Eight contestants slug it out in the game of <i>Survivor</i> to make the island of democracy just a little bit bigger, writes Mike van Graan.
The fight is not over in the Metrorail workers’ dispute, the United Transport and Allied Trade Union (Utatu) said on Friday. ”We did not suspend the strike notice or sign an agreement,” said Chris de Vos, Utatu general secretary. ”We are still going to try to get the CCMA [Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration] involved … and continue the battle,” he said.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions’s (Cosatu) decision to throw its weight behind Deputy President Jacob Zuma followed a secret meeting at the weekend between Zuma, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and South African Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande.
After a series of wage negotiations between the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and the Steel Engineering Industry Federation of South Africa (Seifsa), there seems to be no end in sight to the wage impasse. This week’s wage talks between the two parties failed yet again to yield positive results.
Telkom announced on Thursday that its group executive for regulatory affairs and public policy, Nkenke Kekana, will leave the listed telecommunications group at the end of June to pursue other career opportunities. Kekana was the chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on communications.
South Africa’s top teams face a hectic soccer schedule that will see at least two-thirds of the domestic league fixtures and four knockout competitions (the Vodacom Challenge, Telkom Charity Cup, SAA Super 8 and Coca-Cola Cup) completed before the Christmas break.
One of the United States’s top customs investigators was on Thursday forced to defend his agency after a man carrying weapons including a bloodstained chainsaw, a home-made sword and a knife was allowed to cross the border freely from Canada to the US.
South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle hero Nelson Mandela will be joined by pop superstars Peter Gabriel and Annie Lennox at charity concert.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has been battling for his political life for years, and his supporters believe he still has numerous ways to to take the fight to President Thabo Mbeki, writes <b>Sam Sole</b>. "Schabir Shaik is only the instrument of the attack on Zuma," a close associate of Zuma says.
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday defended the razing of townships and the arrest of thousands of street traders, which has left at least 200 000 people homeless, as a ”vigorous clean-up campaign to restore sanity” to Zimbabwe’s cities.