Blackouts hit parts of the Western Cape on Monday night as Eskom was unable to provide sufficient electricity to meet demand, the Cape Times reported. Its website said on Tuesday the blackouts came after Koeberg’s Unit Two generator was shut down to be refueled and for standard safety upgrades.
Travelling across the Siberian steppe in a manner reserved for reclusive world leaders like North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, or sages like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho is getting a rapturous reception in his specially converted train.
United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are to discuss in Washington this week a programme of troop withdrawals from Iraq that will be much faster and more ambitious than originally planned. Britain is to begin with a handover to Iraqi security forces in Muthanna province in July and the Americans will follow suit in Najaf, the Shia holy city.
The serial killer known as the Son of Sam, whose murder spree brought terror to 1970s New York, is suing his former lawyer under the very law that was introduced to stop him from profiting from his crimes. New York and many other US states introduced ”Son of Sam” laws in response to rumours that David Berkowitz was being offered vast sums of money to write a book.
Ensuring that clients get value for money from outdoor advertising has always been a headache. Now a key innovation in research technology could draw more adspend to outdoor. Graeme Addison looks at how innovators in the media are embracing "creative destruction" of the old by the new.
"For all his apparent loyalty to gold, Brett Kebble was a man of paper, a man dragged by his paper creations into a vortex of debt. How differently things might have turned out had he stuck to gold, a quiet life in the suburbs and a modicum of recognition." In this edited extract from <i>Brett Kebble: The Inside Story</i>, Barry Sergeant takes a look at the slain businessman’s shady empire.
Vusi Khanyile is one of the most unflappable defenders of an unorthodox empowerment strategy you are likely to encounter. The 55-year-old founding MD, now chairperson and CEO of Thebe Investments displays single-mindedness about the course his company has pursued, not just over the past five years, but over the course of about 14 years.
United States authorities found 000 stuffed in a freezer at the home of a US lawmaker under federal investigation for corruption and shady deals in West Africa, court documents showed on Monday. Democratic representative William Jefferson was involved in bribery schemes and suspect business deals in Nigeria and Ghana, according to an FBI affidavit.
”The privacy you’re concerned about is largely an illusion. All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy.” That wasn’t Vodacom boss Alan Knott-Craig comforting his customers about the new kit he will shortly be installing on his network to help government snoops listen in on cellphone calls. It was Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, explaining why concerns about civil liberties should be no obstacle to his proposal that all Americans be required to carry ID cards.
Acts of violence have killed nearly 2 500 people and forced more than 85 000 to flee their homes in Iraq, the United Nations assistance mission in Iraq said on Tuesday in a March-April report on the human rights situation. The fatality count was comprised of death certificates issued by the Baghdad morgue, the report said.