"Kill and go": this is the nickname that has been given to Nigeria’s mobile police unit. Its members have an alleged propensity to gun down people at the slightest provocation, then walk away unconcerned. The reputation of other police units is scarcely better. Nigerians often hear reports of people shot dead either by the mobile or regular police.
Industry analysts expect Google to provide a self-appraisal when the Mountain View-based company updates the prospectus for its initial public offering with its second quarter results. Google’s second quarter ended on June 30, meaning the update could come as early as this week.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was flat in noon trade on Tuesday as a slightly softer rand offset the negative effect of poor performances of heavyweight dual-listed stocks offshore. With no fresh news to drive the market, volumes were light. By 11.58am, the all-share and all-share industrial indices were 0,11% and 0,14% firmer respectively.
A child was burnt to death when about 40 shacks caught fire at George Goch near central Johannesburg on Monday night. Johannesburg Emergency Services spokesperson Malcolm Midgely said another child was treated for minor burns. Emergency services brought the blaze under control.
The proposed system of electronic prisoner tagging has been put in abeyance by South Africa’s Department of Correctional Services "as one of its long-term projects", says Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour. But the Democratic Alliance says this is code for the end of the programme.
The empowerment deal between Standard Bank and two leading black entrepreneurs was better than those of Sanlam and Absa earlier this year, the Democratic Alliance said on Monday. Sanlam signed an empowerment deal with Patrice Motsepe, the chairperson of mining company ARMGold, valued at about R2-billion earlier.
Nearly R20-million changed hands at Limpopo Tourism and Parks Boards’ first game auction at the weekend, according to a statement issued on Monday. The ”catalogue auction” in Polokwane, on Saturday, saw the sale of 3 600 head of antelope from 15 of Limpopo’s 17 provincial parks, raking in R19,5-million.
If government was allowed to procrastinate in assisting 69 alleged mercenaries in Zimbabwe they could be dead and buried by the time help arrived, the Constitutional Court was told on Monday. Advocate Wim Trengove, acting on behalf of the Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, told the court that the South African government had a duty to protect the lives of its citizens abroad.
Ten bombs were found in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature at Ulundi last week, the African National Congress in the province said on Monday. ANC spokesperson Mtholephi Mthimkhulu said the bombs were found hidden in one of the storerooms of the legislature on Thursday.
The animosity between the prosecution and alleged Boeremag coup plotters on Monday again reached boiling point when four of the men accused the chief investigating officer of ”generating false statements”. The State on Friday last week handed up a statement by prisoner Wouter Viljoen, who said he had overheard two of the men presently applying for bail discussing how they would flee the country.