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/ 24 November 2005
Johnnic Communications (Johncom) announced on Thursday that its interim headline earnings per share increased 156% to 179 cents for the six-month period ended September 30. The media and entertainment group said its profits increased by 24% to R160-million, while revenue jumped 14% to R2,2-billion.
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/ 23 November 2005
A campaign to stop controversial German vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath from conducting ”illegal” HIV trials in South Africa will be stepped up, three organisations said on Wednesday. ”He has got to be stopped,” Congress of South African Trade Unions president Willie Madisha said.
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/ 23 November 2005
Eight of South Africa’s nine provinces are being been severely affected by drought, the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Wednesday. Hardest hit are northern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, said the department’s senior manager of drought and risk management, Ikalafeng Kgakgatsi.
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/ 22 November 2005
A handful of residents of Kleinskool in Port Elizabeth were still burning tyres in the streets by 9am on Tuesday morning, in protest over alleged poor service delivery, Eastern Cape police said. Inspector Johan van Greunen said 10 people from the area set the tyres alight early in the morning.
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/ 18 November 2005
A thousand Khutsong residents protested outside the office of Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa on Friday against plans to incorporate the Merafong municipal into the North West province from Gauteng. Stressing their dissatisfaction over the proposed re-demarcation, the group handed a memorandum over to officials.
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/ 14 November 2005
Twenty-five people, mainly children, were taken to hospital after eating food believed to be dog meat in an Eastern Cape village on Monday, the provincial health department said. Departmental spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said the parents of a 17-year-old boy had told him to kill a dog that was attacking and killing their sheep.
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/ 14 November 2005
”Massive” educational deprivation continues to plague sub-Saharan Africa, South African Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Monday. ”It is clear that an extraordinary effort will be required to ensure that all countries are directly assisted to succeed,” she told the 15th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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/ 14 November 2005
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”What rape?” asked the headline of the Sowetan on Monday, in a report on allegations that former deputy president Jacob Zuma sexually assaulted a family friend staying over at his house. ”What can be inferred from all this is that it points to a witch-hunt,” Zuma’s lawyer, Michael Hulley, told the Herald.
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/ 8 November 2005
South Africans should use water sparingly due to the drought in many parts of the country, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Buyelwa Sonjica said on Tuesday. Indications from the South African Weather Service are that prospects for above-normal rainfall this season are not good.
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/ 8 November 2005
About 60 people were left homeless on Monday after heavy rains flooded their homes in Dunken village in East London, Eastern Cape disaster-management officials said. ”What made it worse was that there was a blocked pipe near the homes,” said disaster management’s Owen Becker.
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/ 7 November 2005
An Eastern Cape-based research body has called on Parliament to occupy the five seats currently allocated to the government in South Africa’s African peer-review mechanism (APRM) governing council. The APRM governing council for South Africa is made up of 15 members — 10 from civil society and five from the executive arm of the government.
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/ 4 November 2005
Johannesburg and Pretoria recorded the highest temperatures for November in 40 years on Thursday, the South African Weather Service said on Friday. Forecaster Lee-Ann Clark said Pretoria sweated in a sweltering temperature of 39 degrees Celsius on Thursday, while Johannesburg recorded 34.
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/ 4 November 2005
The tug-of-war over the fifth Super 14 rugby franchise will be among the issues tabled at a pending judicial inquiry into allegations of corporate mismanagement within the South African Rugby Union (Saru), the Dispatch reported on Friday. The franchise went to the South-Eastern Cape.
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/ 3 November 2005
Although fires raging through South Africa are being brought under control, the Working on Fire programme warned on Thursday morning that fire danger has increased in three provinces. It said that in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng the ”high orange” on the fire-danger rating index has risen to red.
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/ 3 November 2005
The Humansdorp fire department was still frantically answering telephone calls on Wednesday evening as blazes ran rampant through the southern part of the Eastern Cape. A spokesperson said the N2 highway, which was closed to traffic earlier on Wednesday and had vehicles backed up for kilometres, had been reopened.
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/ 2 November 2005
Large parts of the Eastern Cape are being evacuated in the path of runaway fires, the Working on Fire programme said on Wednesday morning. ”A fire is burning along the N2 highway towards Port Elizabeth near the Van Stadens River bridge,” spokesperson Evelyn Holtzhausen said. ”The fire is out of control.”
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/ 2 November 2005
A number of fires in the Humansdorp area of the Eastern Cape were extinguished by 8.15pm on Tuesday, fire-department official Andrew Pietersen said. ”The Jeffrey’s Bay fire and the St Francis fire have been extinguished,” he said. Earlier, he said fires were ”jumping from one place to another”.
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/ 1 November 2005
A fire in the Humansdorp area of the Eastern Cape and three fires in the Tsitsikamma area were out of control on Monday night, Working on Fire (WOF) said. ”They are burning commercial timber and indigenous veld,” WOF spokesperson Val Charlton said at 7.30pm. Gale-force winds expected on Tuesday would fan the flames.
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/ 30 October 2005
The government is holding back on announcing a date for the local government elections because of the current disruptions in the African National Congress, the United Democratic Movement said on Saturday. This is the result of the axing of Jacob Zuma and the struggle over who will succeed the president, UDM leader Bantu Holomisa said.
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/ 24 October 2005
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”There is little doubt that if Jacob Zuma had been a candidate for the presidency of the ruling African National Congress at the party’s national general council in July, he would have won an overwhelming number of votes … It was clearly demonstrated that Zuma had the support of the people,” writes Donwald Pressley.
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/ 24 October 2005
A 17m-long sperm whale that beached off Ngqura harbour in Algoa Bay, Eastern Cape, at the weekend, has died, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Monday. Earlier on Monday, Ian Gray, the NSRI’s spokesperson in Port Elizabeth, said the whale was expected to die ”within the next two hours”.
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/ 23 October 2005
The Thabo Mbeki-Jacob Zuma ”fight” was affecting government’s performance at every level, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon said on Saturday. ”And the DA, as the official opposition leader, cannot remain neutral and detached. But which side, if any, should we support in the ANC’s internal battle?”
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/ 22 October 2005
The familiar spectre of batting collapses continued to haunt the Warriors as they tottered to 38 for four at the close of the second day of their Supersport Series cricket match against the Cape Cobras at St George’s Park on Friday. The slump in the day’s final 20 overs by the Eastern Cape side threatened to undermine a fine bowling performance which saw them restrict the visitors to 211 for nine declared.
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/ 19 October 2005
The Coega Development Corporation has secured its second investment — a R1,6-billion stainless steel precision mill that is part of the offset from the multibillion-rand arms deal, The Herald website reported on Wednesday. The project still needed the approval of its 26% partner, the Industrial Development Corporation, ”but no obstacles are expected”.
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/ 14 October 2005
South Africa’s National Industrial Participation (NIP) programme has generated investment and sales credits valued at $3,5-billion during the past eight years, says the Department of Trade and Industry. This translates into about R23-billion at the current exchange rate.
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/ 14 October 2005
Mike van Graan asks if we can move on to real transformation, now that we have generally replaced white people with black people at the trough of public funds.
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/ 14 October 2005
The most pointlessly complex Currie Cup system of all time has finally produced exactly the same semifinal match-ups as last year. The main difference is that a year ago, when eight teams contested the Currie Cup, it was a reversion to strength against strength and, what with the Springboks winning the Tri-Nations and all, it was considered something of a vintage season.
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/ 10 October 2005
Workers marching for an end to unemployment and job losses warned the ruling African National Congress on Monday to ignore them at its peril. ”We cannot simply be election fodder,” Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha told protesters who converged at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
Minister of Education Naledi Pandor expressed horror on Thursday at the disruption of the matric-exam process in the Eastern Cape by teachers involved in a labour dispute. ”We must not allow the Eastern Cape to get the lowest pass rates again,” she reacted to reports that teachers have been prevented from submitting pupils’ year marks.
Ntsundukazi Mvandaba and her family were the envy of the neighbours they left behind when they moved from the Mandela informal settlement to proper houses in Delpark, both in Delmas. They moved five years ago into an Reconstruction and Development Programme house: unplastered and small, but the first real home for this family from the Eastern Cape.
Recently the Pension Funds Adjudicator (PFA), Vuyani Ngalwana issued rulings on a further 22 retirement annuities (RAs). Life companies have chosen to settle 15 of these rather than face the negative publicity. This brings to 54 the total number of RA rulings since March. The life companies are appealing seven of these in the High Court.
There is a steady increase in HIV prevalence in South Africa, a professor from the University of KwaZulu-Natal said at the opening of the Gauteng Aids Council conference in Johannesburg on Thursday. The life expectancy in the country would soon plummet from 63 years to 46, Professor Alan Whiteside said.