Johannesburg attorney Julian Bartlett will get back R1,86-million of about R3-million he lost in a confidence trick involving an offshore sale of gold bullion, the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday. Bartlett was tricked into paying R3,1-million in 1999 into the trust account of fellow attorneys Hirschowitz and Flionis, who were not part of the scam.
Real Madrid’s three-time World Player of the Year Ronaldo couldn’t hide his relief after finally finding the net following 36 barren days in which the Spanish giants have gone into a downward spiral. Ronaldo’s injury-time goal salvaged a point in Wednesday’s 1-1 draw at Real Zaragoza, the team which humiliated Real 6-1 in the Spanish Cup last month.
Space tourism has caught the imagination of United States business leaders, some of whom already have plans to serve what they say may be a multibillion-dollar industry in a couple of decades. ”Space tourism will be a significant portion of the overall travel and tourism industry over the next 20 to 25 years,” said Eric Anderson, chief executive of Space Adventures.
After more than three-quarters of a century working for public transit agencies, a bus maintenance worker will retire on Tuesday on his 100th birthday. For decades, Arthur Winston reported to work at a bus yard at the crack of dawn. By 6am he would be supervising a crew of workers as they cleaned and refueled the region’s bus fleet.
The head of the United Nations’s probe into illegal kickbacks paid to Iraq under the oil-for-food programme found the Australian government initially uncooperative and reticent to provide information. The Australian panel examining the discredited programme was told that Foreign Minister Alexander Downer had at first prevented the UN from interviewing government officials over the scandal.
Treating mothers for depression can mean long-term happiness for their children, according to a study published on Tuesday. Depression is known to be passed on genetically, but it can also be affected by the environment in which a child is raised, according to authors of an article published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
South Africa recorded its largest recorded capital inflow in 2005, the South African Reserve Bank said in its quarterly bulletin released on Thursday. ”Sound macroeconomic policies in South Africa and continued positive investor sentiment towards emerging markets in general gave rise to sizeable capital inflows in the country in 2005,” the bank said.
The JSE was firmer in noon trade on Thursday helped by positive US markets overnight. Strength in heavyweight resources stocks in London played a major role in the bourse’s strength. By 12.06pm, the all share index added 0,52%. Resources rallied 0,89% and the platinum mining index inched up 0,09%, but the gold mining index lost 0,77%.
How to spend the night in a protest rally and not freeze, or bring food to protestors and not be molested by the police? Ask those Belarussian websites not yet shut down by the authorities.
Binyamin Netanyahu, leader of the hawkish Likud Party, hopes to complete his political rehabilitation by returning to the prime minister’s office and resuming a post the Israeli public evicted him from in the May 1999 elections. As Likud leader, Netanyahu has been campaigning that he represents the ”true” Likud values.