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/ 6 February 2007
African economies face a daunting challenge to catch up with the rest of the world after missing out on two decades of growth, a new report by the World Bank said on Tuesday. The author of the study, Benno Ndulu, said Africa has been losing the battle against poverty in comparison to the rest of the world, but expressed hope there is enough ambition to reverse the current situation.
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/ 7 November 2006
South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday that government support of the private sector is important and development of the local bond and corporate bond markets should be encouraged. He also said it is important to improve international ratings to add to foreign-investment confidence in South Africa.
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/ 31 October 2006
The South African National Aids Council is to be restructured to give it more decision-making powers, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The council, chaired by Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, met in Midrand to look at ways to restructure itself. It was agreed that governmental and non-governmental organisations would in future send their heads to meetings.
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/ 21 September 2006
The resolution to keep intact the tripartite alliance — led by the African National Congress — has been passed by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, but not without questions being raised from the floor about whether working-class interests were being fostered.
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/ 21 September 2006
China is not exactly the flavour of the month at the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) national congress, but ironically its textile-exporting muscle is amply demonstrated in the entrance hall of the Gallagher Estate venue. The four-day congress ends on Thursday, and various businesses have informal stands in the entrance hall advertising their services.
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/ 19 September 2006
Congress of South African Trade Unions congress-goers wildly cheered the Treatment Action Campaign’s Zackie Achmat on Tuesday when he called for the removal from office of South African Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. Achmat spoke shortly after Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka.
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/ 19 September 2006
Non-executive directors’ annual pay packages increased on average just over 34% in 2005 to R342 072 from R254 744 in 2004, a study published in the <i>Bargaining Monitor</i> distributed at the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) congress has established.
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/ 19 September 2006
Members of three trade unions surrounded Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) congress delegates with textile lines made up of 40 000 pieces of cloth, representing the number of workers who had lost their jobs in the South African industry in the last two years.
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/ 18 September 2006
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People have short memories and tend to forget that the democratic movement will always produce leaders, African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma told the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ congress in Midrand on Monday. Attracting loud applause, he talked his way through the movement’s history.
Vodacom was up and running again on Friday afternoon after subscribers could not make or receive phone calls earlier. ”After extensive investigation Vodacom has identified that incoming data received on interconnecting links from the Cell C network appears to have disrupted the Vodacom network,” Vodacom said.
Savings of between 13% and 15% on medicines are on the cards if the draft regulations for pharmacies’ dispensing fees announced on Thursday are approved. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang announced the draft dispensing fees, which would be on a sliding scale.
The Pan African Parliament (PAP) recommended on Monday the creation of a bank for storing samples of the continent’s plant resources. This should be done ”with a view to preserving plant species and reconstituting the vegetation cover in the event of major ecological disasters”, says a PAP recommendation.
Any effort to stop Jacob Zuma from becoming president would be like ”trying to fight against the big wave of the tsunami”, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi said on Monday. Speaking at a Cosatu conference in Midrand, Vavi stressed that this was his personal view.
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/ 16 September 2004
Africans look to the Pan African Parliament (PAP) to help them escape from poverty and underdevelopment, South African President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday told the opening of the PAP’s second sitting at Gallagher Estate in Midrand. Earlier,
about 300 protesters arrived to press for democratic reform in Zimbabwe.
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/ 16 September 2004
Hundreds of guests and delegates gathered for the opening of the Pan African Parliament’s (PAP) second sitting at the Gallagher Estate conference centre in Midrand on Thursday morning. Delegates from 46 countries that have ratified the PAP protocol are to take part in deliberations from this Friday until October 7.
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/ 15 September 2004
Tucked away in an industrial area halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, a sprawling modern conference centre named after an Australian-born baker is about to become home for the Pan African Parliament. Gallagher Estate is a complex of modern buildings with posh interiors of winged-back chairs, glass doors, Italian marble and rosewood wall panels displaying naturalist art.
The National Union of Mineworkers should use its structures to help further the government’s poverty reduction goals, African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe said on Thursday at the union’s three-day conference being held in Midrand.
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/ 26 November 2003
White-collar crime costs the South African economy between R50-billion and R150-billion a year. Speaking at a white-collar crime summit in Midrand on Wednesday, Minister of Justice Penuell Maduna said ”82% of businesses are probable victims”.
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/ 18 September 2003
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has again called for free primary and secondary education as well as universally accessible education for early childhood development. ”We think that free quality public education for all is a basic human right,” read a document at Cosatu’s national congress.
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/ 17 September 2003
Affiliates at the Congress of South African Trade Unions congress agreed on Wednesday to withdraw a proposal calling for more labour federation representatives among African National Congress MPs. The proposal stated that 20% of ANC MPs to come directly from the labour federation.
President Thabo Mbeki is to ask the government for money to help women to play their role in the transformation of Africa.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma praised Africa’s biggest university on Tuesday for helping to educate some of the country’s greatest leaders, imprisoned on Robben Island during the anti-apartheid struggle.
An all-Africa editors’ forum is to be established, it was agreed on Sunday. Editors from all over the continent met at a two-day conference in Midrand, an initiative of the SA National Editors’ Forum (Sanef).
President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday he could not express himself as African Union president on the situation in Zimbabwe because the AU had not taken a position on that yet.