Updated: 8am GMT -- 2007/07/24
Eastern Cape
EL restaurant boss sacks 15 as minimum wage law bites
Another warns of legal action to stop massive job cuts by ‘unfair’ legislation By CHRIS BATHEMBU EAST London restaurant owners have warned that the newly-introduced minimum wage policy for the hospitality industry will lead to massive job...
Fort Glamorgan graves to be exhumed
BURIED PAST: Thembinkosi Siboko and Mary Patrick exhume the first grave at Fort Glamorgan Prison yesterday. Picture: MASI LOSI By LUYANDA MAKAPELA Crime Reporter A TEAM of top archaeologists have jetted into East London this week to exhume ...
What the new legislation says:
l Employers with 10 or less workers should pay R1480 per month, R341,60 per week and R7,59 per hour. l Employers with more than 10 workers must pay R1650 per month, R380,80 per week and R8,46 per hour. l Workers who currently earn more than th...
Haul out the woollies – again
EXTREME HEAT: Emma-Jane Boy from Just Models cools off at Nahoon Beach during yesterday’s heatwave. Picture: NIGEL LOUW THE Eastern Cape yesterday sweltered in the grip of berg wind conditions which saw the mercury rocket to 33°C in East London...
MY KINDA TOWN | Ngcobo
Andiswa Kweba – There’s so much one can do ANDISWA Kweba is currently running a multi-million-rand store, which has just won her the 2007 Spar Eastern Cape Store of the Year Award. If you could give up your current job and become a full-time ac...
EL pair in Top 100 Pop Idols contestants
OVER THE MOON: Shakira Naidoo, who is in the Top 100 of the Pop Idols contest. Picture: ALAN EASON Now they’re off to Joburg for the next round of auditions By CHRIS BATHEMBU AN EAST London car sales executive is one of two East Lon...
Discovery Health ‘bullying’ them, claim doctors
Famcare letter asks patients to pay upfront By NTANDO MAKHUBU Health Reporter DISCOVERY Health has come under fire from a group of East London doctors who accused the scheme of “bully boy” tactics in setting medical aid rates and forc...
New twist in Fort Jackson heist trial
CAMERA SHY: Members of a suspected heist gang hide from media attention yesterday in the Mdantsane Regional Court. They are facing a number of charges, including planning an armed robbery in East London. Picture: MICHAEL PINYANA Conspiracy to...
Property boom in Gonubie and Beacon Bay
‘These two areas will merge, farms in between will become a suburb’ By ROUX VAN ZYL Business Editor EAST LONDON is creeping eastwards as the city’s economic growth sucks more residential property developments into Gonubie and Beacon Ba...
Three rapes, one arrest
By LUYANDA MAKAPELA Crime Reporter POLICE have arrested a 22-year-old suspect after an elderly woman was raped in Dimbaza on Saturday night, allegedly for the second time by the same suspect, in two brutal rapes in the township over the weekend. ...
Dispatch Children’s Fund
DAILY Dispatch Children’s Fund donations received as at July 2007: Previously acknowledged – R54432,94 Fruit & Veg City – R240 Amalinda Spar – R240 EL Bowling Club – R1631,80 Total – R56544,74 Eastern Cape &n...
