A United States online calendar company has been forced to put itself up for sale on eBay after the internet giant Google moved into its space with a rival product. The demise of Kiko.com, which has gone up for sale with a reserve price of 999, has raised questions about the growing threat posed by ”Google-creep”.
When the curtain comes down on the storied career of Andre Agassi at the United States Open, the sport will lose one of its most enigmatic figures. The 36-year-old Las Vegas native no longer has the big hair or the big forehand but he can still sell tickets like a rock star.
New Zealand has a dark secret, an epidemic of domestic violence which has brought to life the wrenching story of abuse in a dysfunctional Maori family depicted in the landmark movie Once Were Warriors. The abuse problem has cast a shadow over a country more popularly seen as a charming and scenic backwater.
All Blacks coach Graham Henry on Tuesday made eleven changes to his team to take on the Springboks in their Tri-Nations Test in Pretoria on Saturday. There is a total overhaul of the reigning Tri-Nations champions team, with 10 new faces making it into the starting line-up and one positional change from the team that beat Australia last week.
Opposition parties on Tuesday decried the appointment of Brigadier General Ernest Zwane as the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) director of prosecutions. ”The decision by the SANDF to appoint convicted criminal Brigadier General Ernest Zwane as the new director of prosecutions is disgraceful,” Democratic Alliance spokesperson Roy Jankielsohn said.
Forty-three members of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), including the organisation’s chairperson Zackie Achmat, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges of trespassing. The appearance follows last week’s TAC occupation of a provincial government building in Cape Town.
In a major snub to the international maths community, one of the winners of the discipline’s most coveted prize has refused the award. The enigmatic and reclusive mathematician Grigory ”Grisha” Perelman has turned down a Fields medal — an award many consider the Nobel Prize of maths.
Former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni, due to report to Pollsmoor prison by Thursday, will be treated like any other prisoner and be subjected to a strip search and have his fingerprints taken. ”We don’t have a category of more important or less important inmates,” Correctional Services ministerial spokesperson Luphumzo Kebeni said on Tuesday.
The South African government has been told that progress has been very slow in achieving black economic empowerment (BEE) in South African business, with government itself contributing little in terms of procurement from black business. This emerged in a meeting between President Thabo Mbeki and his economic cluster ministers on Tuesday.
The United Democratic Movement (UDM) says it has instructed its legal team to take action against public representatives ”who owe the party” following their defection to other parties. Party spokesperson Star Khonco said on Tuesday that the UDM has already ”won its case” against MP Martin Stephens, who crossed the floor to the Democratic Alliance.