SHARES in BOE Ltd vaulted on Friday on rumours that the banking and financial services group would announce details of a broad-ranging restructure as early as next week. Traders said regular talk that the group could become the target of a takeover was also swirling again. BOE was not immediately available for comment. At midday […]
EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal has won the 2000 Stockholm Water Prize for his “visionary” leadership in water resource management, the prize committee announced on Wednesday. Asmal, a former minister for water affairs and forestry, was awarded the prize “in recognition of his unprecedented efforts in the development of vision, legislation and practice in the field […]
THE African National Congress called on all South Africans to intensify the struggle against racism in its message for Human Rights Day on Tuesday. Human Rights Day marks the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre, in which 69 black anti-apartheid demonstrators were murdered by police in 1960. “Forty years after the Sharpeville massacre we mark Human […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Wednesday 11.10am ANGLO American Plc, reporting its first set of annual results as a London-listed mining company, said on Wednesday that 1999 headline profits rose 13% to $1,30-billion, buoyed by platinum and diamonds. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast a headline figure — which is before a $410-million exceptional gain — […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.50pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange closed firmer on Monday on fresh appetite for resource stocks following their recent sharp losses. At close of trade the all share index was up 0,22% at 8014. Interest in mining giant Anglo American Plc ahead of its results on Wednesday and shift into rand-hedge […]
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OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port of Spain | Tuesday 11.05am. THE West Indies’ fast bowling quartet rolled back the years and fired their side to a sensational 35-run, come-from-behind triumph over Zimbabwe at Queen’s Park Oval on the final day of the inaugural Test on Monday. Purposeful bowling from Franklyn Rose, who led the way with four […]
SEMEGAL’S veteran opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade won presidential elections on Monday to end 40 years of Socialist Party rule in the traditionally stable West African country. President Abdou Diouf, who has held office for 19 years, conceded defeat to Wade in the vote after a stream of disastrous results from the big towns where the […]
THE Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Mohammed Valli Moosa will highlight the importance of environmental monitoring and the weather in particular, at the World Meteorological Day Celebration in Pretoria on Thursday 23 March. This celebration marks 140 years of weather monitoring in South Africa and the 50TH Anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization. It […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 6.00pm. AT least nine people have drowned and thousands more have been left homeless in renewed countrywide flooding since the weekend. In the Qwa Qwa region of the Free State, at least 420 families have been left homeless and provincial authorities say they fear further dage and fatalities in the […]