Donna Block and Mungo Soggot A number of South Africa’s marginal mines could claw their way back to profitability in the near future as the surging gold price provides a lifeline to the ailing gold industry. Analysts say South Africa’s gold mines – the deepest, oldest and most expensive to operate in the world – […]
Could international aid be keeping Angola’s 25-year civil war going, asks Mercedes Sayagues in Malange Long lines of peasants, trucks loaded with maize bags: the Red Cross food aid distribution in the outskirts of Huambo is well organised. As it was last year. And the year before. As it has been for the past 20 […]
JOHANNESBURG police are looking for a Norwegian businessman who was last seen on Monday when he had breakfast at a hotel near Johannesburg International Airport. Superintendent Chris Wilken on Friday said Kjetil Moe, (65) arrived in South Africa on September 24 on a business trip. He was due to leave on Tuesday from Johannesburg via […]
John Higgins Review of the week Two slightly absurd questions: have you ever had your photo taken? Have you ever photographed someone else? Very likely, your answer is yes: at weddings, on holiday or just with the family; as a child, as a lover, as a friend. Like most successful industries, amateur photography is based […]
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/ 30 September 1999
TELFORD VICE, Nairobi | Wednesday 6.30pm. INDIA took a further step towards Sunday’s final with an ultimately routine victory over the enthusiastic but underwhelming hosts at Nairobi Gymkhana on Wednesday. South Africa should have equally little trouble subduing Kenya on Thursday, but they would be well advised to rack up the runs at as furious […]
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/ 30 September 1999
FINANCIAL services company i capital on Wednesday announced that it had acquired 30% of Rivonia-based software development house MIP Holdings. I capital director Craig Lyons, who declined to disclose the amount involved, said the transaction was done through i capital’s private equity fund, the Growth Fund I. Lyons said his company was attracted to MIP […]
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/ 30 September 1999
BRETT Liddle has taken a three shot lead in the first round of the Royal Swazi Sun Classic. Liddle shot a brilliant nine-under par 63 on a wet first day. “I’ve never been so calm on a golf course in all my life,” said Liddle, who is hunting his second Vodacom Tour victory this year […]
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LIBYA on Wednesday warned that unfettered economic globalisation will subject developing nations to corporate control and turn them into mere consumer markets for rich countries. Mohammad Bait Elmal, secretary of the Libyan general people’s committee for finance, told the annual assembly of the World Bank and IMF in Washington that the free flow of goods, […]
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A LOCAL magazine has apologised to Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Valli Moosa, (42) for publishing a photograph of him in the nude. Moosa became the first South African politician to appear naked in a magazine — but not by design according to his office. “The minister considers the matter to be closed,” his office […]