Yearly Archives: 2001

SA retailer New Clicks Holdings this week forecast a 14% year-on-year rise in its December 2000 sales. ”The festive season sales weren’t too bad, said New Clicks Chief Executive Officer Trevor Honneysett. New Clicks is a discount retailer of toiletries, cosmetics, gifts, recorded music and other merchandise on a cash basis. Honneysett announced that the […]

EMELIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH African stocks pranced to an 11-month peak on Monday, buoyed by further gains in technology, media and telecoms issues as well as continuing strength in platinum shares. Mobile phone operator M-Cell leapt 6.60% to end at R26.65 on healthy volumes of 1.1m shares, pushing up controlling shareholder Johnnic 5.22% […]

A NIGERIAN traditional chief, his wife and four others have become the first to be charged under a new law against sex trafficking, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Chief Saka Omo-Lawal Osula, a prominent chief in Benin City, appeared in court last Tuesday alongside his wife and the four others, the newspaper National Interest said. […]

AN Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the retrial of 31 businessmen and politicians who were given jail sentences last year in the biggest corruption scandal in two decades. The cessation court annulled the sentences linked to $470m dollars in fraudulent loans after defence lawyers argued that police had pursued their clients without Central Bank approval, […]

THE managing editor of a newspaper in Congo has been arrested over an article calling for the overthrow of “the dictator” Denis Sassou Nguesso, police said late Saturday. Publication of Richard Ntsana’s Flambeau newspaper was also suspended on Saturday as Ntsana was taken to the central police station in Brazzaville for a “hearing,” police said […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday CAPE Towns Anglican Church Archbishop, the Reverend Njongonkulu Ndungane, has spoken out against a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) plan to get big business to contribute to a fund for victims of apartheid, saying it was governments responsibility. Ndungane was reacting to a statement by TRC compensation and rehabilitation […]

TWO pet chimpanzees from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo were transferred to the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage in Zambia on Sunday because of fears that their owner would not be able to care for them. Brenda Santon from Friends of the Chimpanzee in South Africa said Sinki, a seven-year-old male, and Kambo, a five-year-old female, […]

CAPE Verde’s opposition African Independence Party (PAICV) claimed victory at Sunday’s general election, but the early official results showed a race too close to call after a day marked mainly by chaos. “According to the data we have received, we are already certain of victory,” PAICV campaign director Adao Richa said. With the vote count […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday A REPORT warning that Aids would become the leading cause of death among teachers this year was deeply flawed and based on questionable assumptions, Education Minister Kader Asmal said on Sunday. Speaking on the SABC programme Newsmaker, Asmal said the report was not a department document, and that he rejected […]