Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated a landmark agreement by Africa’s biggest trade bloc on Wednesday with a favourite pastime — attacking the West. ”Where does Europe get all the cotton it wears and the tea the British call their own — English tea? I want to know in which part of Britain tea is grown and to this day I have not found it,” he said.
A group of United Nations human rights experts on Wednesday began examining the situation in the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, under the terms of a resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Council, a UN source said. The group is due to meet Sudanese government representatives on Thursday.
Schabir Shaik’s last-ditch attempt to escape a 15-year prison term for corruption and fraud began on Wednesday with a bid to convince the Constitutional Court that he was mistried. Sitting in the front row of the packed gallery behind Schabir’s four counsel were his brothers, Mo and Yunis.
Much of South Africa can expect another freezing night on Wednesday, the South African Weather Service said as the costs of this week’s cold spell mounted. At least 22 people have died of cold in different parts of the country this week, 15 of them in the Eastern Cape.
Government departments are to be connected to a single, faster, more efficient computer network costing R454-million, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Wednesday. The country’s second national telecommunications operator, Neotel, was awarded a five-year contract.
The United States House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday to combat the criminal use of internet spyware and other scams aimed at stealing personal information from computer users. Spyware, said the Bill’s Democratic sponsor, Representative Zoe Lofgren, ”is one of the biggest threats to consumers on the internet”.
MySpace is yielding to demands by American state justice officials that it expose sexual predators that may be prowling the youth-oriented social networking website. The move ends a stand-off between MySpace and top prosecutors from eight American states.
Salesforce.com’s stock price climbed by more than 4% on Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with internet search leader Google in a double-barrelled attack on Microsoft. A formal announcement between the two companies is expected in early June.
Ajax Cape Town winger Bryce Moon is fit, ready and very excited to take on Mamelodi Sundowns in the Absa Cup final on Saturday in Durban. The Pietermaritzburg-born player is hoping to put in a match-winning performance for his family and friends who will be at the match, and especially for the Bafana Bafana selectors.
Iran persists in defying United Nations demands to stop enriching uranium and is expanding the work, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report on Wednesday that could open the door to new sanctions against Tehran. "Iran has not suspended its enrichment-related activities," the International Atomic Energy Agency said.