Alt-X listed DataPro Group has obtained shareholder approval to change its name to Vox Telecom, the company said on Thursday. The change is consistent with the company’s strategy of positioning itself as an alternative telecom operator offering a broad portfolio of voice and data services, it said.
A properly implemented social-security system can benefit South Africa even more than it has Chile, Dr José Piñera — former presidential candidate and architect of Chile’s highly successful social-security system — said on Thursday. He said the spectre of bankrupt, government-run social-security systems is haunting the world.
Ethiopia said on Thursday it was making military preparations for any possible invasion by arch-foe and neighbour Eritrea, against whom it fought a devastating border war. ”It is deemed necessary to make the necessary military preparation for deterring a possible Eritrean invasion,” Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told Parliament.
There were varying responses on Thursday from delegates who had attended African National Congress (ANC) policy conference ”commissions” to discuss the strategy and tactics document at Gallagher Estate in Midrand. A delegate from KwaZulu-Natal said there were different views from most of the delegates at the commission he attended.
Dina Rodrigues, the mastermind in the June 2005 murder of baby Jordan-Leigh Norton, was on Thursday sentenced to life in prison. Two of her co-accused, Sipho Mongezi Mfazwe and Mongezi Bobotyane, also received life sentences. The packed public gallery applauded the sentences loudly.
Beijing’s long-suffering taxi-drivers are in the cross-hairs once again — with shaved heads to be banned from the driving seat ahead of next year’s Beijing Olympics, a report said on Thursday. Just two months after women taxi drivers were banned from wearing "too-fancy" hairstyles, new rules will outlaw beards and shaved heads for the men.
The number of millionaires in the world increased by 8,3% in 2006, with about 9,5-million individuals now estimated to have more than -million in financial assets, a report said on Wednesday. The financial assets owned by the group totalled ,2-trillion, an increase of 11,4% from 2005.
Gunmen killed four people in Nairobi’s largest slum, raising fears of a possible raid by a dreaded sect blamed for a string of murders and beheadings, police said on Thursday. Police commander Herbert Khaemba said the gunmen attacked Kibera slums, home to at least 800Â 000 people, and killed four after a botched robbery attempt.
Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has been elected chairperson of the board of trustees of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), barely a month after leaving power, his aides said on Thursday. The 70-year-old retired general was elected PDP chairperson on Wednesday.
Debates at the African National Congress (ANC) policy conference in Midrand were on Thursday held in the dark for about an hour after a power failure. The electricity came on shortly after 11am. A security guard at the venue said that generators had powered electricity in one area of the venue. However, on the other side delegates had discussions in the dark.