SA

Zuma allegations off the table

April 7, 2009

By Carien du Plessis, Angela Quintal and Karyn Maughan (www.iol.co.za) It’s payback time and the African National Congress wants former NPA bigwigs Bulelani Ngcuka and Leonard McCarthy to be punished for allegedly conspiring against Jacob Zuma. This emerged on Monday after acting National Prosecuting Authority boss Mokotedi Mpshe announced that charges would be dropped against Continue Reading…

How I shot 5 robbers

January 29, 2009

(Written by Lavern de Vries from iol.co.za) A gun-slinging grandfather has told how he pursued a band of suspected robbers, stood on the bonnet of a bakkie, shot and killed two of them and wounded three. Seated in his small office in the Brighton shopping complex in Kraafontein, 56-year-old security man Hennie Jacobs recounted his Continue Reading…

Telkom – Let them outsource

December 1, 2008

(Article by Duncan McLeod at mybroadband.co.za) Telkom is engaged in one of the biggest outsourcing projects SA has seen. Telkom is engaged in one of the biggest outsourcing projects SA has seen. It could result in as many as four-fifths of its employees moving off its payroll. The unions are gearing up for a fight. Continue Reading…

Cops kill suspect armed with toy gun

November 19, 2008

(Article by Lesego Masemola at www.iol.co.za) Police are trying to locate the family of a suspected house robber who was armed with a toy gun and killed while trying to run away from the police at the weekend. The suspect is believed to be in his early twenties and it is thought that he is Continue Reading…

R40m loss caused by eNaTIS

November 11, 2008

(Article from iol.co.za) Traffic system eNaTIS may be responsible for the Beaufort West municipality’s loss of R40-million in outstanding traffic fines, papers filed in the Cape High Court revealed. The papers, filed by Traffic Environment Services and Technologies (Test) – the company the municipality appointed to collect the fines – show the system allegedly captured Continue Reading…

Good petrol news in pipeline for SA motorists

October 28, 2008

(Article at www.iol.co.za) The price of petrol could drop by about 35 cents a litre from next Wednesday. Efficient Group economist Dawie Roodt said yesterday that although the rand was weaker, the oil price was dropping – a 35c cut was therefore on the cards. He expected the price of diesel to drop by about Continue Reading…