In a move that could soon be outlawed, a senior Independent Communications Authority of South Africa official has joined a private company shortly after its licence was amended, allowing it to become a major player in the broadband industry. Former Icasa councillor Mbulelo Ncetezo, joined Wireless Business Solutions in August as head of legal and regulatory affairs.
Batman has flapped to the top of the charts, with -million in his vault. Superman returns next year — it is easy to believe that we are being held hostage by a quango of preening male superheroes. If little boys have the Bat and the alien that wears turquoise tights, who can little girls admire?
Under the punishing rays of summer the shirtless Eladio Garcia throws his fishing nets over a mangrove-ringed lagoon in the isolated Costa Chica region on Mexico’s Pacific coast. Breaking off from his daily ritual, he recalls the stories his grandparents used to tell him about how his ancestors arrived in the area on a ship that sank off the coast.
Referring to sometimes less-than-ideal finances in her budget speech in April, Western Cape provincial minister of environmental affairs and development planning Tasneem Essop (pictured) remarked: ”What we will certainly offer is leadership, energy, commitment, dedication and passion — and this does not require a budget.”
Sixty people were injured, 10 critically, on Wednesday night when two Metrorail trains collided at Merafe station in Naledi, Soweto, following a power failure in the area. ”What happened was that a train crashed into a stationary one due to the power failure,” said Metrorail marketing and communications manager Brenda Motau.
I began to realise how much trouble we were in when Hilary Benn, the United Kingdoms’s Secretary of State for International Development, announced that he would be joining the Make Poverty History march last Saturday. What would he be chanting, I wondered? ”Down with me and all I stand for”?
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The deliberate destruction of the informal economy in Zimbabwe is unparalleled in modern-day Africa, church leaders said in a report released on Tuesday. The report was compiled by 12 leaders from Christian churches who visited a transit camp south-east of Harare earlier this week.
British police hunting the London bombers have made a ”series of arrests” following the identification of one of the attackers who died in the blast on a London bus last Thursday. The arrests were made during raids and searches of six properties in the northern city of Leeds early on Tuesday.