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/ 9 November 2006
Convicted fraud convict Schabir Shaik handed himself over at the Durban High Court around 8.30am on Thursday. The Durban businessman, also convicted of corruption, was expected to arrive at Durban Westville Prison later in the morning to start serving a 15-year jail term.
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/ 9 November 2006
First National Bank (FNB), a division of the FirstRand Group, on Thursday tabled an industry proposal that would save customers more than R500-million annually in Saswitch fees. The bank is seeking guidance from the Competition Commission, which is conducting an enquiry into banking, on how best to achieve this goal.
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/ 9 November 2006
Mobile number portability should finally break the stranglehold on the industry by Vodacom and MTN, says Jeffery Hedberg, chief executive of Cell C. "The playing fields have just not been level. Vodacom with its Telkom parent was given a massive head start by being allowed to be first to this market," he said.
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/ 9 November 2006
There was no sign of businessman Schabir Shaik at Durban’s Westville Prison by 6.30am on Thursday morning, where he was expected to report for a 15-year jail sentence. The media arrived before dawn, on the lookout for the black BMW in which Shaik was expected to arrive. It was their second day spent waiting outside the prison.
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/ 9 November 2006
Zimbabwe has developed an animal antibiotic that is set to ”revolutionise” the agricultural sector, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. Its website said the new drug would bolster the control of internal and external parasites in livestock.
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/ 9 November 2006
The Ethiopian government is responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of students and other critics over the past 15 years, one of the country’s most senior judges, who has defected to Britain, said on Wednesday. Judge Teshale Aberra claimed the government of Meles Zenawi is as bad or worse than that of his predecessor, Mengistu Haile Mariam.
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/ 9 November 2006
”When I go home, I often notice that as soon as I come, all the towels, soaps and sponges that were in the bathroom will disappear,” says Isaiah Ojeabulu, who has leprosy. He chairs the Human Rights Association of Persons Affected by Leprosy, an organisation in Nigeria. Ojeabulu has similar tales from his earlier years. He says discrimination against him started from the moment that he contracted leprosy.
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/ 8 November 2006
United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned on Wednesday, paying the price for the Democrat surge to power in Congress driven by a wave of public anger over the Iraq war. President George Bush announced the veteran power broker’s departure, sending shockwaves though Washington.
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/ 8 November 2006
Springbok coach Jake White handed debuts to three players when he announced his starting side on Wednesday to play Ireland in the team’s European tour opener at Lansdowne Road in Dublin on Saturday. The new players line up in the back three, with fullback Bevin Fortuin, right wing Jaco Pretorius and left wing Francois Steyn all taking the field.