Video-game makers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Monday to collaborate about the future of play. The 20th annual Game Developers Conference is the largest gathering of its kind and is dedicated to the ”art, science, and business of games”, according to its organisers at CMP Technology firm.
Minister of Trade and Industry Mandisi Mpahlwa will study a judgement handed down by the Pretoria High Court setting aside his decision to award the national lottery licence to Gidani. Earlier in the day, Pretoria High Court Judge Willie Seriti ruled that the process followed by the National Lotteries Board had been flawed.
The people of Côte d’Ivoire expressed hope on Monday that a home-grown peace deal signed on the weekend would succeed where four years of international efforts to re-unite the war-divided West African state had failed. President Laurent Gbagbo and rebel leader Guillaume Soro signed the deal on Sunday in neighbouring Burkina Faso.
The African Union’s top diplomat took aim at the continent’s long-time rulers on Monday by saying that the time had passed when leaders could expect to cling on to power for decades. ”Everybody knows that the era of ‘presidents for life’ is over,” Alpha Oumar Konare told reporters on the sidelines of a conference on democracy in Africa.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office denied on Monday that it had leaked information relating to an investigation into alleged corruption in the political honours system. The Attorney General won an injunction on Friday prohibiting the BBC from publishing details of an email exchange between two of Blair’s closest aides.
Ernst Middendorp, the amiable, German-born coach of Kaizer Chiefs, was dismissed from his post on Monday. He was clearly stunned and disappointed at the turn of events that emerged after a fateful meeting convened by club chairperson Kaizer Motaung at noon.
The family of convicted Durban businessman Schabir Shaik has been ”lobbying” Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour in an attempt to ”negotiate a deal” reducing his imprisonment term, the Daily News reported on Monday. The newspaper reported that the family had made repeated requests to meet with the minister.
Three teenagers may face a hefty fine if a court decides their festive firecrackers outside an eastern German farm scared the libido right out of an ostrich named Gustav. Rico Gabel, a farmer in Lohsa, north-east of Dresden, is claiming â,¬4Â 900 in damages for the alleged antics by the three youths.
A Limpopo man has fought off a crocodile with a flick knife after the reptile grabbed his leg, media reports said on Monday. Michael Sithole (37) of Sasekani village near Tzaneen was fishing from a rock when the crocodile attacked. ”It wanted to turn me into mincemeat,” he said. The attack came last Tuesday afternoon.
A rapist who intimidated his 14-year-old victim into submission with a punch to the face and then raped her three times the same night was jailed for 17 years by the Cape High Court on Monday. Lungile Deya, now 23 but 19 at the time of the offence, was seemingly shocked at the sentence and covered his face with his hands.