The world needs a new breed of prosecutor and investigator to deal with the challenges of transnational organised crime, the special adviser to National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli said on Friday. Kalyani Pillay was speaking in Cape Town at a PricewaterhouseCoopers conference on economic crime in Africa.
Vodacom was up and running again on Friday afternoon after subscribers could not make or receive phone calls earlier. ”After extensive investigation Vodacom has identified that incoming data received on interconnecting links from the Cell C network appears to have disrupted the Vodacom network,” Vodacom said.
Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani promised that Tehran would cooperate with United Nations inspectors, in a meeting late on Thursday in Vienna with UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei. ”The discussion was that of course Iran is continuing its cooperation with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency],” Iran’s ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh said.
A new book picks apart the mythology of Shaka, but is also an absorbing picture of his times, writes Shaun de Waal.
Nu Metro and SABC Africa have launched a small festival for big ideas, writes Niren Tolsi.
Nigerian authorities on Friday allocated two lucrative oil blocks to companies based in the Niger Delta in a bid to douse tensions in the oil-rich restive southern region. Two oil firms — Cleanwaters Consortium and Niger Delta United — were allocated operating production licences 289 and 233 respectively during a bidding exercise.
With the international release of <i>The Da Vinci Code</i>, we ask Oxford don Peter Conrad to unpick the meaning behind the global obsession and we speak to the movie’s villain Paul Bettany about God and violence.
South Africa’s indigenous people who are yearning for land are "running out of patience" and the return of the land to those dispossessed should be accelerated, an African National Congress select committee chairperson said in the policy debate on agriculture and land affairs on Friday.
The Bush administration is poised to abandon its policy of regime change for North Korea by opening negotiations on a peace treaty at the same time as it tries to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons programme, foreign policy experts said on Thursday.
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar went back to his roots on Friday, paying homage to his mother and all women in his haunting film Volver, already hotly-tipped for the coveted Palme d’Or prize. Penélope Cruz gives a stunning performance as a young, hardworking mother who has to confront the ghosts of her past.