Angry protesters from various informal settlements in Ekurhuleni urgently demanded provincial government attention on Monday afternoon, saying they had been subject to illegal evictions. Riot police used shields and batons to push the crowd that packed Simmonds Street in the Johannesburg city centre, where they handed over a memorandum.
The good news for the Springboks is that JP Pietersen, Akona Ndungane and Jaque Fourie are all back in the squad for Saturday’s second Test against England at Loftus. The bulk of the squad, with the exception of the 15 who played against England last Saturday, were training at St Stithians in Randburg on Monday afternoon.
CNN will give away access to an online video service that now costs (about R177) a year, becoming the latest news organisation to revamp its revenue model on the web. Spokesperson Jennifer Martin said the change, effective July 1, reflects lower costs associated with delivering bandwidth-intensive video.
Computer-game makers and industry analysts agree that the Wii is trouncing rival video-game consoles due to a captivating blend of ease, fun, family, friends and affordability. Demand for Wii consoles has outpaced supply since they debuted in November last year.
The multiparty committee that will decide whether Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool misled the legislature plans to hold open hearings ”as soon as possible”, its chairperson said on Monday. Provincial deputy speaker Yousuf Gabru, who is chairing the six-person committee, said the committee sees its work as ”quite important”.
A blast ripped through a crowd in Ethiopia’s volatile Somali region on Monday, killing at least five people and setting off a stampede that saw up to six more die, according to witnesses and aid-workers. The Ethiopian government quickly blamed the attack on the Ogaden National Liberation Movement, separatist rebels who have been increasingly active in the remote east.
McLaren claim they are confident an investigation into their team tactics in Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix will clear them of breaking the rules. Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, launched an inquiry on Monday after Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton posted a processional 1-2 for McLaren without ever fighting each other for the lead.
At least 29 people were killed over the weekend by Rwandan rebels wielding machetes, sticks and hammers who descended on a village in far eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a United Nations official said. The bodies of 17 villagers killed in their sleep were recovered on Sunday.
One person was killed and seven people wounded in a shooting at the Bree Street taxi rank in central Johannesburg on Monday, police said. Superintendent Lungelo Dlamini said shots were fired between police and unknown men at about lunchtime. The reason was not immediately clear.
So, anyway, I was looking through various websites on the internet, trying to find some concrete information for a talk I had been invited to present on the occasion of the forty-fourth anniversary of Africa Day, May 25 2007. The sacred anniversary had originally been called ”Africa Freedom Day”, when it was dedicated as such at the launch of the then brand-new Organisation of African Unity in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on that date in 1963.