The government and the SA Older Persons Forum have agreed to work together to improve services for older people, they said on Thursday. Following a meeting between the forum and the Deputy Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini, they agreed to co-operate on some key points, a statement said. These include the finalisation of an ...
Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu has dismissed as “baseless, malicious and misleading” claims that the health department has not paid mental health sector nongovernmental organisations (NGOs). “We remain committed to ensure that NGOs and other organisations which assist the department to deliver services receive funding without any delays as their role is essential in the ...
Road widening works on highways in Gauteng were about 80 percent complete, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) said on Thursday. In addition, 20 of 34 interchange improvements had been completed, Sanral said in a statement. Most of the road works had been suspended for the 2010 World Cup and would resume after the ...
After achieving notable success in dealing with the worst economic crisis in decades, major countries are now struggling to manage the global recovery. Leaders of the Group of 20 rich industrial and major developing countries were wrapping up their summit by agreeing to pursue separate strategies to sustain the fledgling economic comeback. The United States ...
Africa was seeking equal partnerships at forums like the G20 and G8 for meaningful growth and development, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday. Speaking from Canada, where he is to attend the G20 summit on Sunday and Monday, Zuma said that Africa had seen substantial growth over the past couple of years. He said Sub-Saharan Africa ...
A strike by National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union members over wages at the University of SA spread to other provinces on Thursday, the union said. Hundreds of employees protested outside the university’s head office in Pretoria on Wednesday. “Staff in other campuses in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo have joined the strike,” union spokesman ...
White job applicants should be given preference over foreign black candidates, Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana said this week, as foreign nationals were not targeted for affirmative action under the Employment Equity Act. While the elimination of unfair discrimination in the workplace applied to all employers and employees, affirmative action provisions applied only to designated employers ...
Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has praised emergency services and security guards for their prompt action after a fire broke out at an Armscor facility in Centurion. It is reported that the fire broke out around 8pm on Wednesday. Defence spokesperson Siphiwe Dlamini says fire fighters and police isolated and prevented the fire from spreading to ...
Jonathan Shapiro’s cartoon of “Lady Justice” about to be raped by ANC president Jacob Zuma with the help of his political allies did not constitute hate speech, unfair discrimination or a violation of any human right enshrined in the Constitution, the South African Human Rights Commission has found. The Commission this week dismissed ...
A Landmark Constitutional Court ruling has given the City of Johannesburg the sole authority to process future township and commercial development applications, closing the door to developers who have relied on the provincial government to fast-track the process. But there are concerns that municipalities may struggle to process the applications, resulting in approval delays that ...
Newly-released figures show that South Africa’s producer price inflation increased to 6.8% year-on-year in May from 5.5% in April. Statistics South Africa says exported commodities inflation stood at 4.8% year-on-year in May compared with 0.2% the month before. Imported commodities inflation accelerated to 6.5% year-on-year from 5.0% previously. Meanwhile, real gross fixed capital formation, SA’s ...
Parliament has confirmed that the Congress of the People’s parliamentary funding has been frozen with immediate effect, the SABC reported on Thursday. Spokesman Luzuko Jacobs confirmed to the SABC that this was done at the request of the party’s president Mosiuoa Lekota on Wednesday. The funding is the money that was supposed to be allocated ...
South Africa’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Jerry Matjila, should have used “more elegant” language when he opposed adding gay rights to the UN’s anti-racism and discrimination agenda, his boss said yesterday. But Ayanda Ntsaluba, Director-General of International Relations and Co-operation, nonetheless supported Matjila’s controversial stand that adding gay rights would “distract” the UN ...
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will visit South Africa for the World Cup final on July 11, the Department of International Relations said on Thursday. “Brazil is hosting the World Cup in 2014 and it is customary for Fifa to invite the President of the next host country to the final,” Director-General Ayanda ...
A South African rescue team on Thursday (last week) left for the DR Congo to help retrieve the remains of the victims of an air crash. The plane, carrying the board of Australian mining firm Sundance Resources, crashed into a dense jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday. “Rescue SA received an official ...
A Foreign Ministry official says South Africa is probing whether the shooting in Johannesburg last week of Rwanda’s former army chief was a political assassination attempt. Four people were arrested after exiled general Faustin Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach and wounded on Saturday as he was entering his home in the northern suburbs of ...
England fans, who gathered the length and breadth of the country, with some 80,000 ditching the music for sport at the Glastonbury Festival, were left deflated after their team was thrashed 4-1 by Germany. It was England’s worst defeat in the World Cup finals. Two goals from Thomas Muller, plus strikes from Miroslav Klose and Lukas ...
President Jacob Zuma addressed foreign leaders at a G20 gathering in Canada on Saturday, calling for more meaningful partnerships between the international community and Africa in order to promote growth and development in the continent. “As Africa we bring to the G20 Summit the key message that we must, together as the developing and developed worlds, promote ...
The Security Council has urged Burundi’s political parties to participate fully in the country’s legislative elections next month, and work to ensure the proper conduct of the presidential poll scheduled for Monday, amid reports that the opposition is boycotting the presidential contest. In a press statement issued late yesterday, the Council also commended Burundi for ...
As major economies continue to cope with the global financial crisis, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged businesses to think differently about how and where they devote resources, stressing the importance of investing in developing nations to promote global growth. “We can’t afford not to invest in the developing world. We all know that’s where the ...
Although Africa was the third most favoured continent for tourism investment after Southeast Asia and India, the continent still failed to communicate these opportunities to potential international investors. This is according to Hubert Danson, MD of African Investment, a pan-African investment communications firm, who was one of the speakers at a tourism investment conference held ...
We buy social peace in our neighbours, especially in Lesotho and Swaziland, as they would not be able to survive without the revenue they were receiving through the customs union Southern African Development Community (SADC) executive secretary Tomáz Salomão yesterday criticised the European Union (EU) for trying to “impose” a preferential free-trade agreement on countries ...
Members of the Kimberley Process diamond certification scheme failed on Thursday to reach consensus on whether to allow Zimbabwe to resume trade in gems from its controversial Marange fields. Delegates at a KP conference in Tel Aviv failed during an all-night session to agree over whether to resume certification of the fields, which was withdrawn ...
Nigeria’s will seek recognition and embrace as a mature partner at the forum of the Group of Eight (G8) most industrialised nations, and will not beg for aid, Nigerian officials said. “It is not in terms of coming here with a cap in hand begging for aid for Nigeria,” the country’s envoy in Canada Iyorwuese ...
Poland’s trade union Solidarity is eyeing the South African Vuvuzela as an attention-getter to use at protests, the daily Metro reported on Thursday. The horn, which is drowning out other noise at the soccer World Cup, has caught the eye of the labour union once lead by Lech Walesa, famous for his anti-communist protests in ...
In about a week’s time President Jacob Zuma will be discarding his suit for a soccer kit and boots. Zuma, a keen soccer player in his youth, will be captaining a team at a Unity Cup tournament on July 3 before the World Cup quarter-final game at Cape Town Stadium. The tournament is part of ...
Former US President Bill Clinton said on Thursday South Africa’s successful hosting of the World Cup had defied the country’s critics and cast the country in a positive light. “South Africa has branded itself in this World Cup in a very special way. Lots of people didn’t think you can pull it off,” Clinton said ...
South African President Jacob Zuma will attend celebrations in Kinshasa marking the 50th anniversary of independence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Foreign Ministry said Thursday. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and King Albert II of Belgium, the former colonial power, are also expected to attend the June 30 events. “This is a ...
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday expressed his condolences to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva following the deaths of 45 people in flooding in north eastern Brazil. “At a time when we, the people of the south, should all be rejoicing on our achievements, I have learnt with a deep sense of sadness of ...
UN Ban Ki-Moon speech during “A special evening on justice” – Kampala (Uganda) 30 May 2010 from AfricanewsITALY on Vimeo. This is the speech of UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon. Ambassador Wenaweser, President of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute, Prosecutor Ferencz, Miss Rehn of the Trust Fund for Victims, Mr. Bazilj of the Cinema ...
