An interim interdict to prevent striking workers from entering, interfering with or obstructing access to Vodacom premises was extended on Wednesday. The Labour Court extended the interdict to Friday, when it will deliver a final decision on whether the interim interdict will be made permanent, said a Vodacom spokesperson.
Cricket South Africa announced a provisional 30-man South African squad on Wednesday, from which the final 15-man Proteas squad to play in the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) inaugural World Twenty20 South Africa 2007 tournament will be chosen. The final, 15-man Proteas squad must be submitted to the ICC by August 11.
A white powder found at a post office at Alberton, south of Johannesburg, earlier this month was not anthrax, police said on Wednesday. Eleven people were admitted to hospital on July 6 after they came in contact with an envelope containing a white powder.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has postponed a court interdict that would have prevented a screening of the controversial documentary Unauthorised: Thabo Mbeki by the Mail & Guardian in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday rebuked Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube for breaking his vow of celibacy after state media ran pictures of his arch-critic in bed with a married woman. ”Since you are my archbishop, Pius, and you swore to celibacy, keep your vows,” Mugabe said at the burial of a former army chief.
Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis, convicted killers of South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Chris Hani, on Wednesday invited leaders of the SACP to visit them in jail and ask any questions about the murder. Their legal representative faxed a letter to SACP secretary general Blade Nzimande inviting a delegation to meet them and their lawyers.
Nigerian police intercepted a truck carrying 62 people, including babies and children, in a suspected case of mass human trafficking, the agency in charge of fighting such crimes said on Wednesday. ”We think it is possible that human traffickers recruited these people,” said the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons.
Seven people died in a bus accident on KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN) South Coast on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Speaking earlier from the accident scene, Victor Chetty, director of protection services for the Hibiscus Coast, said six people had died at the accident in Southbroom and eight were critically injured.
The World Bank on Wednesday approved grants of -million for Malawi and Mozambique to increase the availability and reliability of low cost, environmentally friendly electricity in Southern Africa. Malawi will get -million and Mozambique -million to connect Malawi to the Southern African Power Pool through Mozambique.
Peace talks due to start in Somalia this week were overshadowed by a grenade attack in a Mogadishu market that killed at least three people on Wednesday. The attack caused chaos at the Bakara market a day before the opening of the peace meeting, already adjourned from the weekend in a climate of violence.