South Africa will play Mexico in the opening game of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The match will be played at Soccer City in Johannesburg at 4pm on Friday 11 June. South Africa is placed at 86th, according to Fifa’s world rankings, while Mexico is ranked 15th. Source: www.sapa.org.za; 20091104
PUBLIC SECTOR DOCTORS IN SHORT SUPPLY – DA
Thousands of public sector vacancies for doctors could be filled by foreign doctors yet the Health Department is taking up to a year to issue the required documentation for them to work. “On average every hospital in the country is short of 40 doctors, yet the Foreign Workforce Management Programme (FWMP) in the Department of […]
ONE HICCUP AS MATRICS SIT FINAL DAY OF EXAM
The leaking of five matric papers in Mpumalanga had been the only proven hiccup marring the National Senior Certificate Examination, Education Department Chief Director Nkosinathi Sishi said on Friday. “Leaking is considered the ultimate sin,” Mr Sishi told media in Pretoria as students across the country sat their final exams. “I am unhappy about the […]
MINISTER CONDEMNS ILLEGAL MEDICAL WASTE
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica on Friday promised that action would be taken in an unfolding medical waste scandal. “The Department of Environmental Affairs views these illegal activities in a very serious light and the green scorpions will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that those found transgressing the environmental laws will face […]
CORRECTION, NOT CHAOS
The recession had impacted on the Mineworkers Investment Company’s portfolio, it said yesterday. Releasing its 2008-9 annual review in Joburg, MIC chairman Kuben Pillay said there had been a cyclical correction, rather than a catastrophe. “The abiding impression created by our portfolio is that of solid quality. The market has changed, but underlying quality remains.” […]
TRANSNET TO INVEST MORE IN RAIL
Logistics group Transnet plans to raise annual rail capacity for manganese ore exports to 7 million tons within five years from around 4 million tons this year, it said yesterday. Transnet CEO Chris Wells said more capacity would be allocated to manganese exports from Hotazel in the Northern Cape to Port Elizabeth on the general […]
ZILLE TAKES AIM AT SADTU
Democratic Alliance leader and Western Province Premier Helen Zille on Friday accused the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) of shielding incompetent teachers at the expense of quality education. Ms Zille wrote in her weekly newsletter that the DA would push ahead with plans to make all teachers in the Western Cape sign performance contracts, […]
GUINEA'S WOUNDED PRESIDENT FLOWN TO MOROCCO
Guinea’s president has been flown to Morocco for medical treatment after he was shot during an assassination attempt nearly a year after he seized power in a coup, a government official said Friday. Indicating the possible severity of his wounds, President Moussa “Dadis” Camara left the West African country, which he had never dared do […]
DANES UPSET OVER MUGABE
The world’s heads of state gathering in Denmark for the climate change summit next week probably have little more than the effects of changing weather patterns on the mind. But when Danish Queen Margrethe II has her gala dinner on Thursday night, she and her closest dinner guests will have much to talk about. Purely […]
NAMIBIAN OPPOSITION REJECTS ELECTION RESULTS
Namibian opposition parties threw the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections into doubt on Friday, saying they would not accept the outcome of the vote. Eight opposition parties said in a joint statement they would not accept the results of the elections because the elections contravened Namibia’s electoral laws. Results of the November 27-28 vote released […]