A recent British Equal Opportunities Commission survey found that four out of five working men would be happy to swap their jobs for the role of main child carer. Fair enough, and clearly a step in the right direction, but — and I hate to break the news, guys — there’s a catch, and it’s halo shaped.
The Pension Funds Adjudicator recently ruled on three types of cases with regards to retirement annuities . The first relates to the value of paid-up policies, which currently involves six separate cases. One that made headlines was the Da Sousa case against Liberty Life’s Lifestyle retirement annuity fund where, after fees, the paid up value fell from R37 983 to R5 439.
Over 600 children were raped in two years by previously convicted rapists, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. ”In 2002, 277 children were raped by persons previously convicted of rape, while in 2003 this figure has increased by 15% to 320, said DA member of Parliament Mike Waters.
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The South African Local Government Association has made a ”certain improvement” to its previous wage offer to striking municipal workers, their union said on Tuesday. The nationwide municipal workers’ strike will continue while the South African Municipal Workers’ Union considers the offer.
The pole-vaulting competition at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki was disrupted on Tuesday when a Finnish vaulter’s crash damaged the measuring equipment. When the event restarted, using a second pit where the equipment was intact, gusty winds hampered the vaulters’ efforts.
Ethiopia’s ruling party has won an absolute majority in Parliament in disputed May elections, according to final results released on Tuesday. When combined with victories by allied parties, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front will control 318 seats in the 547-member Parliament.
Discovery and its crew of seven glided safely back to Earth on Tuesday, ending a riveting and at times agonising 14-day test of space-shuttle safety that was shadowed by the ghosts of Columbia. Discovery swooped through the darkness of the Mojave desert and landed at the Edwards air-force base well before sunrise.
Amid intense diplomacy, Britain, France and Germany circulated a draft resolution on Tuesday, ahead of a key meeting of the United Nations atomic watchdog, urging Iran to stop nuclear fuel work that has raised concerns of a possible weapons programme. But diplomats warned the tactic is running into opposition.
Crude futures edged back on Tuesday after prices had rallied to a new record high at ,27 a barrel. The market was still on watch for potential terrorist threats in Saudi Arabia and spirits remained dampened over refinery outages in the United States. Traders were also awaiting the weekly inventory snapshot from the US.