The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) was on Monday arranging a meeting of security guards and employers in the hope of resolving the strike in which another two guards were killed over the weekend. The pay strike began on March 23 in a dispute over the 8% percent offered by employers.
A local Sydney council has decided on a new weapon in its bid to remove groups of youths from gathering in carparks and disrupting residents — the music of 1970s crooner Barry Manilow. Officials said that the youths were not causing property damage but were annoying residents by revving their engines and doing wheelies up and down the carpark.
A Johannesburg metro policeman whose fingertip was bitten off by an alleged drunken driver was discharged from hospital on Monday, police said. ”He is in a stable condition and back at home. He does have a shorter finger now as the tip of the finger was not able to be re-attached,” said metro police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.
Swedish tennis great Bjorn Borg, winner of five consecutive Wimbledon titles, rated himself among the world’s top four players ever. In an exclusive interview with Stockholm daily Expressen, Borg was asked to rate the world’s top five players ever. He came up with four names: Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and himself, adding it was impossible to compare the quartet.
The JSE Limited’s listing attracted plenty of interest on Monday as the exchange now joins an elite club of listed bourses worldwide. Examples of bourses that have listed on their own exchanges include the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, Deutsche Borse, Nasdaq, Euronext and the Australian Stock Exchange.
Nominal house price growth of 12,3% year-on-year was recorded in May 2006 compared with a revised growth rate of 13,2% in April, according to the latest Absa house-price index. In real terms, year-on-year growth of 9,6% was recorded in April compared with a revised growth rate of 10,2% in March.
Former African National Congress Chief Whip Tony Yengeni might not have to report to jail just yet -– despite missing a deadline to seek leave to appeal against his four-year-prison sentence. He could apply for condonation of late filing of his application for leave to appeal, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein said on Monday.
London’s emergency services responded poorly to the July 7 suicide bombings by relying on outdated communications, lacking medical supplies and failing to track thousands of survivors, an official report said on Monday. The London Assembly’s July 7 review committee said that the most striking failure was the lack of planning to care for thousands of survivors.
Alan Garcia first became president of Peru in 1985. Within five years he had steered the South American country in the worst crisis in its history. Then the man known as the ”Kennedy of South America” disappeared into the political sunset, never to return — or so it seemed.
The JSE was weaker at midday on Monday, dragged down by softer world markets. Gold stocks bucked the trend, however, buoyed by a higher bullion price. By 11.56am, the all-share index shed 0,23%, while the all-share industrial index eased 0,13%. The financial and banks indices fell 0,69% and 0,3% respectively.