It's going to be a good festive season for Jelly Beanz after they were handed a cheque for R500,000 by Bernhard Maier, a member of Porsche's executive board. It's the
second sizeable donation by Porsche in as many years.
On the agriculture front,
farmers and unions have been urged to negotiate in good faith. Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has urged representatives of Agri-SA and unions to negotiate in good faith for the minimum wage demand for farmworkers. That's all very well, but in the meantime perhaps she can also urge farmworkers to remain peaceful and also not damage crops and equipment.
Come fly with me... if you can afford it!
IATA says airlines will carry 3,6bn passengers by 2016 - a rise of at least 28% in the coming years to hit 3.6 billion in 2016, with China accounting for nearly one-in-four new travellers. Keeping ticket prices reasonable would go some way towards ensuring that that prediction comes true.
Don't come fly with me...
Budgets and mechanical setbacks are hurting SANDF, which is buckling under the strain of crippling budget and mechanical setbacks. We have submarines up on blocks and Gripen fighters flying only a tiny portion of the time they should be flying. So we have all these shiny new weapons platforms... but we can't afford to run them. Brilliant!
Equally brilliant, but in a good way, is our tame motoring editor, Henrie Geyser, who waxes lyrical on the new Honda CR-V, which he reckons has
added market traction. And a lot of attractions... in action, and even when not in action.
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South Africa's military forces are buckling under the strain of crippling budget and mechanical setbacks. 
President Jacob Zuma has concluded a successful working visit to the United Republic of Tanzania, where he led a South African delegation to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extra-Ordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government. 
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will mark the closing ceremony of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children by launching the National Council Against Gender-Based Violence. 
Many of the thousands of workers who went on a two-week strike for better pay last month got only a fraction of their wages. Some of them got nothing. 
The Council for Geoscience has appointed Mxolisi Kota as its chief executive.He will replace Dr Thibedi Ramontja, who joined the Department of Mineral Resources as its director-general in 2011. 
Durban's import capacity will increase sharply once a multi-billion rand project to feed an ever-increasing appetite for goods from overseas gets off the ground. 
The November Business Confidence declined marginally due to an unfavourable domestic and world economic climate, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) said on Thursday. 
Real gross domestic expenditure decelerated from 4.9 % previously to 3% in the third quarter of this year, said the Reserve Bank on Thursday. 
PRETORIA: The South African Air Force (SAAF) has released the names of those who died in the military aircraft crash in the Drakensburg. 
No houses will be demolished when the development of a dug-out port south of Durban gets underway says Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba. 
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has urged representatives of Agri-SA and unions to negotiate in good faith for the minimum wage demand for farmworkers. 
The defence minister must intervene to save the future of aircraft specialists at Denel Aviation, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday (4 December). 
South Africa and Vietnam are to sign a Memorandum of Understanding next week in a bid to address the scourge of rhino poaching in the country. 
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has welcomed the Supreme Court of Appeal's dismissal of the appeal by the Justice Alliance of South Africa and the False Bay Gun Club, where the appellants sought compensation for all firearms voluntarily surrendered for destruction. 
