SABC News
- Correctional services on high alert amid strike
The Department of Correctional Services is on high alert to ensure that service delivery is not compromised during the public sector strike. This follows union calls for essential services workers to join the strike. Acting Commissioner Siphiwe Sokhela has praised correctional officials for their disciplined conduct during the current industrial action. - Samwu barred from joining public servant strike
The City of Joburg has obtained a court interdict barring municipal workers from joining the public service strike. Workers belonging to South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) had indicated they would be joining the strike tomorrow. - Earth tremor strikes Jo'burg
An earth tremor was felt in parts of Johannesburg tonight. It shook the walls in suburbs including Greenside, Melville and Kensington shortly after 21:00. - E Cape residents attends memorial service of butchered family
More than 200 Eastern Cape residents attended a memorial service for the five family members who were butchered to death while asleep at their home in Sigubudu at Ngqeleni.
IOL News
News 24
- Strikers make SA wait a bit more
South Africa will have to wait two more days to find out if public servants will start their fourth week of strikes or accept government's latest wage offer. - Suspect deals rife but I'm innocent - Cele
Police top brass abused a 2006 decision to let the force manage its own properties with carte blanche to award contracts that wasted millions of rands, commissioner General Bheki Cele has revealed. - Lawyers fear Zim deportations
Masses of Zimbabweans will be deported following the lifting of the special dispensation which relaxed conditions for their entry into SA, Lawyers for Human Rights has said. - KP to face Twitter action
Kevin Pietersen is to face disciplinary action over his foul-mouthed Twitter tirade following his dropping from the England squad.
Cape Argus News
- Teachers invade city
ABOUT 200 striking teachers stormed into a city exam venue, demanded pupils and teachers leave and set fire to scripts. - Led by Clifton at R12m a house, city has 7 of 10 most expensive areas
THREE of South Africa's 10 most valuable residential areas are located along Cape Town's coastline, according to a Lightstone properties report released yesterday. - Battle over 'illegal' mansion goes to court
THE two-year battle between the city and "politically connected" local businessman Fred Robertson has reached the courts, where he will fight the council's decision to deny him permission to move into his "illegally" built Bantry |Bay mansion. - De Lille fingers MPs for road travel claims
MPs are milking Parliament for millions by cashing in on claims for road travel rather than taking the cheaper |option of flights, ID leader Patricia de Lille has revealed after a year-long battle to get Parliament to provide her |with the information.
South Africa Info
- Solution to end strike 'must be found'
The government has once again called on negotiators to find a "win-win" solution to end the strike that has halted public schooling and hospital services across South Africa for over two weeks. - SA upbeat on joining BRIC group
South Africa is confident that it could become the newest member of BRIC, a powerful economic coalition of the four fastest-growing developing countries in the world - Brazil, Russia, India and China. - Goodness in the most unlikely places
I've always been fascinated by state hospitals in South Africa - those not-so-glamorous places where not-so-well-paid doctors, nurses and support staff work tirelessly to treat the millions who can't afford private healthcare ... Nicky Rehbock responds to the call to volunteer during the public service strike - and learns a valuable lesson. - World canoe champ signs up for Fish
World champion Max Hoff of Germany has confirmed his entry for South Africa's 2010 Fish River Canoe Marathon. Hoff and teammate Stefan Stiefenhoefer will be bidding to become the first international paddlers to win the famously gruelling two-day race.
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