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/ 23 February 2008
A federal judge has said consumers may go ahead with a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over the way it advertised computers loaded with Windows XP as capable of running the Vista operating system. The lawsuit said Microsoft’s labelling of some PCs as ”Windows Vista Capable” was misleading.
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/ 23 February 2008
Gold production for the current third quarter is forecast to decline by between 20% and 25% against the December quarter, Gold Fields said on Monday. This was ”as a result of the total suspension of production for one full week due to power constraints, continued power rationing, and the seasonal impact of the Christmas break”.
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/ 23 February 2008
Zimbabwe can address its energy shortfalls if it harnesses other forms of power — such as solar energy — to complement hydro and thermal electricity which is currently in short supply, the government mouthpiece Herald reported on Monday.
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/ 23 February 2008
Four Cape Town metro police officers were arrested on Friday afternoon for assault and attempted murder, police said. A South African Police Service spokesperson said five metro police officers were spotted by Lavender Hills residents assaulting and firing shots at an unknown man.
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/ 23 February 2008
South Africa Women have made it to next year’s International Cricket Council Women’s World Cup after hammering Ireland Women by seven wickets in the semifinals of the World Cup qualifier tournament in Stellenbosch. Ireland Women were skittled for 107 in 47.4 overs as the South African bowlers gave them no breathing space.
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/ 22 February 2008
A domestic passenger plane carrying 46 people was ”practically pulverised” when it crashed into Venezuela’s western Andes Mountains overnight and the chances of finding survivors was nil, officials said on Friday. ”The plane was practically pulverised and [crashed] head-on,” a fire-services officer said.
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/ 22 February 2008
”I saw nothing wrong,” said African National Congress president Jacob Zuma when asked whether he approved of the exclusion of white journalists from an address at the Forum of Black Journalists (FBJ) on Friday. Zuma was addressing journalists after the FBJ re-launch held at the Sandton Sun hotel in Johannesburg.
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/ 22 February 2008
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille on Friday dismissed as ”posturing” Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool’s threat to sue the DA over recent land invasions in Delft. ”A threat to sue the DA for allegedly encouraging land invasions in Delft is just posturing,” she said in a statement.
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/ 22 February 2008
South Africa’s privately owned Samancor Chrome, the world’s second-biggest producer of ferrochrome, said on Friday it had shut a furnace at its plant after a worker was killed in an explosion on Sunday. Sunel Pretorius, a spokesperson at Samancor, said she could not yet say how much output had been affected by the closure of the furnace.
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/ 22 February 2008
Controversial businessman Charles Modise was denied bail in the Kimberly Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Modise is being investigated by the Scorpions and faces various charges, including fraud, forgery and corruption in the Northern Cape. Magistrate Andre Williams postponed the matter to July 9 for further investigations.