Cape Town – Striking public servants should keep their protests within the limits of “basic human decency”, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday. In his first public address since his return from a state visit to China, he said government respected the right of workers to go on strike in support of their demands. “However, we reiterate ...

South African police fired rubber bullets to disperse crowds blocking roads and healthcare workers prevented patients from entering hospitals as a strike by more than a million civil servants grew on Thursday. Strike: Day 2 The walkout in pursuit of higher wages that started a day earlier has slowed the treatment of the sick and shut schools ...

Scores of soccer faithfuls will attend Saturday’s sold-out Telkom Charity Cup tournament at Soccer City. The stadium’s capacity has increased from 84 000 to 88 000 and since its facelift, it will be the first time a domestic tournament is held there with the return of the popular pre-season tournament to the calabash-shaped stadium. The ...

 by Prof Adam Habib, Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research, Innovation & Advancement at the University of Johannesburg The recent African Union (AU) summit in Kampala saw SA come under significant pressure to send troops to bolster Ugandan and Burundian peacekeepers in Somalia. African leaders, however, were not the only ones applying the pressure. It seems the Americans ...

SA Tourism will spend R188m on a marketing drive for the rest of the financial year to ensure that millions of international soccer fans who came to SA for the World Cup become regular visitors. The local SA Tourism office would spend R88m, while its satellite offices globally would spend R100m on a campaign that ...

Businesses were performing “dismally” when it came to implementing equality in the workplace, the Commission for Gender Equality said on Monday. “It is apparent that progress made regarding gender transformation in political leadership and among state entities is not replicated in the corporate arena, and that women and people with disabilities are under-represented at all ...

The Vhavenda community joyously welcomed President Jacob Zuma’s announcement last week that Chief Tony Mphephu-Ramabulana was their paramount chief. This weekend the tribe had a feast to celebrate the news and the new chief’s birthday. The news also ended the protracted dispute about who was the rightful leader of the Venda people. Mphephu-Ramabulana was celebrating ...

The number of rhinos poached in South Africa is on the increase, with 139 killed so far this year, more than all of last year. The surge in poaching is driven by demand for rhino horns in Asia, where they are considered aphrodisiacs. A private game reserve near Johannesburg is welcoming ...

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At the invitation of the President of the Republic, Mr Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, the President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is due to arrive in the Republic of South Africa on a State Visit from 8 to 11 July 2010. South Africa strongly believes that President Lula’s visit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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SA is no longer accepting any travel documents other than passports, in a move that will affect travellers from neighbouring countries where the availability of passports is often hampered by extensive application backlogs. Department of Home Affairs Director-General Mkhuseli Apleni said on Tuesday that while hand- written passports were still recognised, single-sheet travel papers were no ...

All eyes were on the Soweto’s historic Orlando stadium yesterday, where a huge international musical concert, geared towards the commencement of 2010 world cup was a boom. The musical artists and celebrities, dozens of them, both from within and outside the African continent all registered their wonderful messages, wrapped in music and short commentaries. The combination of ...

If you haven’t heard of anything about Africa lately it’s certainly not about the world cup in South Africa. As a special sound is dominating that part of the continent, the whole world is been summoned with a great attention. Having been rippled with the horrors of apartheid and racial divides for years, South Africa has now ...

The Gautrain was officially launched at a celebration at Gallagher Estate, north of Johannesburg, on Sunday night. The service between the Sandton Station and O.R Tambo International Airport will start running on Tuesday, a few days ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup kick-off. The initial service for the Gautrain, which reaches speeds of up ...

Two women were arrested on Sunday for allegedly defrauding the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) of about R4m in Msane, KwaZulu Natal police said. One of the women was believed to be a wife of an Inkatha Freedom Party counsellor in the area, said Lieutenant Colonel Vincent Mdunge. Mdunge said the two women were employees ...

Retailers in the sports and restaurant categories will lead the sales boost during the World Cup while furniture and informal retailers will bring up the rear. Economists predict South Africa’s retail sector could contribute just 0.4 percent to gross domestic product (GDP) through additional consumer spending as initial estimates of the expected influx of tourists ...

Mosiuoa Lekota on Sunday won his battle in the High Court in Johannesburg to remain president of the Congress of the People (COPE). The decision by Judge Rami Mathopo effectively overturns a vote of no confidence made against Lekota and COPE head of communications Phillip Dexter at the party’s policy conference on 28 May. Mathopo ...

The tripartite alliance secretariat met on Thursday amid uncertainty over reports that the ANC had discussed disciplining Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu said the secretariat meeting was a routine one. It was about preparing for an alliance summit next month — between the ANC, the Congress of SA Trade Unions, the ...

The government (South Africa) is not taking any chances over the possibility that xenophobic attacks could flare up after the World Cup, although it has received no concrete intelligence to suggest people from other countries are in danger.  The Cabinet has decided to re-establish an inter-ministerial committee to investigate threats against and attacks on foreigners, ...

Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi officially opened the Medunsa Clinical Research Unit on Thursday to celebrate World Aids Vaccine Day. Motsoaledi highlighted the importance of the HIV/Aids vaccine’s coming out of Africa as the continent was mainly affected by the virus. He said researchers could not wait for other countries to come up with ...

 Lack of transformation in Agribusiness has led to the industry’s black economic empowerment programmes scoring low for management control and employment equity, an independent study shows. The study, presented to the Agricultural Business Chamber’s congress in Somerset West in the Western Cape yesterday, was compiled by the University of Pretoria’s Prof Johann Kirsten as well ...

Funding for the expansion and upgrade of toll roads, particularly the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project, stood at R17.7 billion, the SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) said yesterday in a statement.  The agency said that in its fifth bond auction for 2010 it had raised R400 million under its domestic medium-term note programme carrying a ...

The R2.3 billion spent on improving and enlarging Cape Town International Airport had more than doubled the number of passengers it could handle, from 23 000 a day to 55 000, general manager Deon Cloete said at a media briefing yesterday.  Although the work has been carried out in readiness for the World Cup, the ...