Connie Molusi, the CEO of Johncom, has been suspended with immediate effect on full pay, pending the outcome of a hearing to consider his performance, to be convened in due course, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. "The executive directors … and divisional CEOs … are managing the affairs of the group," the statement added.
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Gauteng minister of finance Paul Mashatile has declared — but now disowns — what amounts to a cool R50-million stake in a top IT company. If Mashatile’s shareholding were confirmed, he would be saddled with a serious conflict of interests: The company, Business Connexion, has contracts with a government agency, the Gauteng Shared Service Centre, which answers to Mashatile.
United Nations officials travelled to Mogadishu on Monday for their first talks with Somali Islamists, who wrested control of the Somali capital last month. The UN team flew into Mogadishu from Kenya under heavy security and inspected several areas of city, which has been under Islamist control since June 5 when they routed the warlords after four months of bloody clashes.
The White House on Monday dismissed North Korea’s threat of a nuclear strike in the event of United States attack as ”deeply hypothetical” and urged Pyongyang to rejoin nuclear negotiations. North Korea vowed on Monday to counter any strike by the US with its ”mighty nuclear deterrent”, accusing Washington of raising tension on the Korean peninsula.
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Delaying Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial is ”not fair,” Schabir Shaik said on Monday. Shaik, the man described by Judge Hilary Squires last July as having had a ”generally corrupt relationship” with Zuma, said: ”I read it in the weekend papers. I don’t think it’s fair, but it really is up to Zuma and his team to make that call.”
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Germany midfielder Torsten Frings has been suspended for Tuesday’s World Cup semifinal against Italy, world soccer governing body Fifa said on Monday. Frings was barred after the Fifa disciplinary committee viewed TV pictures, which show him hitting an Argentinian player in the face.
Australian Robbie McEwen won a thrilling bunch sprint to claim the second stage of the Tour de France here Monday over 228,5km of racing between Obernai and Esch-sur-Alzette. Norway’s Thor Hushovd, who came in third on the stage behind world champion Tom Boonen of Belgium, regained the leader’s yellow jersey from American George Hincapie, who drops to fourth overall.
A University of Cape Town academic has been temporarily suspended from his research duties and his laboratory closed after an international journal associated him with a herbal tonic touted as an HIV/Aids treatment. ”The University of Cape Town is aware of the report … We regard the allegations in the report in a very serious light,” said spokesperson Skye Grove on Monday.
The controversy surrounding South Africa’s biggest arms-acquisition deal has resurfaced. That prosecutors in Düsseldorf at the weekend confirmed a probe into allegations that a German ship-building consortium supplying four Corvettes to the South African navy, handed over bribes, proves rather embarrassing and comes at a bad time for the two nations.