Microsoft on Wednesday filed court papers offering to change its behaviour in a move that could delay the final ruling in the anti-monopoly case brought against it by the United States government. It will also argue that the break-up of the company, as proposed by the Department of Justice and 17 US states, goes far […]
Andrew Osborn in Brussels Hundreds of millions of pounds stolen by the late Nigerian dictator General Sani Abacha and his entourage is stashed in bank accounts in London and Jersey, lawyers working for the Nigerian government claimed this week. The money is allegedly in accounts belonging to some of Abacha’s close family and friends and […]
David Le Page You may just have recovered from your Lovebug woes. But if you’re a Hotmail user, don’t breathe easy just yet. A new security flaw in the Microsoft-owned free e-mail service has been uncovered, which potentially allows crackers (malevolent hackers) to access your Hotmail account, read and delete your mail, and send messages […]
Jubie Matlou Papi Nkosi (58) cuts a humble figure. He does not mind taking a seat on a concrete slab for a press interview, nor does he hesitate to draw water from a tap with the palm of his hand. Such character and personality contrast sharply with Nkosi’s recently found fortune: exporting 800 tonnes of […]
Barry Streek No one can be unfairly discriminated against in the workplace on the basis of HIV status, and an employee may not be dismissed simply because he or she is HIV-positive or has Aids, according to a draft code drawn up by the Department of Labour. The code also lays down that no employer […]
Chris McGreal in Freetown The young black man with a Sierra Leone accent insisted that he was indeed William Edward Floode. It said so on his Welsh birth certificate; born October 1975 in South Glamorgan. Floode pleaded that he has a brother in London and an aunt working for the United Kingdom probation service. There […]
The line between tax havens and offshore financial centres is fairly fuzzy, with most of the latter operating in the former Sarah Bullen A tax haven is one of those emotive phrases that conjur up images from a John Grisham novel: Lotharios in tailored suits popping over to an island for a day, azure seas, […]
If land hunger is the way blacks in Zimbabwe most acutely experience the legacy of white supremacy, in South Africa the comparable black experience is lack of access to capital. We either correct this shortcoming or we bid goodbye to any possibility of a prosperous and peaceful South Africa. Apartheid set out systematically to destroy […]
A documentary about the transformation of Pretoria’s JG Strijdom Square is to be screened at a Canadian film festival Thebe Mabanga and Connie Selebogo A Pretoria-based black film-maker’s story about an apartheid-era icon is about to enjoy a world-wide audience. Pule Diphare’s JG Strijdom is Very, Very Dead will be shown at Halifax Input 2000, […]
Neil Thomas TAKING STOCK Small investors are dazed and confused. So they should be; a lot of big, professional investors are feeling pretty much the same. It’s time to take a deep breath, shake our heads and try to get a clear view on our investments. It also helps to remember that we are living […]