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Wave of Layoffs Hits Icelandic Employment Market
There has been a wave of layoffs in Iceland this month; approximately 180 workers lost their jobs at five companies. Head of the Directorate of Labor Gissur P�tursson said further layoffs are expected in the coming days.Source: http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news?cat_id=29314&ew_0_a_id=382771
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Kroenke defends Wenger again
Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke has again moved to defend under-fire manager Arsene Wenger.
|||London – Arsene Wenger is one of the world's greatest managers and his future at Arsenal is assured for as long as he wants to stay, the club's owner Stan Kroenke said in a rare interview on Friday.
The 64-year-old American billionaire, whose portfolio of teams includes the St Louis Rams in the NFL, the Denver Nuggets in the NBA and the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer, has also been Arsenal's majority shareholder since earlier this year.
Nicknamed “Silent Stan” by the British media, he finally spoke in depth for the first time since he started buying into Arsenal four years ago with an interview in the Daily Telegraph.
Despite the club's poorest start to a season since 1953, and some fans calling for the 61-year-old Wenger to leave, Kroenke gave the Frenchman a stunning endorsement, 15 years to the day he was appointed manager.
“Arsene is one of my favourite people I have met in the last 20 years. He is a great person and I love the way he handles himself. He is one of the great managers,” he said.
Asked if he could stay at the club for another decade, Kroenke replied: “With Arsene, it his decision and only he will know that.”
Arsenal have improved in recent weeks but they have not won any silverware since the FA Cup in 2005 and lost two of their most influential players in the off-season when Cesc Fabregas joined Barcelona and Samir Nasri went to Manchester City.
Kroenke, said the decision to allow Fabregas and Nasri to leave was Wenger's, who believed, particularly as far as the former was concerned, that it was right to let him to return to his boyhood club after they had courted him for three years.
“That was between Arsene and him,” the American added. “I like the kid but I'm not going to change his mind.
“Arsene made the decision. If we wanted to be really hard about it, we could have done but Arsene believed that it was the right way to do it.
“I also get it on Nasri. If we didn't do something on Nasri people would be looking at us next summer and saying, 'Why didn't you do this?'
“We bought in a lot of resources that we can use on other players. I honestly didn't make the decision on Nasri.
“Of course the board talks about these things but at the end of the day, that's for Arsene.”
Kroenke has little fear that Wenger's current crop of youngsters will do well, adding: “Maybe it is one of those times when we have to work our way through, maybe with some young players.
“Arsene has been really good at developing these guys, people like Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Jack Wilshere.
“There are some really good players that Arsene thinks can be special. Sometimes you go through periods like that.
“Arsene's our man. As an owner, that's who we put our confidence in.”
There has been widespread criticism of Wenger for not spending money on top quality players, but Kroenke said that in his three years on the board, he has supported considerable investment in the squad.
“We are not only developing money on players. If you look at the total wage spend, we are up there.
“I have never told anyone not to spend one dime,” he said. – Reuters
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/kroenke-defends-wenger-again-1.1148227
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Motsepe wants youngsters in Downs team
Mamelodi Sundowns president Patrice Motsepe would like to see more young players from the team's academy featuring regularly in the senior team.
|||Mamelodi Sundowns president Patrice Motsepe would like to see more young players from the team's academy featuring regularly in the soccer team's playing squad, he said on Friday.
“The focus is on identifying the best of players, investing in youth and attracting them to Sundowns which is very important,” he said.
At the moment, just four members of the squad come from the academy.
Motsepe was speaking at the announcement of the club's R500,000 a year sponsorship of the SA Football Association Tshwane development league for the next five years.
The Brazilians have earned the reputation of being the country's big spenders.
However, in the past decade, this formula has not always yielded results or silverware for the club, which is one of the country's Big Three alongside Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs.
“One of the mistakes that we made was the focus on the better-established players, even though at our level it is important, but what is even more important is investment in our youth,” said Motsepe.
“I was talking to the coach – Johan Neeskens – before going overseas and said it would be exciting seeing a 16-year-old being a regular in the senior team. It would send a strong message – to development .
“In relation to where our academy should be, there's still some way to go. The ultimate result will be seeing the players we developed in the starting 11.”
Another concern for the mining magnate was the dwindling attendance at Sundowns' home games despite the team featuring a number of high profile players in their squad.
Sundowns have moved their home games from Lucas Moripe Stadium, in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria, to Loftus, which is centrally located in the city.
Motsepe had wanted to move the club to their traditional home at HM Pitje Stadium, in Mamelodi, three seasons ago, but the move is still in limbo.
The recently refurbished venue, which was used as a training ground in last year's Soccer World Cup, has been deemed not yet complete.
“When we play Chiefs and Pirates, they come in numbers. I haven't been very happy, but I think its a responsibility for all of us,” Motsepe said.
“We had 4000 or 5000 at our last game. It must be much more so. We need to educate our supporters that we need them more when we – as a team – are not doing well.
“HM Pitje is key to us in long-term. The thing is, Loftus is very central because coming from Mamelodi, a supporter has to pay twice travelling to Atteridgeville and twice back again and we have decided to make travelling easy for the fans.” – Sapa
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/motsepe-wants-youngsters-in-downs-team-1.1148476
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Top cop?s plot to kill lover?s husband
South Africa’s police crime intelligence boss allegedly refused to be spurned by his ex-lover. So he plotted his revenge...
|||South Africa’s police crime intelligence boss allegedly refused to be spurned by his ex-lover.
So he plotted his revenge and expertly lured her husband to a spot in Vosloorus.
There he shot him dead, pumping bullets into his head, heart and lungs. And then he made sure the murder could never be investigated.
These are the details of the alleged decade-old love triangle contained in the State’s indictment against suspended police lieutenant-general Richard Mdluli, who appeared in the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court under heavy police guard yesterday, along with two other policemen and a court orderly.
The State argues that Mdluli, who commanded the Vosloorus Police Station’s detective branch between 1997 and 1999, got his junior officers to help him hunt down - and kill - his girlfriend’s new husband, Oupa Ramogibe.
Mdluli and his co-accused - court orderly Samuel Dlomo, 49, Colonel Nkosana Sebastian Ximba, 38, and Lieutenant-Colonel Mtunzi-Omhle Mthembeni Mtunzi, 52 - were charged with intimidation, three counts of kidnapping, two counts of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder.
Mdluli faces an additional charge of defeating or obstructing the course of justice.
They all worked at the Vosloorus Police Station detective branch between 1997 and 1999 under Mdluli.
The state claims Mdluli and Tshidi Buthelezi were teenage sweethearts.
They moved in together in Dawn Park in Boksburg and later had a baby.
But the relationship fizzled out and Buthelezi later met Ramogibe.
The pair married in July, 1998.
An enraged Mdluli found out about the wedding and obtained a copy of the couple’s marriage certificate.
According to the indictment, Ramogibe was also involved in another relationship with a Lerato Seballo.
“Mdluli visited the homes of Lerato Seballo, Maletsatsi Sophia Ramogibe and Jostinah Matohlang Ramogibe in an attempt to convince them by means of intimidation to put pressure on Tshidi Buthelezi and the deceased (Oupa Ramogibe) to end their relationship.
“Tshidi Buthelezi and the deceased went into hiding after they got married and it came to their knowledge that Mdluli was looking for them.
At one stage, they went to hide in Orange Farm,” the indictment states.
When he could not find them, Mdluli went to Buthelezi’s friend, Alice Manana, to find out where the couple were hiding.
The state claims he beat her up to get her to spill the beans.
Then he tried again, abducting her from her house in Windmill Park. He and his team took her to the station. They threatened to kill her.
Getting the information he wanted, Mdluli took Manana to Orange Farm.
“He found the couple Tshidi Buthelezi and Oupa Ramogibe.
“(Mdluli) then also abducted Buthelezi and her husband, Ramogibe and took them to the Vosloorus Police Station,” says the team.
Arriving there, he and his team laid into all three, kicking and punching them.
Mdluli had tried to kill Manana at her home on October 17, 1998. The state claims Manana was hospitalised.
On December 23, 1998, there was an attempt on Ramogibe’s life at the corner of Khaka and Khokonoko Streets in Windmill Park, while Ramogibe was driving Ximba’s Volkswagen Golf. It’s unclear why he was in the car of one of the men accused of killing him.
The next day, Ramogibe and Ximba went to the police station to open a docket of attempted murder.
Dlomo was assigned to the investigation, but the docket was closed in February the next year, when Dlomo swore that he couldn’t find Ramogibe to take his statement.
A week later he went to Maletsatsi Ramogibe - the deceased’s relative - asking her to tell him to go to the police station in connection with his case. Ramogibe received the message and went the same day - February 17, 1999.
He met Dlomo, who led him into an ambush.
A forensic report indicated that he was shot multiple times in the brain, lung and heart.
Neither Mdluli nor his detectives investigated Ramogibe’s murder after Ramogibe’s family lodged a formal complaint. Charges were only brought in March this year - 12 years later.
He was duly arrested.
During his bail application in April, Mdluli claimed the charges against him had been trumped up by former President Thabo Mbeki’s supporters to have him neutralised in the run-up to next year’s ANC elective conference in Mangaung.
Defence lawyers asked why charges had only been brought 12 years after the crime, and claimed the State had neither forensic nor ballistic evidence and had based its case on suspicion.
The State argued that it couldn’t bring charges earlier as Mdluli had used his considerable influence as commanding officer of the unit investigating the matter to make it disappear.
Dockets relating to the case were found in his safe but Mdluli denied knowledge of them.
The trial has been set down for a month in the High Court in Johannesburg from April 10 next year. Mdluli is out on bail of R20 000.
Last week Mdluli found himself in the Pretoria Commercial Crimes Court on an unrelated charge of fraud.
The state will argue he appropriated witness protection funds and falsified police claims to pay his girlfriends’ and their relatives’ salaries, buying them cars and putting them in safe houses after registering them as covert intelligence operatives.
In one case, investigators found that a Cape Town woman, whom they reportedly confirmed as his girlfriend, was registered as an operative and paid at least R18 000 a month.
The girlfriend’s cousin and brother were also “employed” by Crime Intelligence and were paid R8 000 a month.
The Saturday Star understands that investigators have found a similar situation in Roodepoort on the West Rand, where a woman with alleged links to Mdluli lives in a house meant for people under the witness protection programme.
Sources said Mdluli had the power to instruct subordinates to purchase moveable and immovable property to meet operational requirements.
He is due back in court on December 14. - Saturday Star
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/top-cop-s-plot-to-kill-lover-s-husband-1.1148555
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Stallion Motors to reward customers at Abuja motor show
STALLION Motors, has assured prospective customers of exceptional concession on various brands of automobiles marketed by the company during the forthcoming Abuja Motor Show.
Group Managing Director (Automobile) Mr. Pavir Singh, who recently gave the hint in Lagos, said that the company was participating at this year?s motor show to avail individuals, institutions and blue chip companies the opportunity to buy any of their choice brands at the right price.
He said: ?We have observed in our consistent study of the Nigerian automobile market that more discerning patrons are willing to drive modern and comfortable vehicles if assured affordable and affable pricing.?
The company said that it would from October 12 - 20, 2011 display no fewer than 57 various models out of the seven automobile brands marketed and distributed by the company. They include Ashok Leyland, Audi, Honda, Hyundai, Porsche, Skoda and Volkswagen brands.
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