Yearly Archives: 2001

The Belgian brewing giant Interbrew is preparing an offer for rival South African Breweries of more than four billion pounds (6.4 billion euros, 5.7 billion dollars), the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. – AFP

THE Nigerian central labour movement on Tuesday insisted on the implementation of an agreed 25% wage increase for public sector workers from next year. Following a slight increase in the price of fuel at the pumps, the Nigerian government and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) had in June last year agreed that workers’ salaries be […]

THE IMF and the World Bank have agreed to provide Tanzania with a total three billion dollars in debt relief under an initiative for the world’s most indebted nations, the two organizations announced on Tuesday. Tanzania is the fourth to qualify for debt reduction under the World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Heavily Indebted Poor […]

THE South African taxpayer will pay less than half the multi-million rand cost of next year’s Johannesburg Earth summit, Environment Minister Valli Moosa said on Tuesday. He told journalists at a briefing in Cape Town that the United Nations (UN) conference, properly known as the World Summit on Sustainable Development, would probably cost from R500 […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday THE directors of the South African Reserve Bank said on Monday they would propose to shareholders that the bank be delisted from the JSE. They said that since the introduction of the new listings requirements during 2000 it had become evident that the bank’s role and structure did not justify its listing. […]

Washington | Wednesday ASTRONOMERS for the first time have directly detected the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system, using the Hubble space telescope, Nasa announced on Tuesday. The roughly Jupiter-sized planet is located in the constellation Pegasus some 150 light years from Earth. It orbits around a star similar to our sun, labelled […]

Dar es Salaam | Wednesday THE leaders of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are expected to meet on Friday to launch a regional parliament and an East African court of justice as their countries edge closer to a single market and political union. Each of the three members of the East African Community (EAC) has nominated […]

ZINGISILE MAPAZI, Johannesburg | Wednesday PART of the crisis currently taking place in Zimbabwe emanated from wrong economic policies over the past two decades, President Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday. He told guests at the launch of the Centre for Education in Economics and Finance Africa in Johannesburg that, likewise, the rampant lawlessness taking place […]

TWO babies that were raped in the Northern Cape recently were recovering well at hospitals in the province on Tuesday. Baby Tshepang, who was raped and sodomised allegedly by six men in Upington, was recovering well, said Kimberley Hospital representative Dr Hamid Shabbir. He said the surgeons were waiting for the girl’s wounds to heal […]