SA passes new mine safety bill
PARLIAMENT on Friday passed new mine safety laws which enforce stricter penalties and hold mine CEOs criminally liable for deaths in some of the world’s deepest mines.
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Governments scramble as market rout intensifies
GOVERNMENTS around the world took more steps yesterday to soften the blow of the global economic turmoil as stocks plunged and commodity prices and currencies weakened.
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COPE hopefuls will be no-name brands
LOCAL councillors who have quit the African National Congress (ANC) to join the Congress of the People (COPE) will have to contest by-elections on December 10 as independent candidates.
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SA blocks R300m Zimbabwe aid deal
A SOUTH African aid package of R300m for Zimbabwe would be withheld until a representative government was in place, the cabinet said yesterday.
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Cabinet approves electricity pricing policy
IN A move to bring certainty and predictability to electricity pricing, the cabinet has approved the electricity pricing policy.
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Needs of every municipality to be gauged
PROVINCIAL and Local Government Minister Sicelo Shiceka said yesterday the government would soon conduct audits across all the country’s municipalities to determine the full extent of infrastructure backlogs.
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Western Cape ‘less vulnerable’ to waning economy
CAPE TOWN — While Western Cape was not going to avoid the effects of the global financial crisis and economic downturn, it was probably less vulnerable than other provinces that were more resource-based, finance MEC Garth Strachan said yesterday .
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Local academic helps found online varsity
A UNIVERSITY of the Western Cape (UWC) academic is one of a group of five academics worldwide who plan to open a new kind of online university.
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ID deputy president joins new party
IN A major coup for the Congress of the People (COPE), one of the two deputy presidents of the Independent Democrats (ID), Simon Grindrod, has defected to the newly formed party.
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SA puts pressure on Zimbabwe’s parties
THE South African government has lambasted the bickering parties in Zimbabwe, saying that a lack of political will has resulted in ordinary Zimbabweans bearing the brunt of the constitutional stalemate in that country.
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Motlanthe to release report on Pikoli to public
PRESIDENT Kgalema Motlanthe had “no problem” with making public former speaker Frene Ginwala’s report on suspended national director of public prosecutions Vusi Pikoli’s fitness to hold office.
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