the boil. And the dispute is causing mounting embarrassment for Cosatu’s National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), whose continued attempts to reach […]
Even the experts differ on the nuances of cricket, but explaining the game to the uninitiated is a difficult task CRICKET: Jon Swift IT was, in the light of retrospect, a debate that should neither have been contemplated nor entered into in the first place. Attempting to unravel the mysteries of the game of cricket […]
South Africa’s new political parties, some of them wonderfully wacky but always serious, may have lost the elections battle but their spirit has not died, reports Anne Eveleth AN amazing array of new parties entered the April election only weeks before the poll. Most were laughed off as “joke” contenders and few scored high enough […]
Steuart Wright: East London HOMELESSNESS in the East Griqualand town of Matatiele has become a political football in the battle for the territory between kwaZulu/Natal and the Eastern Cape. The chairman of the Matatiele Squatters’ and Workers’ Association, Watson Mokoatle, says there is no political motive behind last weekend’s invasion of municipal land by about […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s original offer to Allan Boesak of the post of ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva was shrewd. The president was taking an unsuccessful politician — who had cost the ANC control of the Western Cape — from the untouchable position of an elected official and making him an employee of the […]
A motorist on the Greek island of Lesvos got a rare glimpse of the positive side of Greek bureaucracy after receiving half a traffic ticket over a parking violation, a report said on Thursday. Motorist Petros Kakasavelis had illegally double-parked his car at a busy spot near the island’s harbour, but was saved by a jurisdiction conflict between the Greek traffic police and the port police.
South Africa’s ruling ANC romped home in a municipal by-election in KwaDukuza/Stanger in KwaZulu-Natal held on Wednesday. It raised its percentage of the vote from just over 60% in the previous election in the ward to over 90%, according to the Independent Electoral Commission.
A bicycle bomb aimed at a vehicle carrying Nato-led peacekeepers exploded on Monday east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, wounding at least seven Afghan civilians, some seriously, police and officials said. The remote-controlled bomb was set on a bicycle left on the side of the main road from Kabul to the eastern city of Jalalabad and detonated at about 9.30am.
Police launched a grenade and fired shots into a crowd celebrating Italy’s victory in the World Cup, killing three people and wounding 17, officials said on Monday. Police were investigating Sunday’s shooting, Colonel Pierre-Claver Gahungu said. ”We will let you know when we have investigation results,” he said.
The European Commission stepped closer to imposing -million a day fines on Microsoft on Monday when it gave the software group eight days to comply with sanctions imposed last year. Neelie Kroes, competition commissioner, said in Madrid: ”The deadline is the end of this month and if it’s not met then it’s the end of the game.”