Video footage showing South Africa’s best-loved rugby players naked, tired, scared and embarrassed violates their right to privacy and dignity and is not for public viewing, the Pretoria High Court ruled on Friday. Judge Pierre Rabie interdicted the organisers of the infamous 2003 Springbok boot camp, Kamp Staaldraad, from publishing or distributing a DVD about the camp.
Two officials from the Regional Centre for Nuclear Studies in Kinshasa have been arrested in a police inquiry over the illegal sale of uranium, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) general prosecutor told Agence France-Presse on Thursday.
Five Europeans and eight locals kidnapped in remote north Ethiopia are ”unharmed and safe” in the hands of Afar separatist rebels holding them over the border in Eritrea, an Afar leader said on Friday. The hostages were seized by an armed band eight days ago during a tour of the Afar region.
Microsoft announced on Thursday its first software licensing deal under a programme mandated by a 2004 European Commission anti-trust ruling. The contract with California-based Quest Software came a week after commission officials accused Microsoft of setting prices too high for technology offered in the Work Group Server Protocol Program.
Sunday Times journalist David Bullard is ”doing very well” and may be moved out of the Milpark Hospital’s intensive-care unit, a hospital spokesperson said on Friday. ”He is doing very well and we are hoping to move him out of intensive care later today,” said Amelda Swartz.
A daily paper that was widely rumoured to have been taken over by Zimbabwe’s secret service has stopped publishing, it emerged on Friday. The Daily Mirror, originally a semi-private paper that was owned by moderate ruling party member and intellectual Ibbo Mandaza has not published an edition since Tuesday.
Airbus plunged into its first-ever operating loss in 2006 and will be in the red again this year, parent company Eads said on Friday in another twist of the crisis at the European plane maker. Analysts at Citigroup investment bank said that prospects for Airbus were now "awful" after management warned about vast cost problems.
Opposition parties have vented their anger at the Correctional Services department’s scathing attack on the National Assembly’s correctional services committee. The committee this week rejected the department’s report on Annanias Mathe’s escape from Pretoria’s C-Max prison.
The Otago Highlanders ran in four tries to two on Friday to beat the Queensland Reds 33-17 and ensure they remained marooned at the bottom of the Super14 rugby competition. After a rough tour to South Africa early in the series, the Highlanders made the most of the home advantage at Carisbrook’s ”House of Pain”.
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) announced on Friday it would be intensifying its campaign to encourage small-business owners to apply for amnesty, and as a result, a number of Sars officials will visit various business premises in Hatfield, Pretoria.