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/ 23 October 2007
British police launched a website on Tuesday to warn children as young as eight about the dangers of putting their personal details on social networking sites such as MySpace and Bebo. The site has an online café where children can learn about the dangers of revealing too much about themselves online.
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/ 23 October 2007
The Green Scorpions have shut down ArcelorMittal operations at its Vaal waste site over its dumping of hazardous waste and air and water pollution, it was announced on Tuesday. The move followed numerous ”futile attempts” at getting the steel company to clean up its act, Gauteng’s department of agriculture, conservation and environment said in a statement.
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/ 23 October 2007
Pakistan produced disciplined cricket to upstage South Africa by six wickets in the third day-night international in Faisalabad on Tuesday, to take a 2-1 lead in the series. Rao Iftikhar made a career-best 3-33 and leg-spinner Shahid Afridi 3-37 to restrict the tourists to 197 all out.
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/ 23 October 2007
The Gauteng economy is slowing down as several industries experience a drop in business-activity levels, said the Gauteng Business Barometer (GBB). Spokesperson Mike Schüssler said the GBB for September dipped by 7% to 140 index points when compared with the same month last year.
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/ 23 October 2007
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African National Congress (ANC) chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota is being one-sided in calling for a clampdown on T-shirts showing support for ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma while defending T-shirts bearing President Thabo Mbeki’s image, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 October 2007
Three men who, as teenagers, beat to death a homeless man sleeping on church premises two years ago, saw vagrants as a threat to their neighbourhood, the Bellville Regional Court heard on Tuesday. Criminologist Dr Irma Labuschagne was testifying on behalf of the men who are to be sentenced on a charge of culpable homicide.
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/ 23 October 2007
The trial of actuary Fred van der Vyver, accused of murdering his student girlfriend Inge Lotz, appears to be drawing to a close. Prosecutor Carine Theunissen told the Cape High Court on Tuesday she would finish her cross-examination of Van der Vyver on Wednesday morning.
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/ 23 October 2007
South African investors remain confident about one-year returns on the local equity market despite recent increases in interest rates and higher fuel and food prices, a new survey showed on Tuesday. The inaugural investor confidence index showed investors believed Johannesburg stocks would rise steadily in the short term.
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/ 23 October 2007
United States sportswear giant Nike ventured further into the British football market on Tuesday after agreeing to buy rival Umbro, maker of the England soccer strip, for $582-million. The cash bid, worth 195 pence per Umbro share, values the British group at £285-million, a joint statement said.
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/ 23 October 2007
KwaZulu-Natal police have arrested a fifth suspect for the murder of historian David Rattray. Police spokesperson Superintendent Muzi Mngomezulu said on Tuesday he could confirm that a fifth suspect had been arrested and was expected to appear in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Wednesday.