Eskom is to begin with ”pre-emptive load-shedding” on March 31, chief executive Jacob Maroga said on Friday. These deliberate power failures would last no more than two hours and would take place between 6am and 10pm. ”The system remains tight,” he told reporters in Midrand.
Allegations of disorder on the main campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) contained in an anonymous email circulated country were untrue, Rector Frederick Fourie said on Thursday. The email apparently makes reference to incidents of intimidation by black students on the main campus in Bloemfontein on March 4.
Barack Obama faced potential damage to his campaign on Thursday after television networks aired footage of sermons by the former pastor of Obama’s church likening the Democratic frontrunner to Jesus and declaring: ”God damn America.”
The sex worker at the centre of the scandal that brought down the governor of New York state, Eliot Spitzer, has become the most sought after person in the United States, with camera crews camped outside her Manhattan apartment and her MySpace page inundated with traffic.
Democracy has always, in its broadest definition, been based on the rule of law. Currently, this premise reels under the pressure of recent events in the South African judiciary. A judiciary immune to political interference is crucial to a democracy, writes Ilse Ferreira.
The numbers ceased to mean much to Sarah Chekani about the time inflation in Zimbabwe surged past 50Â 000% late last year. It has doubled again since then, but that hardly matters to Chekani and others like her who survive in an orbit touched only fleetingly by cash or the spiralling exchange rate.
The Corporate Laws Amendment Act, which became law at the end of last year, has introduced a number of changes to company legislation. The Act has introduced the concept of a "widely held" company and described certain compliance requirements which must be met.
Many tax practitioners and their clients will find themselves on the wrong side of the Receiver of Revenue as the final date to submit tax returns passed on Friday. Tax practitioners have faced big delays because of major technical glitches with the e-filing system, while individuals are being asked taxing questions.
South Africa’s 2006 total mineral sales of R195,6-billion represented a more than 34% increase over the previous year’s figure of R145-billion and illustrates the industry’s more effective exploitation of the global commodities boom, heard the Chamber of Mines of South Africa’s annual general meeting in November last year.
Mining has been the mainstay of African economic development from an agrarian to an industry-based continent. Rod Pickering, president of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, said in his New Year’s message: "The end of 2007 marks the close of one of the most exciting years in the history of the mining industry."