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/ 21 January 2004
Cellular telephone services provider Vodacom, in which partially privatised telecommunications giant Telkom has a 50% stake, has surpassed the 10-million customer mark. At the end of 2003 it had 10,2-million customers on its networks operated in South Africa and other African countries.
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/ 21 January 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) was weaker in noon trade on Wednesday, with a robust rand taking its toll on heavyweight dual-listed and resources stocks. A weaker Dow overnight added to the negative sentiment and decliners outnumbered advancers on the all-share index by amount two to one.
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/ 21 January 2004
South African Minister of Labour on Wednesday called on the parties involved in the baggage handler strike at Johannesburg International airport to settle their dispute using the framework created by labour legislation.
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/ 21 January 2004
Children’s voices reciting the Qur’an echo down the narrow alleyways in one of Mogadishu’s residential neighborhoods where three or four generations of Somalis share small, concrete block homes behind high white walls and dark wooden doors.
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/ 21 January 2004
Salome Isaacs, the woman who laid a charge of rape against prominent South African Judge Siraj Desai, secretly escaped the media waiting at Johannesburg International airport for her return from Mumbai, India, on Wednesday morning.
Desai could face life in prison
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/ 21 January 2004
The Johannesburg Regional Court heard on Tuesday that Andrew Phillips, owner of the Sandton brothel The Ranch was ”turned on” by prostitutes working at the venue. According to witness Ovidio Muresan, the prostitute named Anna, whom he thought of as his girlfriend, was the most beautiful girl at The Ranch, and she made the most money.
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/ 21 January 2004
With less than two weeks to go before the closing date for comments on the Convergence Bill, a hoo-ha has erupted. Signalled by, among others, The Citizen on its front page (January 17), the claim is that the current draft law, if promulgated, will ”require all website owners or publishers to have a content applications service licence to operate”. Well, it depends.
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/ 21 January 2004
The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> was on Tuesday hit by a new e-mail worm that is quickly spreading around the world. The worm, called Bagle or Beagle, was sent via the <i>M&G Online</i>’s newsletter list. It spread rapidly over the weekend, with several security firms issuing bulletins on it on Monday.
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/ 21 January 2004
A court of appeal in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, has ordered the Nigeria Labour Congress to suspend a proposed strike that had been scheduled to start on Wednesday. It has also ordered authorities to reverse the one cent petrol tax that is at the heart of the labour dispute.