Yearly Archives: 2001

CANADIAN pop singer Celine Dion, Spanish soccer club Real Madrid and British budget airline EasyJet have all triumphed over ”cybersquatters” who used their names on Internet websites. The United Nations copyright agency WIPO said these were among a raft of new cases decided over the past two weeks by its arbitrators – who have already […]

SOUTH Africa’s Anglovaal Mining and the Industrial Development Corp (IDC) are planning a board shakeup at steel group Iscor that would see the removal of Iscor executive chairman Hans Smith. Anglovaal and IDC said in a joint statement that they proposed to remove and replace six directors from Iscor’s board. Anglovaal Mining (Avmin) and IDC […]

METALS and mining group Billiton expects to start a feasibility study in late March on how to develop its Spence copper project in Chile. Work on the study will probably begin ”sometime at the end of March and will be a year’s duration,” Billiton representative Marc Gonsalves said. Expected production and investment figures are still […]

SOUTH Africa’s Gold Fields has withdrawn a cautionary statement to shareholders regarding its proposed merger with Canada’s Franco Nevada. Gold Fields Chairman Chris Thompson said earlier this month that the $3.7bn merger was ”all but dead” after the South African government blocked the deal last year. A Gold Fields representative said that the withdrawal of […]

US President George Bushs head should be set in stone next to that of his father at the entrance to one of Baghdads top hotels so Iraqis can walk over them, a newspaper said this week, to make a family photo album which Iraqis can walk over to better ridicule them. This is what arrogant […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Saturday SOUTH African Airways (SAA) head Coleman Andrews will step down on April 1, over a year before his contract ends, in order to avoid a leadership change in the midst of privatisation, a government representative said on Friday. ”It simply is impossible to do a listing in the middle of […]

IN one of his periodic comments about his age and mortality, Cuba’s revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, 74, said on Saturday that the ”revolution” will continue after his death. ”Men die, but the party is immortal,” Castro said in a speech, excerpted on state radio on Saturday. Castro, who heads the Communist Party, used the speech […]

THE UN Security Council is considering a commission’s recommendation that sanctions be imposed on countries found to be intentionally violating the UN embargo against Angola’s UNITA rebels. The commission’s recommendation – one of several made at the end of December – is aimed at blocking UNITA from trading diamonds mined from areas it controls for […]

AN artist can continue using Barbie dolls in his photographic renderings, some of which depict dolls posed in sexual positions, a federal appeals court has ruled. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision denying a request by toymaker Mattel Inc to bar Tom Forsythe from using the doll in his photographs and […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, AFP, Maputo | Saturday THE South African Air Force could embark on a rescue mission to Mozambique, where more than 40 people have died and 77_000 have lost their homes, a year after the country was ravaged by floods, the Saturday Star reports. Foreign Affairs Director-General Sipho Pityana said: There is no question […]