Microsoft could face new fines for possible violations of European data protection laws, the European Union’s head office said.
A hotly contested bill to encourage e-commerce and take control of the South African domain name passed its final hurdle on Tuesday and will become law as soon as President Thabo Mbeki signs it.
Former Cape Town Mayor Gerald Morkel resigned this afternoon as provincial leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the wake of the Desai Commission of Inquiry into his links with German fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen.
Aids and human rights are so closely linked that any attempt to stop the spread of the killer virus must also fight against poverty and exclusion, the French chapter of Amnesty International said on Sunday to mark World Aids Day.
Switzerland has denied it leaked information to a French newspaper about the alleged involvement of Angola’s president in a -million embezzlement of his government’s loan repayment to Russia.
A customer reaches out of his car window and squeezes Cristal’s bare flesh like a shopper testing fruit. Without a word, he drives on. Another car pulls up, and Cristal purrs ”Ciao, ciao,” and grabs for the door.
The Democratic Alliance on Monday called on the government to answer allegations made last week that South Africa was selling equipment used to develop nuclear weapons to Iraq.
Greece offered on Monday to lend antiquities to the British Museum in exchange for the Elgin Marbles that once decorated the Parthenon but now are a star London attraction.
South Africa’s chief justice on Thursday deplored the treatment meted out to a retired Zimbabwean judge facing criminal charges in his country, describing it as a threat to judicial independence.
The bail application brought last month by a man alleged to have used a fake bomb to rob a bank, may have to start afresh if not finalised by the end of June.