Every major enterprise in South Africa would learn in the next few years that it had not invested enough for the growth the country, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin warned on Friday evening. ”The public-sector investment alone in the next five years is R420-billion. This has never ever been attempted in South Africa before,” he said.
Moammar Gadaffi has complained that Western countries have failed to properly compensate Libya for scrapping its nuclear arms programme and as a result countries like Iran and North Korea would not follow his lead. Libya agreed in 2003 to abandon its nuclear arms programme and allow access to international weapons inspectors.
South Africa will use its presidency of the United Nations Security Council in March to push for the organisation to pay for African Union peacekeeping operations. The Security Council has agreed on a so-called hybrid force in Sudan which will comprise African Union peacekeepers supported technically and financially by the UN.
A woman accused of running a prostitution ring threatened to immerse Washington in a sex scandal on Friday by saying she was considering selling 13 years of phone records to raise funds for her legal defence. Lawyers claimed that the records would lead to a client list of 10 000, including some of Washington’s most influential figures.
Carbon dioxide emissions from shipping are double those of aviation and increasing at an alarming rate which will have a serious impact on global warming. Studies suggest that maritime carbon dioxide emissions are not only higher than previously thought, but could rise by as much as 75% in the next 15 to 20 years.
When Ahmad Khidr’s wife, Nadia, was close to her pregnancy’s full term, the Shia grocer drove her to a friend’s house each evening before the curfew began. "We were terrified she would go into labour during the night," said Ahmad (23). "I did not want to risk taking her to a hospital at night."
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has amended its laws so that match referees, rather than umpires, will decide whether games should be terminated if a team refuses to play. The amendment to the law follows last year’s row at the Oval when Pakistan lost to England by forfeit.
Honourable representatives, esteemed ambassadors, ladies and gentlemen of the press, and our young visitors from Mammy Jubilation’s Old Timey Kindergarten up yonder in the cheap seats; welcome to this session of the United Nations General Assembly, my first as Secretary General.
Fidentia’s collapse had further repercussions in the Cape High Court on Friday when two closely linked companies were also placed under curatorship. The court granted a provisional order placing Ovation Global Investment Services and Ovation Global Investment Nominees under curatorship.
A group of men armed with rifles and pistols robbed a Coin security van collecting money at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) head offices in Auckland Park on Friday, Johannesburg police said. Police spokesperson Captain Bheki Mavundla said a white Ford Bantam bakkie was seen pulling up behind the security van at 11.15am inside the public broadcaster’s complex.