The founder of Fastweb, Italy’s number-two telecommunications company, has reached 1,1-million Italian customers and is now seeking to bring internet television to as many of the world’s 300-million broadband users as he can reach with his new venture, an internet TV network called Babelgum.
A two-week strike that crippled operations at a major bus company was called off on Tuesday following a settlement agreement between the company and the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union. ”In terms of the agreement, all employees will resume their normal duties tomorrow [Wednesday],” Autopax spokesperson Trechia Arlow said on Tuesday.
Five members of a British embassy group missing for two weeks in a remote part of Ethiopia have been released and are safe and well, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday.
There is R600-million for apartheid victims who appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that has not been paid out as reparations, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. DA justice spokesperson Sheila Camerer said it was unacceptable for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Communication to turn a blind eye to people’s suffering.
A police sergeant inexperienced in murder scenes told the Cape High Court on Tuesday of his shock at finding the corpse of estate agent Andre Weitz bludgeoned to death in a duplex in Cape Town. Bernard van Zyl (28), Weitz’s former romantic partner, is alleged to have attacked Weitz with an axe in June 2004.
An assault case against the kwaito star known to his fans as Mandoza was postponed in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, police said. Glen Nonkonyana (30) laid a charge at the Kliptown police station on Monday, alleging that Mandoza had assaulted him at a flat in Ferndale in Randburg late on Saturday, police said.
Royalty payments are tax deductible under the Income Tax Act, the Supreme Court of Appeal held on Tuesday, upholding an appeal by BP Southern Africa against a judgement of the Cape Town Income-Tax Special Court. The case was about the BP trademarks, colour schemes, designs and symbols that BP Southern Africa has used since 1959.
The Labour Ministry on Tuesday accused the Democratic Alliance (DA) of purposely misrepresenting the facts about Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana’s availability to answer questions in Parliament. A DA statement on Monday listed Mdladlana as being among ministers who evaded parliamentary questions.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is considering a tough security plan that could see the country placed under a state of emergency within the coming month, media reports said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has appeared in court, two days after he was arrested, and a protest in Johannesburg has called for his release.
Google on Monday added details of WWF environmental projects to its popular global online mapping service. The Mountain View, California, internet search powerhouse wove WWF images, information and website links into its popular Google Earth program.