A Durban North couple alleged to have conned investors out of R20-million to R25-million were arrested by the commercial crime unit on Tuesday afternoon. The unit’s Captain Dean Misra said the investigation began a year-and-a-half ago when the Financial Services Board lodged a complaint against the couple.
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union will embark on another strike next week, the union said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, figures gleaned from a reply in Parliament from the minister of provincial and local government show that the average municipal manager in South Africa’s 47 district municipalities earns R642Â 376 a year.
The aid agency Médécins sans Frontières (MSF) on Tuesday partly shut down operations in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) because of ”limitless” violence, leaving more than 100 000 displaced people virtually without aid.
Squatters in Marlboro, Johannesburg, have vowed to fight any new attempts to evict them from the abandoned factories where they have lived in squalor for as long as seven years. They held off the sheriff’s ”Red Ants” workers on Monday with burning barricades at the intersections of roads leading to the area.
Following a day of deadly riots in the streets of Khartoum sparked by the death in a helicopter crash of former rebel leader John Garang, Sudan on Tuesday was plunged back into uncertainty.
The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> is South Africa’s biggest standalone online newspaper, according to internet readership figures for June, released by the Online Publishers Association and ratings company Nielsen//Netratings this week. In June this year, the <i>M&G Online</i> attracted a record 298 819 unique users.
Paris made a bold move in 1977 by building a modern art museum wrapped in large multicoloured pipes in the heart of the city. Now, French art authorities are planning another audacious act: a satellite of the Pompidou Centre that looks like a Chinese peasant’s hat.
An Arizona national guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his blog, an army official said. Leonard Clark (40) was demoted from specialist to private first class and fined 640 said Colonel Bill Buckner, a spokesperson for the Multi-National Corps-Iraq, on Monday.
New statistics involving gun-related cases handled by emergency service Netcare 911 show a decline over recent months, the company said on Tuesday. ”It may well that stronger policing and gun laws in South Africa are having an effect on reducing the number of guns and gun-related violence in the country,” said Netcare 911’s CEO.
Four people were killed when heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides on Tuesday in the north-eastern provinces of Trabzon and Rize on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, the Anatolia news agency reported. Turkey’s lush Black Sea Coast region is prone to seasonal floods and landslides.