SOUTH African Internet recruitment portal CareerJunction’s traffic volumes have soared by more than 100% in the past three months on the back of an aggressive online strategy sparked by new partner Johnnic e-Ventures. The effect of the Johnnic e-Ventures deal – which saw JeV buy 51% of CareerJunction in June – has been dramatic.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Monday NIGERIA’S top lawmakers take home pay and allowances worth more than $9 000 a month, most of which they have awarded themselves, in a country where most people earn less than a dollar a day. Members of the 109-seat Senate, or upper house, and the 360-seat House of Representatives, or […]

THE military command of Angola’s UNITA rebel movement has “totally and irrevocably” rejected an amnesty offered last week by the country’s government, saying the offer from Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos was “nothing more than a bait”. UNITA recently presented the government with a series of proposals, including the setting-up of a new government, the […]

THE High Court in Zimbabwe has ordered the state to immediately return broadcasting equipment it seized from the country’s first private radio station a month and half ago. Anthony Brooks, the lawyer for Capital Radio, said the government would return all the equipment save for the transmitter and antenna, which cannot be owned without a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday THE eight former Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) operatives who attempted to kill Transport Minister Dullah Omar, his wife Farida and journalist Gavin Evans should be denied amnesty because they gave only “glimpses of the truth”, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has heard. Ferdi Barnard, Carl “Calla” Botha, Joe Verster, […]

FREE State Premier Winkie Direko has expressed shock at the arrest of the speaker of the province’s legislature on murder charges, SABC radio news reported on Sunday. Joe Mafereka was arrested on Saturday at Johannesburg International Airport by members of the Special Investigation Unit on murder charges related to taxi violence in 1989. Before joining […]

POLICE in Florida, west of Johannesburg, were searching on Monday for a 62-year-old man who allegedly sexually abused three of his five children over the course of 20 years. The man apparently fled a flat he had shared with two daughters after his elder daughter laid charges of sexual assault and incest against him. The […]

EGYPT’S high military court on Sunday condemned 15 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to between three and five years in prison for reviving the outlawed movement, the judge announced. Five people were acquitted of the same charges while three were sentenced to five years and 12 got three years. Former member of parliament Mukhtar […]

BOUBKER BELKADI, Algiers | Monday A DELEGATION from Amnesty International has left strife-torn Algeria disappointed at being unable to meet government officials and army officers over rights abuses, a spokesman said. Roger Clark, a Canadian leading the delegation from the human rights organisation, said the group regretted that it could not realise the goals it […]

NORTHERN Cape police have identified the man who died after he was chained to a tree by his neck on a farm in the Kakamas area in the Northern Cape as 38-year-old Adam Smit. Police found Smit’s body on the farm Soetap along with his friend Dawid Klaaste, who survived the ordeal. Two farmworkers – […]