COLUMBUS Stainless steel in Middelburg is on Thursday morning meeting the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa on Thursday morning to discuss the continuing strike by 500 Numsa members. The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration is facilitating the meeting, held at its Witbank office. Numsa and Columbus confirmed the meeting is underway. It […]

COLUMBUS Stainless Steel in Middelburg on Thursday said a four-hour meeting on Thursday with strikers from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa ended inconclusively. The company played tough, abandoning a 7,3% pay rise that Numsa rejected on Tuesday, and going down to 7,1%, plus 0,5% based on individual performance. It said three other […]

BARRY STREEK, Johannesburg | Thursday 12.15pm. SOUTH Africa needs more precise legislation to protect consumer privacy, especially in electronic commerce (e-commerce), Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Thursday. Internet users “must have a right of access to whatever information a company may hold on them, and the means to correct or modify [or remove] any […]

DEUTSCHE Bank on Tuesday announced the listing of equity call warrants on De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited — the world’s largest diamond mining and marketing company. The warrant confers on warrant holders the right, but not the obligation, to buy De Beers shares at a price of R200 at any point in time from the […]

DISRUPTIONS in schools, hospitals, police and government departments are expected countrywide on Thursday as three major public service unions start a nationwide strike in support of a wage demands.

THE probe into allegations of corruption, nepotism and racism against Land Bank managing director Helena Dolny has been extended by 10 days, the bank said on Thursday. The firm of attorneys conducting the investigation has completed its study of the documents involved, but needs more time for interviews and to study related written submissions. Once […]

THE injury-recovered Craig Dowd has returned to the All Blacks squad ahead of their home leg Tri-Nations clash with the Springboks in Pretoria on August 7. This will be the Kiwis’ toughest leg of their international rugby season before October’s World Cup, for which they are being tipped as favourites. Dowd was one of four […]

ELEVEN pupils died at Igomtwe Village, Mufindi District, in Tanzania on Wednesday when a pit they were digging collapsed on them. A statement from the Iringa Regional Commissioner, Mr Njelu Kasaka said that the pupils were buried by the sand. Mr Kasaka said the pupils were covered with sand, following the collapse of a hole […]

NIGERIAN former sports and transport minister Anthony Ikazoboh was shot dead in front of his wife by four gunmen in a suspected assassination, a top police spokesman said on Thursday. Lagos State Police Commissioner Sunday Aghedo told reporters the retired air commodore was shot on Tuesday night as he returned to his home in a […]

MINISTER of Transport Dullah Omar has announced that the supply of vehicles to political office bearers is currently under review for several reasons. These include plans to streamline the fleet from 552 down to 200 vehicles, cutting costs from R25,3-million to R10,4-million per annum. Control of vehicles by the government garage has led to fraud […]