More and more people will cycle into London this week as the fear of being caught in a terrorist attack on public transport overrides concerns of being knocked off their bike by a car, experts say. Sales of bikes — from fold-away models to multi-gear machines — have rocketed at cycle shops across the capital since last Thursday.
Zimbabwe’s main opposition political party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has been hijacked by corrupt opportunists driven mainly by personal greed, party member and Member of Parliament Roy Bennett says in an article published on Monday.
About 2 300 families in Stilfontein are battling to make ends meet after their breadwinners were retrenched when DRDGold provisionally liquidated its two North West mines in March. Simmer & Jack Mines has signed an interim agreement with the provisional liquidators, under which Simmers will restart the mines.
Dazzlingly white, perfectly aligned … and now with a touch of glamour: New York cosmetic dentists are offering smiles fit for a movie star. Recently, a semi-permanent prothesis — known as ”snap-in veneers” — has become available. Made of resin, the veneers are placed over patients’ teeth, allowing them to flash teeth like those of their favourite actor or actress.
Londoners were gritting their teeth for the return to work on Monday even as police searched crumpled underground train wreckage for clues to track the terror bombers, spurred by fear of a new attack. The police said 49 bodies have been hauled out of the four blast sites, and said they hoped to find no more.
A potential strike action by over 190Â 000 workers in the steel and engineering industry has been averted, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa said on Monday. This comes after workers in the industry overwhelmingly agreed to accept an offer of 6,8% for lowest paid grades and 5,2% for highest paid grades.
The Johannesburg municipality says that essential services won’t be affected by Tuesday’s strike as it is putting contingency plans in place to minimise disruptions. South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) spokesperson Chichi Selepe has warned that essential services will be affected by the protest.
Jamaica and South Africa drew 3-3 on Sunday, joining the United States and Costa Rica in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Gold Cup while Mexico beat Guatemala 4-0 to recover from its upset loss to the Bafana Bafana two days earlier. Honduras also clinched a quarterfinal berth, beating Colombia 2-1 in Miami to hand the South Americans their second loss.
The African National Congress has finally acted against conflict of interest and potential corruption in its ranks by adopting a policy that bars public officials from working for the private sector in an area where they had been active in government. At the national general council in Pretoria, the party adopted a ”cooling-off period” resolution.
It was a new kind of story. Not in the sense of what happened, which was thoroughly and depressingly as anticipated, but in the way it was reported and disseminated. The mobile phone photographers, the text messagers and the bloggers – a new advance guard of amateur reporters had the London bomb story in the can before the news crews got anywhere near the scene.