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/ 18 October 2005
Listed food retailer Pick ‘n Pay has reported a 16,7% rise in its headline earnings per share for the six months to the end of August 2005 to 55,31 cents from 47,41 cents a year earlier. The company declared an interim dividend up 17,7% to 23,3 cents per share, compared with the 19,8 cents declared at the interim stage in 2005.
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/ 17 October 2005
One of 11 accused in a case possibly linked to the kidnapping of a young boy in Ennerdale, Johannesburg, was allegedly subjected to ”shock treatment” in prison near Cape Town at the weekend. Defence counsel Leigh Thompson, for accused Vernon Noel Victor, told the Cape High Court Victor needed urgent medical attention.
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/ 17 October 2005
There were conflicting reports of the success of a Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) call for a worker stayaway in Mpumalanga, the Free State and Northern Cape on Monday. Cosatu said the protest was a ”magnificent” success, while the South African Chamber of Business said its impact on businesses was hardly felt.
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/ 17 October 2005
Trade union Solidarity on Monday welcomed recommendations by the Department of Minerals and Energy that fines be levied against DRDGold following a fatal earth tremor earlier this year. ”In addition, the responsible rock engineer, production manager, mine supervisor and shift boss must face prosecution,” the union said.
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/ 17 October 2005
Tickets for Saturday’s Currie Cup final between the Blue Bulls and Cheetahs at the 50 000-seater Loftus Versfeld Stadium sold out in less than six hours on Monday. The frenzy for tickets saw people camp overnight outside the stadium to ensure they were not disappointed.
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/ 17 October 2005
A rise in interest costs could cause increasing household debt to threaten the stability of South Africa’s financial system, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) said on Monday. Household debt has been trending upward since the beginning of 2003, according to the central bank’s latest financial stability review.
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/ 17 October 2005
Three men appeared in the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court on Monday charged with the kidnapping of 10-year-old Liam Aspeling last week, Gauteng police said. The boy was snatched from the front of his mother’s home in Ennerdale on Tuesday. He was reunited with his family on Wednesday.
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/ 17 October 2005
About 400 people gathered outside the Gauteng legislature on Monday where they formed a human chain around the building to mark International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Representing a variety of NGOs, the demonstrators called for a basic income grant for all.
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/ 17 October 2005
More than 50% of urban South Africans have never gone a day without having anything to eat, research released on Sunday has found. Markinor, an associate of Gallop International, which carried out the study, said 73% of urban South Africans who participated in the survey had rarely or never experienced hunger.
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/ 17 October 2005
The five Sedibeng district municipality residents who were earlier reported to have typhoid are not critically ill, the council’s executive mayor Mlungisi Hlongwane said on Sunday after a meeting with President Thabo Mbeki, who visited the area on Sunday and spoke to officials about problems such as corruption and housing.
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/ 17 October 2005
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will host Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams for discussions in Pretoria on Tuesday, her department said on Monday. Sinn Fein is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. Adams will pay a special visit to South Africa from Tuesday to Friday.
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/ 17 October 2005
Supersport United beat Golden Arrows 1-0 in a Premier Soccer League (PSL) match played at Super Stadium in Pretoria on Sunday afternoon. In other matches, Silver Stars beat a 10-man Black Leopards, and Sundowns hammered Tembisa Classic 3-0 in a pulsating PSL encounter played at the Harry Gwala Stadium.
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/ 17 October 2005
It’s hardly a phenomenon these days for a soccer team to proclaim they were robbed. But after an intense, emotionally charged 1-1 Premier Soccer League derby draw between old rivals Moroka Swallows and Kaizer Chiefs at Johannesburg Stadium on Sunday afternoon, both sides were echoing this sentiment.
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/ 17 October 2005
The Department of Minerals and Energy has no intention of scrapping the proposed duty on the export of rough diamonds, Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks told parliamentarians on Monday. The minister noted that this has been "a contentious issue of serious debate".
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/ 17 October 2005
Beleaguered Cape Judge President John Hlophe was on Sunday given an opportunity to put his side of the racism row to his peers in the judiciary. And though he left the meeting of the country’s heads of courts immediately afterwards, thumping the door shut behind him, Chief Justice Pius Langa denied that he had stormed out.
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/ 16 October 2005
Chief Justice Pius Langa and the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) say there is no substance to a rumour that a race row involving Cape Judge President John Hlophe has been referred to the SAHRC, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Saturday.
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/ 16 October 2005
Free State played a masterful tactical game to beat Western Province (WP) 16-11 at Newlands on Saturday and advance to their second consecutive Currie Cup final. It was the second year running that they made beat WP in a Cape Town semifinal and the match followed much the same pattern as last year’s.
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/ 16 October 2005
The Blue Bulls reached a fourth consecutive Currie Cup final with a hard-fought, come-from-behind 31-23 semifinal victory over the Lions at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday evening. The Lions led 17-16 at the break, but should have been further ahead after outplaying the defending champions in most facets in the first 40 minutes.
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/ 16 October 2005
There is a move away from not interfering in the internal affairs of another country, with the media playing an important role in fostering understanding between countries, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday at the launch of the African Editors’ Forum in Kempton Park.
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/ 16 October 2005
A group of senior media executives launched the African Editors’ Forum in Kempton Park on Saturday night. According to its constitution, it was formed by Africa’s ”most senior print, magazine, broadcast and other electronic media editors and media educators” to defend and promote media freedom and independence.
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/ 16 October 2005
Shouting and swearing at the Zimbabwean government will not help resolve problems there, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday. South Africa’s approach — and that of the region — is to work together to find solutions to problems, he said at the launch of the African Editors’ Forum in Kempton Park, Gauteng.
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/ 15 October 2005
Pumas fullback Casper Steyn completed a perfect kicking display to spur his team to a 25-16 victory over the Falcons in the final of the Currie Cup first division at the Bosman Stadium in Brakpan on Friday night. The Falcons led 13-9 at the interval. Steyn contributed 20 points via five penalties, a conversion and a drop-goal.
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/ 15 October 2005
In-form Orlando Pirates players Joseph Makhanya and Phumudzo Manenzhe will walk a disciplinary plank and miss Saturday’s key Premier Soccer League game against Ajax Cape Town after accumulating three yellow cards. Makhanya, in particular, has been in scintillating form and his suspension comes at an untimely moment.
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/ 15 October 2005
New Zealand won the first Standard Bank one-day international against South Africa A at Willowmoore Park on Friday, after rain and lightning stopped play after 43 overs. When the match was called off, South Africa A, chasing 273 for victory, had 199 for four. New Zealand won the match by 19 runs according to the Duckworth-Lewis formula.
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/ 15 October 2005
Ten historic buildings in central Johannesburg, some of which were built in the art deco style of the 1930s and 1940s, are to be demolished. The South African Heritage Resource Agency said the advantage of a development to house provincial government offices in one area weighed more than keeping the buildings.
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/ 15 October 2005
Four new marine protected areas (MPAs) are to be proclaimed along the Cape coastline, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced on Friday. The new areas will bring South Africa’s total number of MPAs to 27, covering almost one-fifth of its coastal waters up to one nautical mile off-shore.
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/ 15 October 2005
The Zululand Rhino Reserve could develop into the KwaZulu-Natal equivalent of Mala-Mala and Timbavati, provincial arts, culture and tourism minister Narend Singh said on Friday. He was speaking at the official launch of the 24 000ha privately owned reserve in the Msunduzi River valley, near Mkuze.
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/ 15 October 2005
Bridging the gap between South Africa’s first and second economies needs deliberate action, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the Black Management Forum in Johannesburg on Friday. ”Bridging the gap needs deliberate steps. It won’t just sommer happen,” she said.
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/ 15 October 2005
It seems an obvious response to a pressing problem. If there are thousands of orphaned children in South Africa who cannot find a home in their extended families, then why not place more emphasis on adoption? And if adoptive families cannot be found locally, why not look abroad?
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/ 15 October 2005
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma has asked the state to pay the legal costs of his corruption trial, Beeld newspaper reported on Saturday. Presidency spokesperson Murphey Morobe confirmed Zuma had made the request. The matter is still being decided on.
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/ 14 October 2005
Western Cape African National Congress dissidents on Friday displayed soccer-style red cards to condemn the actions of provincial executive committee members during a protest at the ANC’s regional headquarters. The red and yellow cards targeted provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha and others.
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/ 14 October 2005
The draft preliminary design report for the Gautrain Rapid Rail link was released for public comment on Friday. The report, released by the Gauteng department of public transport, roads and works, provides details of some of the stations planned between Johannesburg and Pretoria.