Vodacom has obtained an interim court order preventing workers who belong to the Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) from continuing their strike, the CWU said on Monday. ”It is unfortunate that the judge granted Vodacom the interim interdict. That has forced us to suspend our strike,” CWU spokesperson Mfanafuthi Sithebe said.
A Japanese construction worker has unearthed a plastic treasure box stuffed with 50-million yen (about R3,2-million), police said on Monday. The 43-year-old found the small box 20cm under the soil as he flattened a vacant lot with an excavator on Saturday in central Aichi prefecture.
Naturally I thought that I was rich at last. But something gave me pause for thought. It was the fifth time, at least, that I had been told through an anonymous email message that I had earned £1 000 000 (yes, one million pounds sterling, cash) in the space of two years.
Doctors have not indicated when ailing Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang will be discharged from hospital, her spokesperson said on Monday. Earlier on Monday, the Presidency said that President Thabo Mbeki had not met Tshabalala-Msimang’s husband to discuss relieving her of her duties due to her ill health.
The United Nations copyright agency saw a 15% increase in ”cybersquatting” complaints last year. The World Intellectual Property Organisation, which handles arbitration for more than half of the world’s cybersquatting disputes each year, registered 1 823 complaints in 2006.
Ford has agreed to sell its iconic Aston Martin brand for just more than £470-million (R6,65-billion) to a British-led consortium, the United States firm said on Monday. The luxury car maker is famous for its long-running association with the James Bond blockbuster films.
Trustees of the late Brett Kebble’s estate had by Monday not been formally notified that the Western Cape’s African National Congress (ANC) branch would keep the mining magnate’s donations. If the party refused to pay back the millions Kebble had given it, the trustees would turn to the Insolvency Act, said an attorney.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi urged the kidnappers of five Europeans and eight locals on Monday to give them up, saying the hostages were not the original target of an attack in the remote north. ”I do not believe these people were targeted. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Meles said in his first public comments on the kidnap that took place 11 days ago.
Rules at Oprah Winfrey’s posh school at Henley-on-Klip near Johannesburg apparently make a reformatory look like a holiday resort, the Witness reported on Monday. Its website said that was the word from upset parents, who felt the school rules made it difficult for them to keep contact with their children.
A Cape High Court judge on Monday criticised the police for their lack of professionalism at the scene of the murder of Stellenbosch student Inge Lotz. ”In my 22 years on the Bench, I have never seen anything so bad,” Judge Deon van Zyl remarked as it emerged that a key piece of evidence had been moved.