By Novell Zwange – GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA – Premier metered taxi service provider, MY CABZ, has today announced the expansion of its world-class metered taxi service in the Gauteng Province. MY CABZ is a women-run empowerment company headed by young South African entrepreneur Sharon Tshabalala. With the expansion of the MY CABZ luxury cab service, Gauteng is witnessing the introduction of a safe, reliable and professional metered-taxi service in the province. In 2009, MY CABZ introduced the “premium metered taxi” business in Midrand. Following the exceptional consumer response to the MY CABZ cab service in Midrand and Pretoria, the company... Continue Reading
By Novell Zwange in Johannesburg, South Africa – Johannesburg City of Dreams an exhibition of photographs taken by British photographer Emma O’Brien over the last six months, opens tomorrow Tuesday 7th December at Upstairs @ Bamboo Cnr 9th Street and Rustenburg Road, Melville, from 10.30am and runs till 6pm on the 15th December. Since moving to South Africa last year, Emma has been involved with various community outreach programmes, using her skills as a photographer to bring awareness to the work done by each charity. This exhibition has been generously sponsored by Credit Suisse Standard Securities and will feature photographs... Continue Reading
Trial Chamber II of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda composed of Judges Arlette Ramaroson, Presiding, Taghrid Hikmet and Joseph Masanche, today convicted Ildephonse Hategekimana, former Commander of the Ngoma Camp for crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Hategekimana, who was a Lieutenant in Rwanda Armed Forces, was found guilty on three counts of genocide for killing of Tutsi at Ngoma Parish and at Maison Généralice as well as crimes against humanity for murdering several others and raping one Nura Sezirahiga. The accused was acquitted of one count of complicity in... Continue Reading
By Novell Zwange – JOHANNESBURG – The civil rights initiative AfriForum said as long as the ANC continues with its appeal case in the South Gauteng High Court to have the use of the slogan “shoot the Boer” legalised, the ANC and Julius Malema have to accept responsibility for the murders on farms, like the most recent incident where the 3 year-old Willemien Potgieter and her parents, Wilna and Attie Potgieter, had been executed in cold blood on their farm near Lindley in the Free State. According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, the murder of the Potgieters make people all... Continue Reading
By Danny O’Brien/CPJ – As CPJ has previously documented, journalists in Egypt have faced a deterioration in press freedom in the run-up to the presidential vote on Saturday. Editors have been fired, TV shows suspended, and regulations over SMS texting suddenly tightened. In the final few days, a new forum found itself caught up in this attempt to control the media message–the social networking site Facebook. Facebook is very popular among young, politically active Egyptians, with a local membership in excess of 4 million. While some media outlets have been constrained, many Egyptians have turned to the social networking site to... Continue Reading
