Zuma downplays alliance rifts at Cosatu conference
The National Planning Commission is a necessary means of implementing economic policy, President Jacob Zuma told delegates at the 10th annual Cosatu congress in Midrand on Monday. “It is done to align our work so we can deliver,” he said. Zuma also downplayed disagreements between Cosatu and the government over striking SA National Defence Force [...]
Complaints should go to local government first
Service delivery complaints should be lodged with local and provincial government structures before calling the presidential hotline, the presidency said on Wednesday. “The public is advised to first pursue all their service delivery complaints with their local and provincial complaints structures. Only when their issues are not resolved, the public should escalate their challenges to [...]
Zuma call centre hotline inundated with calls
President Jacob Zuma’s complaints hotline received 7 261 calls between 9am and noon — or 40 calls per minute — on its first day on Monday, his office said. “We are experiencing high call volumes and are spending the day sorting out various glitches,” Zuma’s spokesman Vusi Mona, said in a statement. “The hotline has [...]
‘Blade Runner’ Pistorius in assault charge
Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius spent Saturday night behind bars for allegedly assaulting a woman who had attended a gathering at his Silverlakes house, Bronkhorspruit police said on Sunday. The 22-year-old was arrested on Saturday night after the 19-year-old woman opened an assault case against him, said Sergeant Marinda Stoltz. “The woman was allegedly fighting with [...]
Vital Test a beacon of SA progress – Smit
The Springboks have welcomed Hamilton as the venue for Saturday’s crucial Tri-Nations Test against the All Blacks as a means of showcasing SA’s progress since the end of apartheid. The showdown between the two Titans of world rugby is being played on the same ground where anti-apartheid protestors stormed the field in 1981 to force the [...]
SA falls two places in World Bank survey
SA fell two places in the World Bank’s 2010 Doing Business Report, entitled “Reforming Through Difficult Times, released on Wednesday. The World Bank said SA ranked 34 in the survey, from 32 the previous year. The index ranks 183 participants in 10 categories including starting a business, dealing with the construction permits, employing workers, registering [...]
Von Zeuner is Ramos’s new deputy at Absa
A new executive structure for banking group Absa was announced on Monday by its group CEO Maria Ramos. The new structure included the appointment of a deputy group CE, Louis von Zeuner, she said in a statement. Von Zeuner was formerly CE of the group’s retail and commercial banking activities. The deputy group CE would [...]
Public enterprises DG calls it quits
The director-general of public enterprises, Portia Molefe, has resigned after five years in the post, the department said on Friday. It said Molefe was leaving “to pursue other interests”. “She will serve three months notice and will leave the department at the end of November 2009.” Public enterprises minister Barbara Hogan thanked Molefe for “her [...]
Ministry defends Blade’s R1,1m BMW purchase
The ministry of higher education insisted on Wednesday that it bought a R1,1m 7-Series BMW for its minister, Blade Nzimande, out of necessity. Spokeswoman Ranjeni Munusamy said Nzimande, the general secretary of the SA Communist Party, is “opposed to any form of unnecessary extravagance”. “The minister of higher education & training is a new member [...]
District 9 rakes in R2m in opening weekend
The science fiction movie District 9, which features a huge alien space ship hovering over Johannesburg, earned about R2m in its opening weekend in South Africa, Beeld newspaper reported on Tuesday. Ster-Kinekor marketing manager Corlize Luttig said this was the highest earnings for an opening weekend in SA, for a movie with an age restriction [...]
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