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/ 14 February 2006
<b>Vicki Robinson</b> reports on a company that has been branded as the country’s flagship of broad-based black economic empowerment.
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/ 13 February 2006
The Gauteng provincial government is to pump R3-billion into upgrading infrastructure in 20 townships in the next three years, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said on Monday. The premier was addressing delegates at the opening of the Gauteng legislature in Johannesburg.
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/ 13 February 2006
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Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe has recused himself from the rape trial of African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma. He told the Johannesburg High Court he is stepping aside, but not for the reasons put forward by Zuma’s defence. Zuma addressed about 3Â 000 supporters outside the court after Ngoepe recused himself.
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/ 13 February 2006
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The controversial song Msholozi — Jacob Zuma’s clan name — kicked off a carnival atmosphere at the former deputy president’s rape trial on Monday. The song, by the group Izinganizoma, called for charges against Zuma to be dropped.
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/ 10 February 2006
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma goes on trial in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday for allegedly raping a family friend. Zuma (63), who has not yet pleaded to the charge, is out on R20Â 000 bail. Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe will preside over the trial.
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/ 9 February 2006
The South African Weather Service has warned of more rain for the flood-hit provinces of Gauteng and Free State. This came as traffic chaos and reports of cars and people being swept away in Gauteng dominated news reports on Thursday. In the Free State, reports indicated that homes had been flooded, and bridges were under water.
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/ 9 February 2006
One of the 11 men accused of hijacking cigarette trucks became ”very religious” after a shooting incident that turned him into a paraplegic, a former member of the hijacking gang told the Cape High Court on Wednesday. Vernon Aspeling, who has turned state witness, gave the court a detailed account of the alleged hijackings.
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/ 8 February 2006
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South Africans have been called on to join a picket in support of axed deputy president Jacob Zuma at the start of his rape trial in Johannesburg on Monday. The Friends of Jacob Zuma Trust said about 5 000 people are expected to attend the picket outside the Johannesburg High Court.
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/ 8 February 2006
Bloemfontein Celtic will be hoping to add to their silverware garnered this season when they line-up for the Chailanse Cup in Katlehong this weekend, hot on the heels of their Free State International Cup victory. Celtic overcame the challenge of AG Faarhus of Denmark 3-1 in the first game in Bloemfontein and then defeated Pirates 2-1 in the final.
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/ 8 February 2006
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was "very welcome" at this weekend’s progressive governance summit, South Africa’s Minister in the Presidency Essop Pahad said on Wednesday. "It is very important for Mr Blair to be here as leader of the British Labour Party … [although] we may disagree with him on some of his policies," said Pahad.
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/ 6 February 2006
Host nation South Africa is to refurbish five existing stadiums and build five new venues for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, in terms of an agreement with international football association Fifa. Five new stadiums will be built, including ones in KwaZulu-Natal’s eThekweni metro and in Cape Town.
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/ 3 February 2006
The United Transport and Allied Trade Union (Utatu) said on Thursday that next week’s planned strike by Transnet workers over the parastatal’s restructuring plans will continue. Utatu spokesperson Chris de Vos said the union was disappointed that a meeting with Transnet management on Thursday yielded no results.
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/ 2 February 2006
South African Airways obtained an interim Labour Court order on Thursday against a sympathy strike by the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union. Spokesperson Jacqui O’ Sullivan said the order would remain in place until final judgement next Tuesday.
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/ 2 February 2006
The housing shortfall in Alexandra, eastern Johannesburg, will be under the spotlight in the Pretoria High Court on March 6 when the Gauteng housing MEC gives evidence. ”I welcome the opportunity to present the department’s side of the story and the type of challenges we are facing in implementing the Alexandra Renewal Project,” said MEC Nomvula Mokonyane.
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/ 2 February 2006
Hundreds of pupils started marching to the Khutsong police station on Thursday afternoon to hand over a memorandum to protest the incorporation of Merafong, in the Carletonville area, into the North West province. It says Parliament must speedily convene to deal with the matter before the end of February.
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/ 2 February 2006
As the strike by Transnet employees in KwaZulu-Natal ended on Wednesday, four trade unions handed over a memorandum to Transnet management. In the memorandum, directed to Transnet CEO Maria Ramos, the unions urged management to respect processes and structures established for the purposes of negotiating.
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/ 2 February 2006
It could take several more weeks to finish the paperwork and legal processes needed to start building the Gautrain, the project’s spokesperson said on Thursday. ”Construction will only begin once we’ve signed the concession agreement, but we don’t want to put a timeline on it,” Barbara Jensen said.
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/ 1 February 2006
A march by thousands of Transnet workers in Durban ended on Wednesday, bringing to a close the first in a threatened series of strikes at the parastatal, a trade-union spokesperson said. A Durban metro police spokesperson said marchers were well behaved.
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/ 1 February 2006
Trade unions on Wednesday said they were ”very satisfied” with their first in a series of strikes against Transnet’s restructuring programme. ”We are very satisfied. On the short notice that we organised it, we never thought it would be this successful,” the United Transport and Allied Trade Union’s Chris de Vos said.
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/ 31 January 2006
Transnet workers in KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State ended their second day of strikes on Tuesday with unions claiming success. ”No matter which way you try and spin it, there’s no doubt the strike has been effective,” the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union’s (Satawu) Randall Howard said.
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/ 31 January 2006
Operations at the majority of state-held Transnet divisions were proceeding normally, company spokesperson John Dludlu said in a statement as the strike in KwaZulu-Natal entered its second day on Tuesday. Barring the Durban Container Terminal, Richards Bay port and Metrorail in "a few areas", operations were running at 100%, he said.
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/ 30 January 2006
All licensed and registered cyclists are welcome to ride in the Nashua Tshwane Capital Classic on Sunday without fear of facing a ban or being fined. This assurance was given on Monday by Hannes le Roux, chairperson of Gauteng North Cycling. Le Roux gave this assurance after a ”misunderstanding” about the event.
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/ 30 January 2006
Laetitia Rispel, former head of the Gauteng health department, has been appointed as the head of the Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) HIV/Aids research programme. She succeeds Olive Shisana, who took over as president and CEO of the HSRC in August 2005.
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/ 30 January 2006
The Durban and Richards Bay ports were running at 60% and 50% capacity respectively on Monday as unions embarked on a strike at Transnet. The United Transport and Allied Trade Union said about 15Â 200 workers from all four unions involved in the dispute over restructuring were on strike at both ports.
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/ 27 January 2006
Gauteng social development minister Bob Mabaso has resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment. He said on Friday that he had informed the premier and speaker of the Gauteng legislature that he was stepping down as a member of the executive council, and as a member of the provincial legislature.
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/ 27 January 2006
South Africa’s retail petrol price for all grades of petrol will rise by 14 cents per litre (c/l) from February 1, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The latest changes bring the retail price of a litre of 93 octane petrol in Gauteng to R5,63 a litre and to R5,40 a litre at the coast.
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/ 26 January 2006
Gauteng police Commissioner Perumal Naidoo has appointed a team of senior officers to investigate allegations of racism in the North Rand dog unit. It was reported on Wednesday that a black member allegedly made a written threat to kill three white policemen and a female administrative officer.
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/ 25 January 2006
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Tension between political parties in certain areas of the country is a concern, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said on Wednesday. Thoko Mpumlwana, deputy chairperson of the IEC, asked parties attending a code-of-conduct signing ceremony in Pretoria to conduct themselves peacefully.
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/ 25 January 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>Inkatha Freedom Party Ingwe municipality mayor Innocent Miya and three councillors from nearby Ubuhlebezwe municipality have defected to Ziba Jiyane’s National Democratic Convention (Nadeco). Miya, according to Nadeco spokesperson Linda Hlongwa MPL, has been mayor of Ingwe since 2000.
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/ 25 January 2006
There was no sign of the missing IT salesperson allegedly at the centre of the African National Congress’s spy and hoax e-mail saga on Wednesday, police said. The search was continuing, ”however, there have been no new developments,” said Director Sally de Beer, spokesperson for National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 24 January 2006
The unemployment rate among black South Africans had dropped over the past four years but blacks still lagged far behind whites in the employment stakes, Stats SA’s labour force survey has found. The unemployment rate for black men had dropped from 31,5% in September 2001 to 26,6% last September, according to the survey, released in Pretoria on Tuesday.
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/ 24 January 2006
Police were on Tuesday continuing a search for the IT executive allegedly at the centre of the African National Congress’s spy and hoax e-mail saga. Durban-based Muziwendoda Kunene has not been seen since his wife dropped him off at a BP garage to board a taxi to Sandton City to attend to his business.