Online retailer Amazon.com has opened a software development centre in Cape Town, a statement issued by the company said on Tuesday. The centre will create innovative web services and help software developers build innovative applications using Amazon technology.
South Africa’s largest retail banking group, Absa, is to reward more than 700 long-term customers who have been with the bank for 50 years or longer. The bank says the rewards are part of the bank’s efforts aimed at keeping customers satisfied.
Global brewing giant SABMiller on Tuesday announced a major investment in Latin America through a transaction with the Santo Domingo Group in which SABMiller will obtain a controlling interest in Bavaria South America. The transaction will be effected by way of a merger. Shares in SABMiller climbed 3,3% early on Tuesday.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are set to return to the big screen after a 14-year break in a lavish new computer-generated movie, the industry press said Monday. The new movie that will feature state-of-the-art computer-generated animation (CGI) is set for release in early 2007, industry bible Daily Variety said.
A Durban schoolgirl has approached the Equality Court to fight possible disciplinary action for wearing a nose stud, media reports said on Tuesday. The grade-11 pupil at Durban Girls’ High School claimed she was being unfairly discriminated against because of her cultural identity.
”When President Robert Mugabe ploughs up neighbourhoods that coincidentally voted against him, he should be criticised,” former United States president Bill Clinton told guests at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg on Monday.
The alleged abductor and murderer of Leigh Matthews (21) will not testify at his trial or call a single witness in his defence, media reports said on Tuesday. The decision comes in spite of the 47 witnesses who might testify for the state against Donovan Moodley (24).
The Israeli government on Monday night appeared to give ground to thousands of anti-disengagement protesters by allowing them to continue an illegal march to the Gaza settlements. Thousands of police officers and soldiers were deployed to block the marchers’ way but after a two-hour standoff on Monday night, the police and army pulled back.
A historic lawsuit in the Nairobi High Court, the first time that a Kenyan court will have heard a case relating to alleged discrimination against someone living with Aids, recently galvanised East African Aids activists. Previously fractious organisations representing HIV-positive Kenyans, united to demonstrate in the streets and to declare a "new militancy".
Robben Island has not been declared a South African national heritage site because its managers have failed to meet statutory requirements.