Yearly Archives: 2001

Johannesburg | Tuesday THE proposed merger between New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) and Kagiso Media Limited (Kagiso) has been approved unconditionally by the Competition Commission, it was announced on Monday. Nail is listed on the JSE as a public company and has interests in number of markets including radio broadcasting, print media, and investments. Kagiso […]

Bisho | Tuesday AT least 52 initiates were receiving treatment for circumcision complications in hospitals in the Eastern Cape, hospital officials said on Monday. At Hewu Hospital in Whittlesea, 20 young men were being treated, while Cecilia Makiwane Hospital (CMH) in Mdantsane was treating 17. One of the boys was still in the intensive care […]

A R10-million fraud involving some Eastern Cape public works department officials and contractors has been exposed, the department said on Monday. Roads and public works MEC Phumulo Masualle said four department officials, some companies and professional services providers to the department had allegedly been running a fraud network. Four different companies had their contracts with […]

EGYPTIAN police said on Monday they had arrested a gang which robbed gullible victims of their cash by pretending to change their Egyptian pounds into US dollars with the aid of genies. The four members of the gang gained 150 000 pounds, the equivalent of $35 295, in just a few days, the police said. […]

Bern | Monday A US attorney who played a key role in compensation claims by Holocaust survivors against Swiss banks is seeking plaintiffs to sue Swiss banks which financed South Africa’s former apartheid regime, a Swiss newspaper said on Sunday. Attorney Ed Fagan placed advertisements in South African newspapers this weekend asking for possible victims […]

OLA AWONIYI, Abuja | Monday NIGERIA will on Monday launch Africa’s first trial programme to use cheap, imported, generic Aids drugs to combat the disease sweeping the continent, officials said on Sunday. Aiming to tackle the effects of an epidemic now affecting almost 3,5-million Nigerians, and 28,1-million Africans, the programme will start in 18 federal […]

Harare | Monday FOREIGN ministers from six southern African countries are due in Harare on Monday to audit developments in Zimbabwe’s controversial land reforms, a government representative said on Sunday. The meeting is a follow-up to a Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit of heads of states held three months ago as part of an […]

THREE people were killed outside the Arthur Nathan municipal pool in Bloemfontein during a shooting over the weekend, Free State police said on Monday. Captain Ernest Mayiki said a man shot dead a woman soon after they got out of a taxi around 7.30pm on Sunday. A second man was wounded when he intervened. During […]

Beijing | Monday CHINA and South Africa will launch a new forum for dialogue on relations during the ongoing three-day visit by South African President Thabo Mbeki, state press said on Monday. Mbeki, the first South African president to visit China since diplomatic ties between the two countries were established in 1998, will jointly inaugurate […]

A JAPANESE woman who apparently set out to find one million dollars in ransom money depicted in the hit comedy-thriller ”Fargo” may have died from exposure, Japanese media said on Monday. The body of the woman, a resident of Tokyo, was found in the Detroit Lakes area of Minnesota on November 15, Jiji Press said, […]