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Six people died on the East Rand after they were thrown from a moving train by suspected security guards targeting scab labour during a protracted strike, police said on Tuesday. Police were alerted late on Monday that ”people were being thrown off the train” between two stations at Benoni, about 20km east of Johannesburg, spokesperson Eugene Opperman said.
Adidas, the German sportswear manufacturer, is suing the tennis Grand Slams and the sport’s governing body in a dispute over their three-stripes trademark, the Wimbledon organisers said on Tuesday. The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTCC) said it would vigorously defend the action, which is set to go to court in May. Papers were served against the club last week, chief executive Ian Ritchie said.
Iraqi prime minister-designate Jawad al-Maliki said on Tuesday that he expected to have his Cabinet line-up ready for approval in two weeks as hectic lobbying began for key ministerial posts. ”I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to Parliament,” Maliki told state television.
”We just tried to keep alive from day to day and not … be beaten too much. People just lived from one day to another and mostly lost hope.” These are the words that Joachim Joseph, a Holocaust survivor, told to the Mail & Guardian Online to describe his early introduction to a world of death, fear and survival at a Dutch concentration camp during World War II.
Iran warned on Tuesday it will sever relations with the United Nations atomic watchdog if sanctions are imposed over its nuclear drive and vowed a military attack would merely send its activities underground. Despite the tough rhetoric, diplomats in Vienna said a high-level Iranian delegation was to hold last-minute talks on Wednesday with the UN atomic agency.
The government must act to protect former Zimbabwean opposition MP Roy Bennett and grant him political asylum in South Africa without delay, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. ”The DA believes that Bennett’s application for asylum provides the South African government with the ideal opportunity to signal to Harare that it believes there is a crisis in Zimbabwe,” DA Chief Whip Douglas Gibson said in a statement.
Vodacom is reducing its 3G data tariffs by 20% from June 1, subject to the approval of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Pieter Uys, Vodacom’s CEO said: "This reduction in tariffs means that Vodacom customers could pay as little as 39c per megabyte — making our superfast mobile internet even more affordable and accessible to everyone."
Waving flags replaced clouds of tear gas as tens of thousands of people in Kathmandu celebrated ”Victory Day” over their king on streets where protesters had fought pitched battles with police. Festivities that started late on Monday after King Gyanendra ended 14 months of absolute rule and restored Parliament, swelled to street parties by mid-morning.
Zanzibar marked Africa Malaria Day on Tuesday with an appeal for more aid money to control and possibly eliminate the tropical disease, which kills more than one-million people a year — many of them young children in Africa. Malaria is spread by mosquitoes and causes wracking pain, fever and, if left untreated, death. It is the leading cause of death of those under the age of five in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).