TUESDAY, 9.00AM: THE South African Chamber of Business on Monday slated recent changes to labour laws, labelling them biased in favour of labour, and likely to inhibit job creation. In a submission to the National Assembly’s labour portfolio committee, which is holding hearings on the labour Budget vote, Sacob said the cumulative effect of the […]
THE Egyptian parliament has unanimously scrapped a century-old law that exempted a rapist from punishment if he married his victim, a parliamentary source said on Tuesday. Parliament adopted the change on Monday evening. The move came amid a media campaign that followed outrage from women’s groups over the freeing in December of three rape suspects […]
THE Democratic Party has called on government to unilaterally deduct money from the salaries of all officials and politicians who refuse to pay child maintenance. The call follows revelations that a string of senior Mpumalanga leaders have dodged paying child maintenance for up to ten months at a time. DP spokesman Manny De Camara said […]
AT LEAST a hundred South African Airways employees on Tuesday staged an illegal protest at Johannesburg International Airport over last week’s retrenchment of about 90 employees, SABC Radio News reported. The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union said the retrenchments contradicted agreements reached with management. SAA spokesman Leon Els said the work stoppage has […]
MOZAMBICAN President Joaquim Chissano arrived in the Portuguese capital on Tuesday at the start of a six-day state visit aimed at strengthening economic ties between Lisbon and its former colony. Chissano is scheduled to hold talks with his Portuguese counterpart, Jorge Sampaio, who met his guest on his arrival, and Prime Minister Antonio Guterres.He is […]
A NIGERIAN oil firm, Petrogas and Energy plc, is suing the military government over the controversial allocation last month of 11 oil prospecting licences, a report said on Wednesday. Petrogas lawyer Peresuo Isaac-Dema said military ruler General Abdulsalami Abubakar and other top officials have been named as respondents in the case, the newspaper This Day […]
THE Democratic Republic of Congo have been disqualified from the All-Africa Games qualifiers, the African Football Confederation (CAF) announced Tuesday. DR Congo failed to arrive in the Central African Republic for a second-round match this month and their opponents face Cameroon during July for a place at the finals. CAF said Senegal would stage the […]
ELEPHANTS in the Kruger National Park have been spared the bullet for this year, but their reprieve may be short-lived. “We will not be culling this year,” said Dr Leo Braack, general manager for the park’s conservation development department on Wednesday. “But if we are to cull, we will likely do so next year,” he […]
RUBEN Kruger ius likely to start for the Northern Bulls when they face defending Super 12 champions, the Canterbury Crusaders on Saturday. The veteran Springbok flank should provide a much-needed boost for the ailing side, who have not won any of their eight games. Another seasoned Bok campaigner, wing Jacques Olivier, will play centre as […]
THE organisers of a campaign to urge the government to provide rape survivors with the drugs which are thought to lessen the chances of contracting HIV/Aids have called on supporters to make a noise at noon on Thursday. Organisers, who include People Opposed to Women Abuse, the Union of Jewish Women and the Sandton Crisis […]
MALAWI have included two South African-based footballers in the squad for a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship match against Angola in Blantyre on April 24. Defender Patrick Mabedi comes from Johannesburg glamour club Kaizer Chiefs while midfielder John Maduka plays for the less fashionable Eastern Cape club Bush Bucks. National coach Jack Chamangwana has included […]
LIBYA is to get Russian S-300 surface-to-air missiles now that sanctions against that country have been lifted, the head of the Russian firm which makes the weapon was quoted Tuesday as saying. Yuri Rodin-Sova, president of the Russian group Oboronitelnye Systemy, said: “I won’t be betraying a secret in saying that Libya has approached us […]
THIRTEEN South African fishermen were presumed drowned off the country’s Eastern Cape coast on Tuesday after rescue services called off a two-day air and sea search for their sunken trawler. During the intensive search, the bodies of three of the 16 crew were fished out of the rough seas Monday off the small port of […]
FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda arrived in Johannesburg on Tuesday to address a pre-election conference on democracy, Independent Electoral Commission spokesman Victor Dlamini said. Kaunda is one of several international guests who will speak at the conference organised by the IEC. Former Botswanan president Sir Ketumile Masire is among the other guests invited to address […]
COMMANDOS and police in Mpumalanga have arrested 1694 illegal immigrants and criminals since the beginning of the month. Offences included illegal border crossings, possession of unregistered guns, and assault, said army spokeswoman Lize Pienaar in a statement on Wednesday. “This was a result of deploying our commando units to work jointly with the police at […]
SHARES in integrated metals and minerals group Iscor sagged more than 6% on Tuesday on a bout of profit-taking after the share’s recent commodity cycle inspired rally. By 11.00amIscor stocks were down 15 cents or 6,67% to 210 cents, trading 2,7-million shares. Iscor shares have gained more than 78% since February 15 when it scrapped […]
AN 18-year-old youth was shot dead on the Cape Flats on Tuesday in what is thought to be a gang-related killing. Police spokesman Captain Jacques Wiese on Wednesday said Craig Martin of Westridge was shot in the back during a fight between the Jakkies and School Boys gangs. He died at the scene. On Monday, […]
MPUMALANGA’S safety and security MEC Jacques Modipane has finally coughed up a portion of the R3000 he owes for ten months of outstanding child maintenance. The payment for his two-year-old illegitimate child came too late, however, to prevent the Mbibane magistrate’s court from issuing a second warrant for his arrest on contempt of court charges […]
HUNDREDS of Cape Town taxi operators gathered outside the provincial legislature building on Wednesday after blocking the major routes into the city on Wednesday morning. The drivers, members of the Convention for a Democratic Taxi Association and the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association, are demanding provincial government revise conditions for issuing road transport permits. They claim […]
ANGOLAN separatist rebels of the Cabinda Enclave Liberation Front said on Tuesday they urgently want to negotiate with Paris the release of two French hostages abducted in March, together with two Portuguese.On March 10, a French employee of oil company LPF and another from Boyangol — the Angolan subsidiary of the French Bouygues group — […]
BRETT Liddle ended a two-year win drought with his one-shot victory in the Vodacom Tour’s Lombard Tyres Classic at the Krugersdorp Golf Club on Saturday. A final round 69 saw him finish the 72-hole tournament on 19-under-par 269. Hennie Otto took second place a shot back after his 67, while Roger Wessels finished third on […]
THE Namibian government is to introduce a policy which will lift the veil of secrecy over Aids by informing close relatives that their next of kin is carrying the deadly virus. In a move aimed at de-stigmatising people with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the resultant acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the Aids condition is […]
A PRIDE of lions has emerged victorious from a ferocious two-week battle with a pack of hyenas in the Ethiopian desert. The two groups of animals had been locked in almost daily combat as they struggled for supremacy but the lions finally prevailed, the state news agency reported on Monday. “The king of the jungle […]
UGANDAN women’s groups are protesting the proposed mock-marriage of a 13-year-old schoolgirl to the 40-year-old king of the Baganda, Ronald Mutebi, which may force her to remain a virgin for the rest of her life.The mock-wedding with the kabaka is a prelude to his real marriage later this year to Sylvia Nagginda Luswata, a US-resident […]
BRENDA Webb and daughter Colleen on Sunday wrote their own chapter in South African sporting history by becoming the first mother and daughter to win their sections in the singles event in a national championship. The two, playing in the women’s national in Port Elizabeth, reached the last 32 of the singles and play again […]
SPRINGBOK and Northern Bulls centre Andre Snyman is out of the Super 12 with a knee injury. One of the stars of the bok backline, Snayman has had a lacklustre season so far. Meanwhile, controversial flyhalf/centre Hennie le Roux has turned down an SOS call from the Northern Bulls weeks after he refused to play […]
WOOLWORTHS Holdings Limited announced on Wednesday that it intends to acquire a strategic 13,5% stake in Netactive Limited, an internet service provider which listed on the JSE on Wednesday. It has been agreed in principle that Netactive will issue for cash 6,667 million ordinary shares to Woolworths, for a total consideration of R8-million. Commenting on […]
President Nelson Mandela will pay a state visit to China from May 5 to 7 at the invitation of President Jiang Zemin.
SOUTH Africa barred a top coach from joining Pakistan’s World Cup squad because of fears he may disclose playing secrets to their rivals. English-born Richard Pybus, who coached Border to both the first-class and limited overs provincial finals this season, was appointed on Thursday as Pakistan’s technical coach and fitness trainer for the World Cup. […]
FALCONS hooker Stuart Williams has been banned from rugby for four years, two of which are suspended, for kicking Griquas flanker Hanu Nel in the face during Saturday’s Vodacom Cup rugby match at the Bosman Stadium in Brakpan. The sentence was meted out at a SA Rugby Football Union disciplinary hearing at Loftus Versfeld in […]
UGANDA drew 0-0 with Kenya in the second round return leg of the All Africa Games under-23 qualifying match played here on Saturday. Uganda qualified for the third round on a 2-0 goal aggregate, having won the first leg 2-0 in Kampala two weeks ago. Uganda now meets in the third round in July the […]
SOME 18000 Anglo American Platinum Corporation (Amplats) workers embarked on strike action at two if its mines on Wednesday. Striking workers, organised by the Mouthpeace Workers Union, came out on strike at the Rustenburg and Union platinum mines, to protest management’s insistence that National Union of Mineworkers be included in a task team to investigate […]