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/ 13 February 2006
The Constitutional Court will decide on Tuesday whether it can be directly accessed by the Matatiele municipality and others over a demarcation dispute. The municipality wants the court to rule on the constitutionality of the Twelfth Constitutional Amendment and the Cross-Boundary Municipalities Laws Repeal and Related Matters Act.
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/ 12 February 2006
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South Africa’s former deputy president Jacob Zuma was steadily working his way to the highest office when his career crashed under corruption and rape charges. Zuma, who goes on trial on Monday for the rape of a 31-year-old woman, rose from poverty and moved rapidly through the ranks of Africa’s oldest liberation movement, the governing African National Congress (ANC).
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/ 10 February 2006
While negotiations are under way to resolve the impasse at state-held Transnet over its restructuring, three unions will on February 15 march on Parliament to submit a memorandum to Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin and Maria Ramos, CEO of the state-owned entity.
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/ 10 February 2006
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Complaints by Ukhozi FM listeners had led to the withdrawal from its playlist of a song expressing support for former deputy president Jacob Zuma, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) said on Thursday. ”Zuma is facing serious charges of corruption and rape. Nobody is entitled to state an unqualified fact that he is guilty or innocent,” said SABC chief executive Dali Mpofu.
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/ 9 February 2006
Five KwaZulu-Natal municipal managers have been asked to repay more than R7-million embezzled during their terms of office. Local government department head Zandile Nyandu said on Thursday they would have to recover the money or face court applications for recovery.
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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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/ 7 February 2006
South African farmers called for compromise on Tuesday after the lands commissioner said that large-scale expropriation of farms would start next month. ”It is in everyone’s interest that land claims be completed as soon as possible but it needs to take place in a fair manner,” said Annelize Crosby, land affairs adviser at Agri South Africa.
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/ 7 February 2006
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African Communist Party in KwaZulu-Natal have warned of mass action against the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in the next two weeks over its coverage of axed former deputy president Jacob Zuma, who goes on trial for rape on February 13.
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/ 6 February 2006
Team South Africa travel to Jakarta, Indonesia, this weekend for the eighth round of the A1 Grand Prix of Nations in an upbeat mood. Official practice at the Sentul circuit is on Friday, qualifying on Saturday and racing on Sunday. The team are feeling confident and will be aiming for another good result.
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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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/ 6 February 2006
Student registration came to a halt on Monday when students’ and workers’ unions protested at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a union official said. The South African Students’ Congress joined forces with the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union to present a list of demands to the university management.
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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
South African Rugby Union (Saru) vice-president Mike Stofile has vowed to resign if beleaguered president Brian van Rooyen is re-elected on February 24 at the organisation’s annual general meeting. ”If he [Van Rooyen] is re-elected, I will resign immediately. I can no longer work with that man,” said Stofile on Wednesday.
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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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/ 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
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The Inkatha Freedom Party should desist from politicising criminal incidents in KwaZulu-Natal to enhance its campaigning for the local government elections, the African National Congress said on Wednesday. However, the IFP denied the allegation, saying the ANC should have its facts right before releasing statements.
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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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/ 31 January 2006
The KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins are desperate after three successive Standard Bank Pro20 defeats and now need at least two wins out of three in their remaining round-robin fixtures in the competition. Two of the matches are at home this week. On Wednesday night, they line-up against the Warriors in a postponed fixture at Kingsmead.
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/ 31 January 2006
A strike by several thousand Transnet workers continued on Tuesday to protest restructuring plans at the parastatal, a union spokesperson said. ”We are definitely continuing in KwaZulu-Natal. In the Free State, the strike was scheduled only for one day, but some will continue today,” the United Transport and Allied Trade Union said.
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/ 30 January 2006
The South African Communist Party has come out against a South African National Civic Organisation proposal for a presidential third term, saying the country is not short of progressive leadership. The SACP said it will never support a change of the two-term presidency.
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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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/ 30 January 2006
Unions whose members started striking at Transnet on Monday over restructuring at the parastatal said the process had to be conducted with the proper participation of unions. ”There’s been a credibility problem with management, they’ve conducted themselves in an arrogant, imposing and unilateral manner,” said SA Transport and Allied Workers Union spokesperson Randall Howard.
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/ 26 January 2006
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South Africa’s municipal election on March 1 will be a test of whether the African National Congress (ANC) will be able to retain municipalities which ”turned” to it during two floor-crossing periods since the last national municipal election in December 2000.
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/ 26 January 2006
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Putting a former Travelgate MP on the ANC’s proportional representation list for the Ugu District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal shows the party is corrupt, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. Ruth Ntshulana-Bhengu resigned from Parliament following her conviction in the Travelgate scandal.
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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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/ 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
KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni’s son Monde died in a car crash near the Port Shepstone toll plaza on Tuesday, her office said. Monde Nkonyeni (16) was travelling to school with his siblings Steve and Sithabile when their car collided with a van.
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/ 24 January 2006
As the final preparations for the first of three A1 grand prix races were under way in South Africa on Tuesday, managers of host city Durban announced they have their sights set on building a reputation as a global motorsport centre. The A1 grand prix, a growing force on the world racing calendar, takes place on Sunday.
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/ 24 January 2006
Voluntary counselling and testing services are meant to help HIV-positive people cope with the disease, but some counsellors are doing more harm than good, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal. NGOs and Aids activists in the province say many HIV-positive patients could live longer lives if provided with better information about the virus and their treatment options.