August 11, 2008 by asgard14.

TWO taxi drivers may be executed after they were convicted of raping, robbing and murdering an Australian tourist within hours of her arrival in India four years ago.

Dawn Griggs, a 59-year-old writer and educator from Byron Bay, landed at Delhi airport in March 2004 to join a meditation course. She arranged for a prepaid taxi to drive her from the airport to a suburban ashram.

Instead, she was taken to a deserted field near the airport and murdered by the drivers, Jyotish Prasad and Ashish Kumar. It is common for taxi drivers in India to have an associate in the front seat with them while they are working. An autopsy found Ms Griggs had been gagged, strangled and stabbed.

Prasad, 28, was arrested soon after the body was found and Kumar, 31, was detained four days later. Both have been in jail since. They were initially charged with murder and robbery. The charge of rape was added after further medical evidence was received.

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August 11, 2008 by asgard14.

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August 11, 2008 by asgard14.

The majority of companies going under were reported to be in:
* The financing sector
* Insurance
* Real estate, and
* Business services

THE bleak economic situation is the main culprit behind the high company liquidation numbers recorded by Statistics SA in June.

According to Stats S A , the total number of liquidations recorded for June increased by 28.7 percent from 181 to 233 when compared with June 2007.

The most liquidations in the period between January to June were in the financing, insurance, real estate business services with 500 voluntary closures and 42 compulsory liquidations. The wholesale and retail trade, catering and accommodation sectors came in a close second with 444 voluntary liquidations and 55 compulsory liquidations.
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August 11, 2008 by asgard14.

Johannesburg - A survey by TNS Research has found that a new low of 49% of metropolitan adults feel positive about South Africa and its future compared with 60% in February. The reading in February was then a new low and the yearly average in 2007 was 66%. Analysis by race group shows that while blacks are generally the most positive, in the quarter to June their figure also shows its largest drop since 2004, from 73% to 63%.

While whites generally have figures around the mid-40s (except for 2005 when, for a time, they rose to 59%), the February reading showed a dramatic drop to 31%, this further declining to 21% in June.

The figures for coloureds have been trending downwards slowly since 2005 but now sit at 32%, also a new all time low. The Indian/Asian figures are more erratic, also showing a slow decline since 2005, reaching a new low of 34% now.

Analysis by area shows that, in June 2008, optimism was highest in the Johannesburg and Bloemfontein areas (69% and 63% respectively) and lowest in Cape Town (35%), with the Eastern Cape showing the largest drop.
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