She considers herself lucky to be alive, says Patricia Mbiza, who was seriously wounded in last week’s boardroom shooting in Pretoria. The Pretoria News on Monday quoted her as saying: ”He wanted to kill us, and he killed my colleagues and friends.” Mbiza recounted how a colleague at a Sunnyside engineering firm, Happy Nkosi, pulled out a firearm at a board meeting on Friday.
Just when you think every idea under the blogging sun has been thought of, someone comes along with a simple, yet genius, plan to get people creatively interacting. Renaud Dehareng (30), of Brussels, Belgium, works in municipal social assistance by day, but when he has free time he runs the strange, quirky blog called <i>Sho()tmyblog.blogspot.com</i>.
Three Filipino energy industry workers kidnapped in Nigeria have been freed and handed over to Philippine embassy officials, the foreign department said on Monday. Cornelio Fallaria (51), Daniel Monteagudo (49) and Alberto Torres (50) were turned over to embassy officials, Foreign Undersecretary Esteban Conejos told reporters.
South Africa is sure to break into the top 10 international conference destinations by 2010, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Monday. Speaking at the national conference of the Southern African Association for the Conference Industry, he said conferencing and its allied products continue to thrive.
Zimbabwe has splashed -million (about R24-million) on buying 320 luxury vehicles for middle-ranking police officers, Zim Online reported on Monday. It quoted ”authoritative” sources as saying the government was planning to spend another 10-million (about R60-million) on cars for military and secret-service officers.
A Randfontein butcher and two employees were locked in a freezer in an armed robbery on Monday, West Rand police said. Inspector Solomon Sibiya said Fat Belly butchery had just opened when three armed men entered. The three men locked the owner and two employees in a freezer at the back of the shop.
Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army on Monday said it will resume peace talks with the government, but sought a break to mourn its third-in-command, killed by the army over the weekend, officials said. The government welcomed the decision by the rebels, who last Wednesday stormed out of the talks being held in southern Sudan.
The JSE was in positive territory just before midday on Monday as the market discounted a positive opening in the United States. London-listed resources group Anglo American led the way, despite higher commodity prices. By 11.55am, the all-share and all-share industrial indices added 0,8% and 0,91% respectively.
The Beijing Olympics will lead to a boom in sales of flat-screen televisions in China, with one in four televisions sold in 2008 either a liquid-crystal display (LCD) or plasma, a Japanese study said on Monday. Only 10% of the 42-million colour televisions sold in China last year was an LCD or plasma, said a study by the economic research firm Fuji Keizai.
All-rounder Mashrafee Mortaza was the star for Bangladesh as they beat Kenya by two wickets on Sunday to win the one-day series 2-0. Having taken 3-53 in the Kenyan innings, the stylish left-hander returned to hit the winning runs that helped Bangladesh hold off a resurgent Kenyan side buoyed by a tight pace-bowling attack.