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/ 29 January 2008
Accused French rogue trader Jerome Kerviel walked free after judges placed him under formal investigation on Monday for his role in $7-billion of losses at Société Générale but stopped short of charging him with fraud. Shares in the French bank took a battering as allegations emerged that a board member was guilty of insider trading related to the scandal.
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/ 28 January 2008
Serious concerns were raised in Davos last week about the ability of the Chinese government to spy on the country’s 500-million cellphone users. China’s biggest cellphone company stunned delegates by revealing that the company had unlimited access to the personal data of its customers and handed it over to Chinese security officials when demanded.
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/ 28 January 2008
African National Congress (ANC) premiers and mayors who refuse to take instructions from the organisation will be removed from their position, ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa said on Sunday. Phosa said there was no ANC leader who was above the organisation.
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/ 28 January 2008
It has come down to Obama versus Clinton in the key southern state of South Carolina — but the Clinton that Barack Obama is up against is Bill, not Hillary. She flew out of the state late on Monday night, heading for Washington and then west to California and Arizona, leaving her husband behind to slug it out with Obama in the tough and rumbustious southern state that goes to the polls on Saturday.
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/ 28 January 2008
One of Botswana’s best-kept secrets is out: the Okavango’s “green season” in the rainy summer months is simply spectacular. As the delta’s floodplains and waterways fill up with fresh water and lush greenery, the area explodes with new life. Breeding herds of elephant with tiny calves, wobbly legged baby giraffe and boisterous zebra foals are enough to turn even the most cynical heart to mush.
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/ 25 January 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) has lashed out at a popular soap opera actress for claiming the ANC murders its opponents, and is considering legal action against her. The actress, Winnie Ntshaba, who plays Khethiwe in the soap opera Generations, was speaking at an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) gathering.
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/ 25 January 2008
In the month since the ruling party’s national conference, ANC members and South Africans in general have expressed a variety of emotions, impressions, hopes and fears about the results of that meeting. While a particular slate of individuals emerged victorious in the leadership elections, there was significant support for the alternative, writes Phillip Dexter.
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/ 25 January 2008
The ANC’s reason for disbanding the Scorpions — that there be a “single police service” in the country — was dismissed by the Constitutional Court six years ago. And this “flawed” argument was rejected by Judge Sisi Khampepe as “without merit” in her report on the future of the Scorpions.
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/ 25 January 2008
Chinese terrorists are streaming across the border. Barack Obama is a violent socialist. Mexico has been launching military attacks against the United States. God has endorsed Mike Huckabee. Spend a week with Republicans in South Carolina and you will hear the most incredible things. That a small minority in any group might say crazy things is not surprising, writes Gary Younge.
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/ 24 January 2008
African National Congress (ANC) parliamentary Chief Whip Isaac Mogase was on Wednesday removed from his position by the party’s new leadership. Briefing reporters after the party’s caucus met at Parliament, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said Mogase would be replaced by ANC MP Nathi Mthethwa.