Ghanaians were on Tuesday torn between excitement and apprehension over a major oil find in the West African nation, with some viewing it as a boon and others fearing it could turn out to be a curse. British oil and gas company Tullow Oil on Monday announced the discovery of up to 600-million barrels of oil off Ghana’s coast.
The chief architect of Sony’s PlayStation game console stepped down on Tuesday as the Japanese company struggles to defend its dominance in the video-game industry and revive its reputation as an electronics pioneer. Ken Kutaragi (56) stepped down as Sony Computer Entertainment’s chairperson and group chief executive.
The youngest of the five baby Jordan-Leigh Norton killers was ”more interested in immediate pleasures than his future”, the Cape High Court heard on Tuesday. Probation officer Joel Ntuli told the court Bonginkosi Sigenu (18) came from a poor background and his late father had declined to buy him fancy clothing.
The African National Congress (ANC) was not worried about differences in economic policy expressed by its alliance partners, the party said at a briefing in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The party’s economic policy has been criticised by its alliance partners, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party.
The Freedom Front Plus Youth (FF+) has accused the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) of being ”softies” after the ANCYL failed to take part in a live television debate on affirmative action. ”Clearly the organisation is not prepared or does not have the courage to defend their view on affirmative action …,” said FF+ leader Cornelius Jansen van Rensburg.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Monday lodged papers in the Durban High Court opposing the eThekwini municipality’s controversial plan to rename Durban’s streets and some of its landmark buildings. The DA is asking the court to prevent the municipality from proceeding with phase two of the renaming process and to have the first phase reversed.
Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive. Either way, your employer can now tunnel into your crippled machine remotely by communicating directly with the chips inside it, allowing authorised managers to power up and repair turned-off PCs at virtually any time.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter on Tuesday expressed his full confidence in South Africa’s preparations for the 2010 Soccer World Cup. ”I am a happy Fifa president,” he told journalists after meeting President Thabo Mbeki at Tuynhuys. ”Everything is on track.”
Faced with concerns by European online privacy advocates, Google is promising to obscure information about people’s internet searches after only 18 months. Google’s global privacy counsel revealed late on Monday the Mountain View, California, firm’s policy change in a letter to the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party in Belgium.
The Lesotho government will relax the restrictions of the curfew it imposed after a spate of attacks on Cabinet ministers, Prime Minister Phakalitha Mosisili said on Tuesday. Briefing the media in Cape Town after meeting South African President Thabo Mbeki at Tuynhuys, Mosisili said the curfew, which was imposed on Saturday, will now be modified.