“… We are one people with one destiny. The diversity of colours and languages once used to divide us are now a source of strength. We have been liberated from a system that held us all in its chains, free to be at last who and what we really are … [However,] political parties should […]
CEMENT giant Lafarge (SA) and Blue Circle Industries said on Friday they have acquired Ugandan cement maker Hima Cement through their joint ventures Bamburi Cement and Cemholding. Hima Cement has a factory 300km southwest of Kampala with “a potential annual capacity of 250000 tons a year,” Lafarge said in a statement. It said the Ugandan […]
TIMES Media Limited announced on Friday that it is to sell 30% of Dispatch Media — publisher of the East London Daily Dispatch — to black empowerment consortium, Isivuno, for R15-million. Times Media CEO Lawrence Clark said that Isivuno — an Eastern Cape investment consortium — will have to pay R2-million up front with the […]
ENVIRONMENTAL activists on Thursday demanded Eskom halt proposals to build new nuclear reactors until it has studied using alternatives sources of power. The Johannesburg branch of Earthlife Africa and a Cape Town based group affiliated to the Government By The People Green Party held separate protests on Wednesday specifically against the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor […]
WAYNE Ferreira, the sixth seed, faces Boris Becker in the tennis legend’s home town of Munich in the German Open on Tuesday. Becker leads 9-1 in matches against the South African.
SOME 4700 temporary teachers in the Northern Province, due to be axed at the end of the month, won a short reprieve on Friday when the provincial education department said their contracts will be extended by two months. The teachers were hired from July 1996. Education spokesman Bernard Matsane said, however, the department will uphold […]
AT least 11 people, including nine crack police officers, were killed in an ambush blamed on Unita rebels in southern Angola at the weekend, the private radio Ecclesia reported Monday. Several people were missing following the attack near Canjala in Benguela province on Sunday. The victims were travelling in a 16-truck convoy escorted by rapid […]
GLAXO WELLCOME, the pharmaceutical company which produces AZT and MTC, announced on Monday it will donate “starter packs” containing the drugs to healthcare workers exposed to possible HIV infection. Company spokeswoman Vicki Ehrich said the 5000 packs, worth R1-million, are designed for healthcare workers who may have been exposed to HIV through needle-pricking or other […]
RESCUERS were still searching on Tuesday for the two missing miners trapped underground for five days after an earthquake in Welkom in the Free State on Friday. Matjhabeng mine Spokeswoman Pam Mongoato said there was still no sign of Lawrence Molise Tsolo, 40, and John Befile Delekile, 53. “We will, however, not give up until […]
AN organised gang drove a truck through Fourways Mall in Johannesburg on Sunday morning before smashing it through a glass window of a shop and driving off with R750000 worth of clothing. Superintendent Chris Wilken said on Monday that 12 gunmen in three vehicles reversed a truck through a glass entrance to the mall and […]