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/ 18 November 2005
A showdown is looming between Telkom and municipalities across the country as they begin to roll out their own telecommunication networks. One municipality, Knysna, is already using its own wireless network even though it has received a warning from Telkom. It plans to offer wireless services through a private company to consumers from early next year.
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/ 18 November 2005
Rape allegations against African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma appear to have been deliberately leaked in a bid to increase the pressure on Zuma ahead of this weekend’s crucial ANC national executive committee meeting. However, no evidence has come to light to suggest the allegations themselves were manufactured. Zuma, through his attorney, has categorically denied the charge.
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/ 18 November 2005
Clare O’Neil, general manager of SABC Television Sales, announced her resignation from the public broadcaster this morning. She will be taking over as managing director of research and data firm Telmar South Africa from February 2006. Jenny Potter, the outgoing head of Telmar SA, will be moving to the Telmar global office.
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/ 18 November 2005
South Africans seem to specialise in doing difficult jobs well, often with unique and apparently dangerous technologies. The country’s expertise in gold and diamond mining is well known, but its success with fuel technologies, polymer research, boat building, wine growing and even Aids treatment, among many others, is now gaining respect and recognition.
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/ 18 November 2005
After days of demonstrations in the Liberian capital, the woman poised to become Africa’s first female President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has offered to team up with George Weah, the former world footballer of the year she defeated. Johnson-Sirleaf has said she would like him to be minister of youth and sport in her next government.
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/ 18 November 2005
Stark choices face Sultan Rehman, a farmer stranded high in a valley devastated by the earthquake, and time is running out. One month ago the 7,6 magnitude earthquake violently upended his peaceful world in Sosal, a small hamlet perched on a mountain ledge about 130km north of Islamabad. His house was crushed, his brother was killed, and his family was left clinging to life in perilous conditions.
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/ 18 November 2005
The release and re-arrest of members of a Yoruba organisation this week have marked the latest chapter in Nigeria’s bid to contain ethnic unrest in various parts of the country. Fredrick Fasehun and Gani Adams, leaders of the Oodua Peoples Congress, were initially jailed with four other members of the group after clashes broke out in the commercial capital of Lagos last month.
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/ 18 November 2005
The corruption scandal at Volkswagen this year robbed Europe’s largest car-maker of at least â,¬5-million (about R40-million) in illegal kickbacks and theft, an independent report by auditors KPMG disclosed recently. The report brought closer criminal charges against Peter Hartz, the former personnel director and close adviser to Germany’s outgoing German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.
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/ 18 November 2005
For once, the circumstances of a boy’s death from an Israeli bullet are not in dispute. The army concedes that one of its soldiers shot 12-year-old Ahmed Khatib during a raid on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank earlier this month. Other Palestinian children playing with Ahmed have backed up the military’s statement that he was waving a toy gun.
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/ 18 November 2005
There is a good Zulu word that captures why African National Congress Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s guilt or innocence on fraud charges is not an issue for his supporters. It is ukusizelana — ”empathy” or ”mutual help”. ”It’s like this,” says Mike Zuma, a guest at the Friends of the Jacob Zuma Trust cocktail party on the Durban beachfront last Friday evening.