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/ 13 February 2001
SOUTH African police have arrested an SA Airways (SAA) crew member on a flight from Buenos Aires in possession of more than R4m worth of cocaine. Police said customs officials found false compartments in the suitcases of the 26-year-old crew member at Johannesburg International Airport. When they searched the man they also found sachets of […]
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/ 13 February 2001
ANGUISHED relatives of the nine Japanese missing after a surfacing US submarine sank their trawler off Hawaii have asked US officials to raise the wreck which could now be the tomb of their loved ones. The nuclear-powered submarine USS Greeneville shot out of the depths directly underneath the 499-ton Ehime Maru late last week. Of […]
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/ 12 February 2001
ISLAMIC extremists slaughtered 26 people overnight near the town of Berrouaghia, south of Algiers, residents in the area said. The massacre took place in a shantytown called Cherata some 120km south of Algiers in an area where extremists of the hardline Armed Islamic Group (GIA) are active. Twenty-two bodies were found at the scene, most […]
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/ 12 February 2001
IMPALA Platinum Holdings (Implats), the world’s number two platinum producer, posted record half-year profits on strong metal prices and a weak rand, briefly boosting its share to a new high. Implats said diluted headline earnings per share, which excludes exceptional items and their tax effects, were R33.63 in the six months to December 31, 2000, […]
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/ 12 February 2001
GABONESE President Omar Bongo has accepted an invitation by the mediator in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ketumile Masire, to help the peace process. The development came just days ahead of a summit planned in the Zambian capital Lusaka bringing together all the warring parties in the DRC – Angola, Zimbabwe […]
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/ 12 February 2001
TELECOMS consortiums, including the state-run firm Celcom, have paid over $1bn for four mobile phone licences in Nigeria. Three foreign-backed consortiums, including MTN Nigeria, each paid the asking price of $285m a licence within the requisite 14 days since an auction held here last month by the state-run telecoms regulatory agency, the National Communications Commission […]
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/ 12 February 2001
DEMOCRATIC Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon has led a chorus of protest calling on President Thabo Mbeki to censure Public Safety Minister Steve Tshwete for a “vitriolic and extreme attack” on the Portuguese community regarding an anti-crime memorandum sent to the President. Leon described Tshwete’s hard-hitting response to the group’s memorandum, handed over after a […]
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/ 12 February 2001
ENVIRONMENTAL organisation Greenpeace has warned that the Cape of Good Hope could be turned into a ?nuclear highway?, with more than 80 nuclear shipments from Europe to Japan planned in the next 10 years. The warning came as a ship bearing a cargo of deadly plutonium fuel sailed around the Cape coast at the weekend […]
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/ 12 February 2001
SOUTH African attitudes to online shopping are maturing, with shoppers more prepared to make online buying part of their lifestyles – but this means retailers will have to better gear themselves up to understand the needs of the online consumer. That’s the word from Paddy Gray, director of PQ Africa’s payment gateway ECnet, who says […]