2008-10-13
Mbeki Tries to Break Cabinet Deadlock
Former President Thabo Mbeki will travel to Zimbabwe on Monday to try to assist in a political deadlock over the agreed upon unity government in that country.2008-10-13
ANC Rivals Step Up War of Words
More senior African National Congress (ANC) members are expected this week to side with former defence minister Mosiuoa Lekota's breakaway group as the rebels develop the momentum needed to hold a national convention. 2008-10-13
Ruling ANC Axes Cape Town Rebels
A task team led by ANC national executive committee member Tony Yengeni is to take charge of the party's disbanded Cape Metro region from Monday, as ANC dissidents face losing their jobs as councillors. 2008-10-13
White Lions Make History At Reserve
Rare white lions have been released into the wild at Sanbona wildlife reserve, making the Klein Karoo wildlife reserve home to what's believed to be the only free-roaming white lions in the world. 2008-10-13
Unknown Illness Identified
The virus which has caused the death of three people has been provisionally identified as the rodent-borne Arenavirus. 2008-10-13
Fifa Inspection Team Praise 2010 Preparations
FIFA and the 2010 Organising Committee (OC) last week concluded a 10 day inspection tour of all ten FIFA World Cup stadiums with warm praise for the general construction status. 2008-10-13
Regular Breast Examination Helps to Detect Cancer
The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has urged all women to look after their health by checking their breasts each month for changes to help detect breast cancer. 2008-10-13
Zimbabweans Flood SA As Power-Sharing Deal Troubled
Park station in downturn Johannesburg, South Africa teems with Zimbabweans arriving in the land of plenty in rattled buses that dramatise the escalating economic crisis back home. 2008-10-13
Anxious Wait to See If Markets Rebound
TRADERS will be perched on the edge of their seats when markets open this morning after global stocks went into free fall on Friday, capping one of the worst weeks since the 1987 market meltdown. 2008-10-13
Policy Delay Hits Textile Industry
POLICY paralysis in the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) is compounding problems for the region's struggling clothing and textiles industry. 2008-10-13
Numsa Boss in Tough Re-Election Bid After Fallout With Cosatu
NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) general secretary Silumko Nondwangu will fight the battle of his life this week to get re-elected to the leadership of the union. 2008-10-13
Elevation Biotech Partners With Global Initiative for Aids Vaccine
Local biotechnology company Elevation Biotech has entered into a partnership with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) to pursue its research into developing a jab against the disease. 2008-10-13
Crisis and Response
IT SEEMS an immense irony that the country that caused all the trouble should be the one whose currency should benefit from the "flight to safety". 2008-10-13
Land Affairs Moves to Address Weakness in Financial Controls
THE land affair department had already taken the necessary steps to address weaknesses in its financial controls that resulted in a qualified audit from the auditor-general for a string of irregularities, it said on Friday. 2008-10-13
ANC Changes Tune on SABC Board
The African National Congress (ANC) has backed down from its insistence that the speaker of the National Assembly should have a say in the appointment of SABC board members, and has agreed to change the Broadcasting Amendment Bill to remove this power. 2008-10-13
Gauteng Recoups R11 Million Lost to Fraud, Projects
More than R11m had been recovered from housing subsidy fraud and uncompleted housing projects in Gauteng, while R26m was owed by developers to the Eastern Cape provincial government, Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said last week . 2008-10-13
No Break for Bafana
Despite their great victory against Equatorial Guinea in the World Cup/Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at the weekend, Bafana Bafana coach Joel Santana has not given his team a break. 2008-10-13
Country Facing a Humanitarian Emergency
The State of the Nation is not just how the economy is doing, or how strong the Rand is. The State of the Nation is about how well the people of South Africa are doing. Are they able to live with dignity, able to feed their children, able to meet their basic needs, able to access employment, education, health care? According to the views expressed during the poverty hearings, the State of the Nation is dire. Communities are crippled by poverty. It is a state of emergency. 2008-10-13
Ask the Right Questions to Prevent Further Tragedies
TWO significant reports were released by the government in recent weeks: Towards a Fifteen-Year Review; and a damning task team report on the investigation of the deaths of 140 Eastern Cape infants during the first three months of this year. 2008-10-13
Finding a CE 'Is Next Test for Nampak'
A MAJOR shareholder of Nampak, which last week survived an attempt by Bidvest to buy up to 30% of it, said on Friday it now had to deal with the new challenge of finding a CE to replace John Bortolan, who leaves next year. |
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