Midday Edition: Delays in Mandela grandson rape case
DELAYS IN MANDELA RAPE CASE - A 24-year old grandson of former President Nelson Mandela is expected to bring a bail application at 2pm on Friday, in a case where he's been charged with the alleged rape of a 15 year old girl at a restaurant in Johannesburg, two weeks ago.
He has been in police custody for the past week.
Reporter Karabo Ngoepe reports from the Johannesburg Regional Court, where a court gallery has been packed to capacity since early this morning .....
STEEL INDUSTRY JOB LOSSES - Labour and business representatives are meeting with government behind closed doors in Pretoria over what has been described as a potential bloodbath of job losses in the steel industry.
Arcelor Mittal is considering the closure of its plant in Vereeniging and other major companies such as Evraz Highveld Steel in Mpumalanga and the Scaw Metals Group are intending to retrench thousands of workers.
Castro Ngobese, from the metal workers union Numsa, warns that up to 30 000 jobs could be lost in the coming months...
EFF MINE MARCH - The embattled mining industry is also at the top of the agenda in Limpopo, where EFF leader Julius Malema is leading a march of 11 kilometres from Steelpoort to the Modikwa Mine.
They are angry at local mines for not employing local residents.
Maidi Monareng is there...
SANTA CLAUS GOES BANKRUPT - It's not the news we want to hear four months before Christmas, but Santa Claus is broke and has filed for bankruptcy in Finland.
Or, at least, a popular tourist attraction on the Arctic Circle has done so.
Dianordia is the company that runs Santa's office in Finnish Lapland that sees thounsands of toursits from 100 different nationalities visiting the Santa Claus Village every year.
However, Santa's office says the economic downturn has led to a drop in tourism and the taxman doesn't give grants to even Santa - they owe more than R2 million.
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