The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s management body has two days to meet the 12, 2% salary increase demand by unions.
More than 300 SABC employees sacrificed their lunch hour on Wednesday to demand a 12,2% salary increase.
SABC spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said on Tuesday that there will be no broadcast blackouts should a strike by SABC workers go ahead.
There were five different ways I could walk — five different ways to repeat the routes that the students who marched on June 16 1976 had taken.
Somali pirates have once again delayed Seacom’s cable installation plans, shifting the switch-on date to late July.
A freeboarding outing among colleagues turned into a freak accident in Kugersdorp on Sunday afternoon after an aeroplane collided with a car.
Journalist Stefaans Brümmer’s arguments this week on the constitutionality of sections of the PAIA may result in a change in the Act.
Johannesburg Metro police will fine political parties if they don’t remove their election posters by Monday, spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said.
Eskom gives cash-strapped Pamodzi Gold less than a week to settle its electricity bills amounting millions of rands to avoid power cuts at operations.
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/ 27 February 2009
The new ART guidelines strictly state that initiation of treatment should not be delayed for more than a week in patients who fit certain criteria.
The feel-good factor is boosting the local beauty industry, regardless of the economic crisis. Thembelihle Tshabalala reports.
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/ 10 December 2008
Survey reveals that the new ‘black diamonds’ are less bling-obsessed and more financially prudent. writes Thembelihle Tshabalala.
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/ 5 December 2008
South Africans are not optimistic about the future, according to this year’s South African Reconciliation barometer.
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/ 4 December 2008
David Tlale’s new range aims to make fuller-figured women feel light and feminine, writes Thembelihle Tshabalala.
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/ 14 October 2008
Nosimilo Ndlovu and Thembelihle Tshabalala asked ordinary South Africans to share their views on the possibility of a new political party.
The increasing rate of the amount of copper cables being stolen has put pressure on affected companies to implement interventions.
Residents of a Gauteng camp for refugees from xenophobic violence risk being thrown out of the country if they don’t register for temporary ID cards.
A woman sitting on a basket quietly stirs a pan of spinach on a paraffin stove. Children run around noisily between plastic bags, suitcases, blankets and mattresses.
It took them a while to wake up and stop arguing about whose fault it was, but almost three weeks after xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals began, authorities in the worst-affected provinces have moved into action. Reintegration is the new game plan of the national government, Gauteng and the Western Cape.
The appalling condition of most hostels for migrant workers around Johannesburg havenՉ۪t changed since the days of apartheid.
It’s 6am and it’s already busy at the Bree Street taxi rank. Taxis are honking their horns, pavement entrepreneurs are hawking their goods and commuters are forming lines, waiting for their taxis. It may be early for some, but Zodwa Khumalo, one of only a handful of women taxi drivers, started her day at 3am.
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Lawyers’ Association has effectively been barred from observing Saturday’s Zimbabwean elections. The association filed an application to the Zimbabwean embassy in Botswana at the beginning of March, but has not received any formal response.
If you build it, they will come. When City of Johannesburg councillor Bongani Zondi looked at Soweto’s Arthur Ashe tennis courts, he didn’t see dusty tarmac and frayed nets. In his mind, a library stood there, welcoming Sowetans to a world of books and knowledge.
South African high flyers are known to love their drink; how some of them handle it is a different story.
The perfect hangover cure has long been the Holy Grail for barflies and near-teetotallers alike.
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/ 17 February 2008
It was described as the show that couldn’t close, but on Sunday the curtain will finally come down on the <i>Lion King</i>, by far and away South Africa’s most popular stage production. This internationally acclaimed musical entered the South African theatre scene in June last year, and its stay has been extended three times.
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/ 30 January 2008
An organisation formed by women’s rights activists in response to Jacob Zuma’s rape trial has been denied an opportunity to hold a "peaceful protest" outside the Emperors Palace casino complex in Gauteng where visiting boxing champion Mike Tyson is to attend a charity fund-raising event.
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/ 15 January 2008
Video games in freight containers won a Sowetan entrepreneur a cash prize of R100Â 000 at a Johannesburg business college on Tuesday. Between October and December last year, more than 50 hopeful Sowetan business people entered the Soweto Entrepreneur Business Plan competition.
The hallways were teeming with shoppers — and perhaps those just wanting to be seen — in Soweto’s spanking new Maponya Mall during December. According to mall management, approximately 45Â 000 people visited the R650-million shopping centre daily. Restaurants such as News Café and Primi Bazala drew in many upmarket young Sowetans.
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/ 18 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>Membership of the African National Congress has grown to 620Â 000 members from 416Â 000 members in 2002. A national conference, the most powerful gathering of the party, is a perfect opportunity to assess who makes up the ANC. Who is the typical ANC member and what do they believe in?
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/ 17 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=ancconference_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/327874/livefrompolo.gif" align=left border=0></a>Thousands of delegates to the ANC’s 52nd national conference converged on Polokwane International Airport on Saturday to register in a cavernous hangar for the event. The regiÂstration hangar was a free-for-all for groups supporting either Thabo Mbeki or Jacob Zuma.
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/ 13 December 2007
Dark nights and candle-lit suppers may seem romantic, but South African retailers are losing money in what is usually the year’s most lucrative business month as they struggle to operate through repeated power failures caused by Eskom’s load-shedding programme.