FIRDAY, 11.00AM: JOANNE Norton and Cherry Moulder will face each other today in the Bell’s SA Ladies Amateur matchplay golf championship at Killarney Golf Club. Both have been cutting through the opposition in the past few days — Norton beat Colet Viljoen 5/4, while Moulder beat Yvonne Pelser 2/1. In a unexpected twist, current SA […]
modern times Jim Cambray WHEN an Eastern Cape farmer saw some small fish in his streams, he thought they were trout spawning, and called in local scientists to make sure. They discovered the little creature was, in fact, the Cape galaxias, which had never before been recorded in Eastern Cape river systems. Also known as […]
In an unfavourable macro-economic environment, Gear could confound plans to provide the necessary support for agriculture, writes Asghar Adelzadeh of the NIEP in the sixth of a series on economic policy THERE have been several attempts to specify and quantify the contribution of agriculture to South Africa’s broader economy. Most concur that the sector’s direct […]
FRIDAY, 6.00PM The statistics released by the Council of South African Banks today revealed that robbers have gotten away with more than R30-million in 164 bank robberies so far this year, while R105,3 million was robbed in 1996. COSAB head Bob Tucker said police indicated the robberies are the work of syndicates, made up of […]
TEACHERS WALK OUT ALL teacher unions walked out of pay negotiations yesterday, the third such walkout this year, accusing the government of lack of transparency. And protests seem likely to come from nurses as well, offered increases of 7,04%, compared to some 22% offered to other low-paid civil servants. IRAQIS IN SUDAN A UGANDAN newspaper, […]
FRIDAY, 5.00PM: The proposed May 12 strike planned by the Congress of SA Trade Unions was delared unlawful in the Labour Court, in Johannesburg today. Cosatu organised the countrywide protests in reaction to certain clauses of the Conditions of Employment Bill. The National Council of Trade Unions voiced its support of the protest action earlier […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM GOVERNMENT may consider closing its accounts with private-sector banks which show no interest in financing small and medium enterprises, Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told Parliament on Wednesday. We doubt and question the banks’ interest in the transformation and promotion of small and medium-sized businesses. These banks have government accounts from […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: The cash-strapped SA Tennis Association has received good news — they are not hosting the Fed Cup tie between SA and Austria on July 12 and 13. The meet will be held in Austria, and Sata’s only financial requirement will be to get the SA side there. The news comes as a relief […]
THURSDAY, 4.00PM: POLICE this morning used a water cannon to disperse Inkatha Freedom Party supporters resisitng eviction from Penduka section in Thokoza on the East Rand. The houses in Penduka section have been illegally occupied by IFP-supporting families since the early 1990s, when political violenec between supporters of the African National Congress and the IFP […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM TSOGO Sun’s position as preferred finalist for a casino resort in the Mpumalanga capital of Nelspruit was placed in jeopardy yesterday when rivals Karos Hotels and Esikhehleni won a dramatic high court ruling which will likely delay the establishment of a Nelspruit casino complex for several months. Karos and its associate Esikhahleni argued […]