Just listening to Naomi Campbell is enough to get jet lag. In an interview on Monday with The Guardian newspaper, the 34-year-old British-born supermodel revealed how she didn’t stay in any one place for more than 48 hours the preceeding week.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is to challenge the Pretoria High Court’s partial dismissal of her appeal against a fraud and theft conviction on Monday. ”I have instructed my lawyers to appeal against a judgement that is completely wrong,” the former African National Congress Women’s League president told reporters outside the court.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) on Monday declared "war" against the Automobile Manufacturers Employers Organisation after wage negotiations over the weekend hit a snag once again. "We are bracing for massive strike action in the car industry," a Numsa spokesperson said.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed on Monday for a green revolution in Africa, telling a conference in Addis Ababa that ending the continent’s chronic hunger crisis was possible given the right strategies and political will. Nearly a third of all men, women and children in sub-Saharan Africa are severely malnourished.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s appeal against her fraud and theft conviction was partly upheld in the Pretoria High Court on Monday, and her four-year sentence replaced with a wholly suspended one. Judge Eberhardt Bertelsmann dismissed 25 theft charges against the former African National Congress Women’s League president, but upheld 43 of fraud.
Here’s an interesting scenario. Imagine that someone arrived at your farm one day and suddenly declared it to be someone else’s farm. "Colonialism," you’d say. Let it ride. This kind of thing is happening all the time. What can you do about it, anyway? What can anyone ever do about colonial conquest? Shit happens.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was marginally stronger in noon trade on Monday, lifted by heavyweight resources stocks that were up offshore. However, the low volumes were the morning’s most noticeable feature and with United States markets closed, were likely to remain so.
A member of listed financial services group Alexander Forbes, Lane Clark & Peacock LLP, has acquired Libera AG, Switzerland’s largest independent employee benefits consulting business, from Ernst & Young for a consideration of approximately 20-million Swiss francs (R98-million).
South African electronics company Reunert’s wholly-owned subsidiary Saco Systems has concluded a deal with British company Intellident to promote and deliver the latest technology in "smart label" RFID library solutions for the Southern Africa market, Reunert announced on Monday.
South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has urged the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) to exercise strong oversight of local governments to improve service delivery as a matter of national importance. He was speaking at an NCOP workshop in Cape Town on Monday focusing on challenges facing the council.