Two airline pilots joked and laughed as they flew an empty commercial jet to its limits, switched seats in mid-air and ignored automated warnings before crashing into a residential area. Captain Jesse Rhodes and First Officer Peter Cesarz were both killed after they decided to ”have a little fun”.
Civil liberties groups have condemned an arrangement between Microsoft and Chinese authorities to censor the internet. The American company is helping censors remove ”freedom” and ”democracy” from the net in China with a software package that prevents bloggers from using these and other politically sensitive words.
No one could have predicted that a white South African would amass a R100Â Â -million-plus fortune from the empowerment process, but Mark Willcox, the CE of Mvelaphanda Holdings,has done exactly that. Willcox, holds 4,4% of the JSE Securities Exchange-listed conglomerate.
Around 190,000 homes have been destroyed and thousands arrested in the operation to clean up Zimbabwe’s cities and towns, leaving many of those affected unable to find proper shelter or food. uthorities claimed the operation, was aimed at ridding urban areas of informal flea markets and illegal residential shacks and houses, saying they had become a haven for criminal activities.
For the moment, it is the homecoming that wasn’t. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf left Kenya on Monday to relocate his transitional government to Somalia. However, the flight carrying the head of state was subsequently diverted to Djibouti. Reports indicate that poor runway lighting in the southern Somali town of Jowhar prevented the plane from landing.
The Trade and Industry Department is expected to approve a growth strategy for the country’s Business Process Outsourcing and Offshoring (BPO&O) market by September that could create 100Â 000 jobs and cumulative foreign direct investment of about R1,4Â -billion by 2008.
Time is running out for Yoweri Museveni, whose achievements in running Uganda for 19 years have allowed him to get away with political murder. But the man once compared with Nelson Mandela for his statesmanship is increasingly being likened to Robert Mugabe for clinging to power.
The Public Servants Association (PSA) plans legal action to prevent the state from reducing the medical benefits of officials who retired before July 1992, the PSA said on Tuesday. The [state] has indicated that those people affected are to be placed on a medical scheme with limitations, says PSA’s deputy general manager, Manie de Clercq.
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Deputy President Jacob Zuma is to resign as a Member of Parliament, his spokesperson Lakela Kaunda said on Tuesday. She was commenting on an African National Congress statement accepting an offer by Zuma — made in an earlier statement — to resign his seat.
The United Nations refugee organisation UNHCR on Tuesday accused Burundi of breaching international conventions on refugees after the central African nation deported around 5Â 000 Rwandan refugees. Refugees in Burundi were taken from the transit centre of Songore in the country’s north on Sunday and Monday to Rwanda.