New York-listed Computer Science Corporation has announced a black economic empowerment (BEE) alliance with two of South Africa’s leading black-owned SAP implementation specialist companies, Cornastone Technology Holdings and Nokusa Consulting.
John Kerry’s thoroughly modern American family — complete with divorce, loss, stepchildren and forward roles for women — was rolled out to the public on Wednesday, a walking testimonial to the Democratic challenger. Heinz Kerry got top billing, her popularity among the Democratic faithful at new heights after Tuesday night’s address to the Democratic convention — and the latest public outburst from a woman unafraid of eccentricity.
Cape Town’s traffic and city police will apply the full force of the law in dealing with taxi violence, councillor Danile Landingwe said on Thursday. Landingwe said the city will take a ”zero tolerance” stance, following meetings with representatives from taxi organisations this week to discuss outbreaks of violence in the industry.
Bangladesh has called for international help to rebuild the flood-ravaged country as the country’s death toll from the monsoon deluge reached 500 on Thursday, officials said. Almost half of Bangladesh’s 130-million population has been displaced by one of the worst seasonal floods to hit the country in decades.
A purported al-Qaeda statement posted on an Islamist website threatened Europe with a ”bloody war” following the expiry of a July 15 deadline set by Osama bin Laden for European states to pull troops out of Muslim countries. ”Today, we declare a bloody war on you. We will not stop our raids until you return to reason,” said the statement.
The Swaziland government’s contempt for court rulings and judicial independence has allowed impunity for perpetrators of human rights violations, Amnesty International said on Thursday in a new report titled Swaziland: Human Rights at Risk in a Climate of Political and Legal Uncertainty.
Gold stocks were a feature on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) in noon trade on Thursday, which was in the black due to demand for gold and other resources stocks. A weakening in the rand also added to the positive picture. By noon, the all-share index was up 0,37%. Resources climbed 0,83% and the gold mining index surged 3,13%.
The pay-off line of SA Fashion Week is ”The Business of Fashion”, but programme director Dion Chang believes the real business will only start when designers’ ”houses are in order”. And years of begging buyers to come to Fashion Week may start to bear dividends.
The African National Congress won a by-election in Umtata on Wednesday — the fifth upset victory by the party in the past few weeks — over General Bantu Holomisa’s United Democratic Movement. In other by-elections on Wednesday, the Democratic Alliance snatched a municipal ward in Somerset East from the ANC.
The African Union has said it may transform its protection force into a ”fully-fledged peacekeeping mission” in Sudan’s Darfur region to force the government-backed Janjaweed militia to lay down its arms in line with a ceasefire deal. The pan-African body is already planning to send some 300 troops to Darfur by the end of July to protect its team of observers and monitors overseeing the implementation of a shaky ceasefire deal.