Nine wanted criminals were among 150 people arrested in a police operation in nightclubs and taverns in Johannesburg’s Hillbrow district on Thursday night, police said. Spokesperson Inspector Kriban Naidoo said the nine were wanted for crimes such as robbery, fraud and forgery.
Women who are raped by someone they know are less likely to report and successfully convict their offenders, according to legal experts. This was despite the fact that the law does not distinguish between acquaintance and stranger rape. With stranger rape, if there is good identification, it can be fairly clear-cut,” said Lisa Vetten of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.
The head of the open-source software translation project <i>Translate.org.za</i>, Dwane Bailey, this week called on civil society to help localise software and push proprietary firms to do likewise. He was speaking at the Sangonet ICTs for Civil Society conference in Johannesburg.
South Africa’s third-largest gold miner, Harmony Gold, on Friday announced that it has acquired 44,99-million shares in Western Areas, representing a 29,2% stake in the company. The acquisition was made up by acquiring 37,37-million shares from fund manager Allan Gray and 7,62-million shares on the open market.
With 2006 just a week old, we had seen the future and it looked horrible. Graeme Smith had finally completed his devolution from batsman to blabbermouth. Mickey Arthur seemed hell-bent on expressing himself through tactics he was gleaning from Biggles novels (”Drop that gun, Von Schtalhein! You know only one of us can bat at five to the over and walk out of this submarine pen alive and it isn’t you!”).
A revolutionary restructuring of football is being touted, which could see ”a government representative and a well-respected businessman” being appointed to a new body that would run the affairs of the country’s national teams, the head of the South African Football Association’s technical committee, Sturu Pasiya, told the Mail & Guardian this week.
There was good news for rich people on Thursday, when an annual listing of the world’s billionaires showed there were more of them than ever. The 793 billionaires making the 2006 list published by Forbes magazine is an increase of 102 on last year. And the rich keep getting richer, with their total net worth up 18%.
Elections in Bolivia and Chile signal changes in Latin America: the emergence of women in prominent leadership positions and the leftward shift in political orientation. More significant than this realignment is the rise of women in a traditionally conservative and somewhat machismo political environment.
Prominent members of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) have been implicated in a R268-million fraud being investigated as part of a forensic audit on companies run by the late Brett Kebble. The youth league has been among the most consistent supporters of former deputy president Jacob Zuma and is likely to be hit hard by these claims against its most prominent business members.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>Jacob Zuma’s lawyers spent much of Thursday trying to establish that Zuma’s accuser is a serial rape complainant who has levelled numerous groundless accusations against men in the past. And after four days of testimony, his lawyers told the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> they might be able to apply for the dismissal of the rape charge against Zuma as soon as his accuser has finished giving evidence.