Fifty out of 85 construction employers were found to be violating workplace safety regulations during an on-site crackdown by labour inspectors in the Eastern Cape, the Labour Department said on Wednesday. Department spokesperson Zolisa Sigabi said seven construction sites had been shut down and an additional 48 contravention notices were served.
Gold production in South Africa slumped by 7,5% last year, hitting its lowest level since 1922, according to figures released by the Chamber of Mines on Wednesday. Total production in 2006 was put at 275Â 119kg, the lowest level since a strike 84 years ago reduced production to 218Â 031kg, the chamber said in a statement.
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Pakistan and South African players were involved in what is believed to be a fire scare and had to file out of their Hilton hotel in Port of Spain early on Wednesday as they were having breakfast. Irish and Canadian players, however, were not among those who had to leave the premises, having already left for practice.
The building of Cape Town’s 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium is back on track with a R185-million funding guarantee from banking group Investec. The city put the R2,9-billion project on hold last week. Mayor Helen Zille said on Wednesday that Investec had guaranteed the outstanding R185-million as payment on a post-2010 operating lease on the stadium, to be built at Green Point.
Press freedom improved in Mozambique in 2006 as compared with previous years, a new human rights report has found, Vista News said on Wednesday. The report, released on Wednesday in Maputo, said that while media institutions reported that freedom of speech and the press had improved, police continued to harass journalists in 2006.
To celebrate the third birthday of Team Shosholoza, the South African entry in the America’s Cup yachting event, Archbishop Desmond Tutu announced on Wednesday he would be joining the team in the Spanish port city of Valencia in June.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has challenged the Department of Corrections to truly fulfil its mandate of openness and transparency by revealing former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni’s parole conditions. The DA has officially requested Yengeni’s parole conditions from the department, DA spokesperson James Selfe said on Wednesday.
Crime is an ”illness” that affects all and makes the population live in fear, businessman and former premier of Mpumalanga Mathews Phosa said on Wednesday. He was speaking at a symposium at the University of the Free State on the effect of serious crime and violent crime in South Africa.
South Africa’s Anton Haig says winning the Johnnie Walker Classic last weekend has been a life-changing experience and he is now ready to step up and take his place among the elite. The top names of the game have been lining up to rave about the 20-year-old and he said he wants to make it back-to-back victories at the Singapore Masters this week.
Hundreds of striking Autopax bus drivers delivered a memorandum of their demands to the company’s management on Wednesday afternoon. The group, mainly members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu), was gathered at Beyers Naude Square in central Johannesburg.