CareerJunction, an online recruitment service in South Africa, has teamed up with Tiscali UK and i2i Services to provide a job listing board for the United Kingdom market, making it one of the largest job boards in the UK.
Hijacker and murderer William Kekana could have been stopped in his tracks six years ago if police had bothered to perform basic forensic work during his arrest, his policeman father believes. Kekana (20) was sentenced to life imprisonment and 35 years by the Pretoria High Court two weeks ago after being convicted of hijacking and killing Jacobus Geldenhuys.
A judge sentenced a South African man to 12 months in prison on Thursday for attempting to smuggle cocaine out of Suriname last year. Abraham Nkosi (37) from Cape Town, was arrested in December after he brought two computers to a courier company for shipment to Ireland, authorities said. Police said they found 2,3kg of cocaine hidden in the computers.
British police will almost certainly be given access in the near future to United States intelligence databases containing DNA samples, fingerprints and digital images of thousands of foreign nationals seized around the world by the US as terror suspects.
A Johannesburg civil engineering consulting company is suing the Gauteng department of transport and public works for R6-million in the Equality Court, arguing that the department still favours white over black firms. The case is one of the first in which a provincial government is being sued by a black company for not implementing an affirmative procurement policy.
Referees implicated in soccer’s match-fixing scandal are trying to turn state witness to escape prosecution. And new evidence suggests that the South African Football Association (Safa) did not thoroughly investigate allegations of match-fixing dating back to 1999.
A new probe into the finances of the Mpumalanga Department of Public Works, Roads and Transport has found that the department is riddled with rot. Two probes last year — one by the provincial auditor general and the other by the provincial treasury — also uncovered numerous examples of mismanagement and wasteful expenditure.
The British National Party (BNP), the premier neo-fascist organisation in the United Kingdom, is reeling from worse-than-expected results in local elections last week — not least in London, where the campaign was coordinated by some- time South African Arthur Kemp. Forty-one-year-old Kemp’s high point of notoriety came from his role in the assassination of Chris Hani in 1993.
The Israeli army plans to have an immense ditch dug to stop Palestinians smuggling weapons and cigarettes from Egypt into the Gaza Strip using tunnels in the border town of Rafah. The defence ministry invited companies on Thursday to bid for the contract. The ditch will be between 15 and 25 metres deep and stretch for about 3,2km.
BMW has finally ended months of rumour and speculation by releasing pictures and some specifications of their first real superbike. The K1200 S will deliver over 120 kW, so it should be a real flyer.