Warders at Westville prison in Durban have until Thursday evening to respond to questions by the Department of Correctional Services following the escape of four armed prisoners last Saturday. The prisoners made a run for it when warders unlocked their cell to give them food on Saturday morning.
The largest consignment of Mandrax powder seized to date worldwide was destroyed outside Johannesburg on Thursday, the National Prosecuting Authority said. ”Today, we are destroying 45 tonnes of what kills our children, of what kills society,” said National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli.
Anti-Aids drugs will be more accessible to prisoners in KwaZulu-Natal after threats of a hunger strike and a letter of demand was sent to prison authorities earlier this week. Currently, if doctors recommend that inmates be given anti-retrovirals (ARVs), they are transported to one of the sites where ARVs are administered.
South Africa’s economy is expected to grow by 4,2% this year amid a domestic spending boom buoyed by low interest and inflation rates, a local think tank said on Thursday. "Bar unforeseen shocks, the South African economy is expected to perform well," said a report by the Stellenbosch-based Bureau for Economic Research.
Security officials in Pakistan were on Thursday questioning a British man arrested on suspicion of playing a key role in the 7/7 bombings in which 56 people died. Haroon Rashid Aswat was carrying a belt packed with explosives, a British passport and a substantial amount of cash when he was seized,
E-mail authentication standards aimed at reducing e-mail spam have been dogged by rivalry between vendors. But fresh hope surrounds an encryption technique that is an open technology and has considerable support. Yahoo and Cisco Systems are the lead vendors behind a new e-mail authentication specification that will be considered as a possible industry standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
The auctioneer’s hammer comes down with a loud rap as a black bust of Adolf Hitler changes hands for €2 400. ”Going for the third and last time,” the auctioneer calls as a lipstick that once belonged to Eva Braun, Hitler’s partner whom he married just before they committed suicide, goes for €1 100.
A decade ago, when the internet bandwagon started to roll, the sense of fear from inside the literary establishment was palpable. With each new technological development, sinister soothsayers would trot out the latest in a series of dark predictions. Ebooks, we were told, would herald the death of paper-based novels.
A strike by about 20 000 Pick ‘n Pay workers in 150 outlets will go ahead on Friday regardless of the outcome of wage negotiations, the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union said on Thursday. Pick ‘n Pay is offering a 7,9% increase per month and the union is demanding 12%.
The JSE Securities Exhange (JSE) continued to break new ground, pressing to a record high for the eleventh day this month on Thursday on continued demand for South African equities. The gains came despite a stronger rand. At 12.04pm, the all-share index was up 0,36% at 14 932,4 after earlier trading as high as 14 953,09.