Yearly Archives: 2001

Mail & Guardian reporter Sasol’s corporate social investment (CSI) strategy goes beyond a moral commitment to poverty alleviation ”it represents the earnest desire on our part to understand and address the needs of underprivileged communities in which we have an involvement”, says Masechaba Mape, manager: corporate social investment. Sasol therefore aims to take a leading […]

THURSDAY will see a revamped version of Finance Week hit the streets. Editor Rikus Delport said the publication would concentrate on investment and company strategy. ”Doing so is a recognition of the changing ways in which South Africans work and their own realisation that wealth creation is everyone’s own responsibility”. He said that ”this is […]

STUART GRAHAM, Durban | Thursday MEMBERS of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) at steel and metal company BHP Billiton’s mines in Hillside and Alusaf Bayside in Richards Bay will not be allowed to embark on a solidarity strike on Thursday. London-based BHP Billiton made an urgent application to the Durban Labour Court […]

A NORTHERN Province chief magistrate appeared briefly in the Pietersburg Regional Court on Friday on charges of theft, SABC radio news reported. The case against 47-year-old Makhanya Ronald Shimange was postponed to January 18 and his bail of R20 000 was extended. In terms of his bail conditions, Shimange was prohibited from communicating with staff, […]

GOLD FIELDS Limited has granted the ARM/Harmony joint venture an exclusive option to negotiate the possible disposal of the Saint Helena and Oryx mines. Gold Fields said in a statement on Tuesday that a discussion was held about providing the partial funding requirements to the joint venture. Harmony in return has granted Gold Fields an […]

analysis Shamil Jeppie The putative war between Islam and the West that is recycled these days in the media is a product of the fertile imaginations of ”Islamic” and ”Western” ideologists. If this ”clash of civilisations” has any history, then it is very recent. What appears to be a fact of life with a centuries-old […]

Thuli Nhlapo The apartheid system was inhumane, but some people have managed to dig very deep to find good in the dismantling of family structures. When men from a remote rural Mdlankomo village in Mpumalanga had no choice but to leave the tourist dorpie to work in gold and coal mines, scores of women and […]

Makurdi, Nigeria | Thursday RAMPAGING soldiers continued reprisal attacks on Wednesday in some parts of Nigeria’s central Benue State, where they have already killed more than 100 people, a leading government official said. The attacks focused on the town of Zaki Biam, from where 19 soldiers were abducted and subsequently slain by militiamen two weeks […]

Washington | Wednesday THE probability of the US economy tumbling into recession sharply increased in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, but a rebound is likely in 2002, the White House chief economic adviser said this week. The US economy is likely to contract slightly, Glenn Hubbard told reporters, noting that “even a fairly […]