Officially, the United Nations conference is being called Beijing and Beyond. But a worldwide NGO review entitled <i>Beijing Betrayed</i> concludes that "governments have failed to turn the platform into action". The report says that despite well-meaning statements, "many women in all regions are actually worse off than they were 10 years ago".
Transnet subsidiary Petronet is to spend at least R3-billion on a new pipeline to move petrol, diesel and jet fuel from Durban to Gauteng, in a move that is expected to shake up a fuel market still shaped by apartheid-era logistical constraints. Gas and liquid fuels transport capacity is among the most contested issues in the local industry.
A labour lover of note, the Oom was, however, duty-bound to point out this example of union double-speak to his followers. On Tuesday South African Transport and Allied Workers Union members caused mayhem on the streets of Jozi when they started stoning truckers who hadn’t heeded their call to down gear. The police got the moer in and beat them up, apartheid-style.
Judging a journalism competition means you get to peruse a pile of poor-quality products, but also that you are sometimes rewarded with exhilarating examples of quality work. In the intricate field of information and communication technology (ICT) coverage, your chances of encountering the good stuff are even more challenged.
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Could husband-hunting be a deadly business for South Africa’s young women? Jeremy Magruder, a young American economist at the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Social Science Research, thinks so. Frisky, risky chancers may be transmitting the incurable virus among themselves but Magruder suspects that dating, with a view to marriage, is pushing the infection.
Prosecutor-turned-businessman Bulelani Ngcuka is to chair the new-look board of Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront Holdings Company. Derick van der Merwe, MD of subsidary Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, said the holdings board has been reshaped to reflect changes to the Transnet board last year.
Nobody in Zimbabwe is likely to act in a way that will prevent free and fair elections being held in that country on March 31, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. He was peaking at Tuynhuys after talks with outgoing Namibian President San Nujoma.
The Zimbabwe High Court has given former information minister Jonathan Moyo a 12-day reprieve to vacate a government house following his dismissal last month, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Moyo was about to be thrown out of the government house in the plush Harare suburb of Gunhill on Sunday.
American adventurer Steve Fossett was flying over southern China on Wednesday, having passed the halfway point in his attempt to make the first solo, non-stop flight around the world without refuelling and almost no sleep. Should everything continue to go as planned, Fossett is expected to return to Kansas on Thursday after spending 60 to 80 hours in the air.