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/ 3 September 2004
The children ensnared in the three-day hostage drama in North Ossetia will have probably suffered major psychological damage and some may never get over their ordeal completely, a French expert warned on Friday. "This case is of the gravest kind," he said. "The psychological problems will be major."
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/ 3 September 2004
Telecommunications group Telkom dominated activity on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) on Friday, which was otherwise quiet as players awaited the release of United States non-farm payrolls data. While Telkom shares were down sharply, the rest of the market was firmer, helped by strength in US markets overnight and a slightly softer rand.
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/ 3 September 2004
South Africa is in advanced negotiations to get oil exploration rights from the government of Equatorial Guinea. The impending deal will expand the foothold of PetroSA, the South African state oil company, in the booming Gulf of Guinea. But it raises the question: Has the promise of oil lucre clouded the government’s judgement in helping a country with a dismal human rights record prosecute the mercenaries who wanted to topple President Teodoro Obiang Nguema?
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/ 3 September 2004
John Dludlu, the editor of the <i>Sowetan</i> newspaper, has resigned from the company, Johnnic Communications announced on Friday. Former <i>Pretoria News</i> and <i>Sunday World</i> editor Thabo Leshilo is due to take over as editor-in-chief of both the <i>Sowetan</i> and <i>Sunday World</i> newspapers.
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/ 3 September 2004
More than 50 000 South Africans who have been disabled by work-related accidents in the past 11 years are challenging the government in court. They claim the government has reneged on its statutory obligation to provide them with a financial lifeline. Most of them have had no source of income since they were injured and either rely on extended families for support or eke out a living on the streets.
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/ 3 September 2004
A Muslim couple is suing the department of health in the Western Cape for R5-million after their baby daughter became infected with HIV under mysterious circumstances at one of two leading paediatric hospitals. The unprecedented action has major ramifications for hospital health regimes, as well as for other parents in the same predicament.
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/ 3 September 2004
Who among us can honestly say that our children have never done anything a little bit naughty? Going into next door’s garden to get their ball back without asking; funding military coups in Third World countries with an eye to making an illegal fortune. No child is perfect and they grow out of these things; he’s only 51, for goodness sake.
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/ 3 September 2004
The official opposition Democratic Alliance has welcomed Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri’s overhaul of the telecommunications sector by loosening the grip of the current fixed line monopoly, Telkom. "Telkom’s stranglehold on the internet and value-added network services has been holding South Africa back," said shadow communications minister Dene Smuts.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=121577">Minister eases ICT restrictions</a>
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/ 3 September 2004
All of the Russian school where hundreds had been held hostage since Wednesday is now under control of Russian special forces, following a series of explosions and heavy gunfire from both sides. According to AP, 250 people were wounded in the school — 180 of them children. At least 10 people, children and adults, were killed.
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/ 3 September 2004
Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana’s blistering attack on the national Department of Education this week has blown the lid off tensions simmering between the two departments since 2001. Until Mdladlana’s outburst, the rift had been officially denied.