The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) opposed attempts by some organisations to limit affirmative action to benefit only people born before February 1990. Numsa was responding to a proposal made by the Tuks Afrikaanse Studente to limit affirmative action.
Cricket Australia overhauled on Tuesday the way it sells tickets for the much-anticipated Ashes series against England after criticism from fans that the existing system played into the hands of scalpers. Thousands of angry fans missed out when the first batch of tickets went on sale this month and were left fuming as tickets immediately appeared on internet auction sites at vastly inflated prices.
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Italy’s ”danger man” came through for the Azzurri. Andrea Pirlo, a player identified by Ghana as someone it needed to stop, scored in the 40th minute on Monday, and Vincenzo Iaquinta added a goal in the 83rd to give Italy a 2-0 win over Ghana in Group E at the World Cup.
The recent 50 basis point rate increase in South Africa has had mixed responses across the board, but none more so than among foreigners, who have seemingly started voting with their feet. Brait economist Colen Garrow says non-residents have been sellers of equities for four consecutive days now, and this needs to be monitored.
The South African government on Monday demanded a greater say over the way millions in United States HIV/Aids funding is spent in the country, arguing that giving the money directly to local programmes created a coordination problem. The Bush administration has pledged -billion to combat HIV/Aids over five years in 15 of the world’s worst-hit countries.
A new JavaScript worm has been identified that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in Yahoo! web mail. The worm, JS.Yamanner@m, spreads from person to person when the user opens an e-mail that is originally sent by the worm. The worm then sends itself to the user’s contacts that also use Yahoo! Mail.
The number of PCs in use in South Africa will pass the five-million mark for the first time this year, according to a new study released on Tuesday. Booming sales in PCs means not only more people than ever before are using new PCs, but also that PCs already in the field will remain in use for a longer period.
Gyorgy Ligeti, the Hungarian-born musical pioneer whose use of texture and density marked him out as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century, died in Vienna on Monday after a long illness. He was 83. Although sometimes hailed as the spiritual heir to Bartok, Ligeti’s work encompassed everything from Romanian folk music to avant garde, electronic compositions.
An autopsy of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi concluded that he survived for nearly an hour after the house he was in was targeted by a United States air strike on Wednesday, but died from ”massive internal injuries” caused by the shock wave from the blast.
South Africa this week marks the 30th anniversary of a watershed in its anti-apartheid struggle when hundreds of children in Soweto protesting the forced teaching of Afrikaans died in a brutal police crackdown. The June 16 youth protest began in the black township of Soweto, spreading like wildfire across the country and marking a turning point in the liberation movement.