The matter of MPs choosing to drive rather than fly, at a lesser cost, between Parliament and their constituencies will be examined at a meeting of the multi-party Parliamentary Oversight Authority (POA) next week. view more

Former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi has asked his lawyers to tell "authorities" that his corruption prosecution may have been improper view more

ID leader Patricia de Lille will join the Western Cape government as social development minister, provincial premier Helen Zille said in Cape Town . view more

The three men who "nonchalantly and callously" murdered an elderly Dutch engineer in front of his wife four years ago were given life sentences. view more

A Mangaung taxi driver was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Bloemfontein High Court on Friday for several murders and robberies in and around Bloemfontein in 2009 view more

Analysts agree that Western Cape MEC for community safety Lennit Max has only himself to blame after Helen Zille's Cabinet reshuffle left him out in the dark. view more

Nobody will be allowed to take "inappropriate" pictures at KwaZulu-Natal's annual reed dance, says the provincial arts and culture department. view more

National Police Commissioner General Bheki Cele tells a story of extraordinary shenanigans in tender procedures and rampant outsourcing, which left the police virtually without internal capacity. view more

With the petrol pump attendants still on strike, many garage forecourts were swarming with customers trying to pump petrol into their cars. view more

A surge in unwanted babies may be an unwelcome result of the "gees" felt during the World Cup, which also may lead to an increase in premature babies found in black rubbish bags. view more

The 2010 True Stories of KwaZulu-Natal Competition is open and there is a R10& 8201;000 prize for this year s most compelling tale. Here are the rules and how to enter. view more

LABOUR rights, labour costs, investment and job preservation in a time of an economic downturn are just some of the forces at play in the recent debacle between certain clothing factories and the national bargaining council in Newcastle. view more

A FEW weeks back, one of my colleagues came to me complaining that she had been hauled over the coals at one of the Liberty franchises because she had loaded Skype onto an office computer and was using it to communicate with clients and brokers. view more

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Service station owners and supervisors have started dispensing fuel as the strike called by Cosatu- aligned union Numsa took effect. Pictured is Dave Bure, owner of Basil Bure Convenience Centre in Chief Albert Luthuli (Commercial) Road, who pointed out that the strike was called to maximise inconvenience to the fuel retailing industry. The busy scene at the centre was replicated in varying degrees across the city with some service stations choosing to shut down rather than redirecting already limited manpower resources to the bowsers. view more

THE volunteers who have helped maintain routine hospital functions, and saved patients in the process, are a breed in great demand and short supply. We have praised them before and do so again. view more

UNITED States president Barack Obama has, belatedly, made good on his promise to withdraw his country s troops from Iraq. That brings to an end seven-and-a-half years of combat that was ostensibly designed to do no more than topple Saddam Hussein, but which has brought great misery to Iraq s people, with only a flimsy democracy to show for its efforts. view more

SO we have become a nation of the brave and the heroic again. How sad. view more

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Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) said that interim acting CFO Rudolph Torlage had been appointed as full-time CFO and executive director of the company on Friday. Torlage had been with the company for the past 20 years, heading a number of different divisions. Over the past five years, Trolage had been taking up the role of AMSA company controlling GM, working closely with the company's former CFO, Kobus Verster. view more

A website launched on Friday will help track whether rich countries are keeping a pledge to come up with billion in climate aid for the poor, seen by the UN as a "golden key" to progress in talks on global warming. The United Nations-backed site (www.faststartfinance.org) so far lists cash promises by 6 European donors including Germany and Britain and 27 recipients from Bangladesh to the Marshall Islands. Many of the developing nations have blank entries on the amount of aid received. view more

Domestic and regional airline SA Express would continue with its regional expansion plans, it said on Friday as it announced a 10% increase in its net profit to R250-million for the financial year ended March 31, 2010. The carrier, which is now led by CEO Inati Ntshanga, noted that it had faced a tough operating environment in the 2010 financial year, as low passenger numbers were recorded. view more

Cell C, South Africa's third mobile operator, has launched its evolved high-speed packet access (HSPA+) network in Port Elizabeth, the first city where the network is to be rolled out. The operator was planning to roll out the network, which it had dubbed 4Gs, on a city-by-city basis. view more

Power utility Eskom completed its roll out of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in August, with a record number of eight-million of the energy saving bulbs having been handed out. The campaign went to Gauteng, North West, Limpopo and the Eastern Cape and exchanged the less efficient incandescent bulbs for CFLs free of charge. view more

The Western Cape provincial government was seeking to attract renewable energy developers into the area and wanted to play a greater role in facilitation between municipalities, as well as project developers and national government, to get projects started. The provincial government has set a target of generating 15% of its total energy generation mix from renewable energy by 2014. view more

Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande on Friday called for some amendments and additions in the curriculum of Further Education and Training (FET) colleges to absorb the country's desolate youth into its workforce and address the high unemployment rate in South Africa. "Government has set out a broad goal to develop the economy in a way that responds to the needs of all South Africans, especially the poor, and to achieve this there is an urgent need to contribute to a new economic growth path for our country, in which FET colleges are well positioned to contribute to the acute mid-level skills crisis that exists in South Africa." view more

JSE-listed Jasco, which holds interests in telecommunications and electronics businesses, has made a firm cash and shares takeover offer for fellow JSE-listed information and communications technology (ICT) company Spescom. Jasco noted in a statement to shareholders that the combination of the two companies into one group, which would have a turnover in excess of R1-billion, would create an integrated business that could effectively participate in the growing converged communications environment. view more