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/ 18 February 2008
Akasia High School in Pretoria had a normal school day on Monday following last week’s double stabbing, the school’s headmaster said. Headmaster Frik van Wyk said pupils were back in class at about 9.30am after he had spoken to angry parents about the incident and assured them of their children’s safety.
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/ 18 February 2008
Johannesburg twins Dora Uys and Ethel Nembula will be among the world’s oldest twins when they turn 100 on Wednesday. Dora’s daughter Joyce Uys said about 150 family members will be gathering in Riverlea next weekend to celebrate the twins’ birthday, and a church service will be held in their honour on Wednesday.
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/ 18 February 2008
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s national budget on Wednesday should "turn talk into action", the Independent Democrats (ID) said on Monday. "Our economy is faced with a number of constraints, from the looming threat of a global recession … to the domestic energy crisis," ID spokesperson Schalk Lubbe said.
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/ 18 February 2008
Saving electricity and promoting energy efficiency must be a top priority in 2008, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa said in his State of the Province address on Monday. "The future was rosy on December 31 2007, but suddenly everyone is buying candles and researching property in Perth," Shilowa said in Johannesburg. He also discussed transport improvements planned for 2008.
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/ 18 February 2008
The recent turmoil in financial markets has not been confined to equities. Bonds have been the worst-performing asset class for two years running, returning a dismal 4,2% in 2007. Does this mean the tide is ready to turn, that it can’t get any worse and that investors should pile back into bonds again after two really bad years?
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/ 18 February 2008
The South African government is still deciding whether to recognise Kosovo as an independent country, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Monday. It is expected that the decision would have to be taken soon as it would again be discussed by the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday afternoon.
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/ 18 February 2008
Société Générale, at the centre of a huge trading scandal, began investigating trades executed by Jerome Kerviel months before his activities were exposed in January, a media report said on Monday. A senior executive of Fimat began investigating at the end of September deals executed by Fimat employee Moussa Bakir for Kerviel.
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/ 18 February 2008
An intense tropical cyclone is threatening to strike already flood-hit Mozambique on Tuesday, the country’s National Meteorological Institute (Inam) said on Monday. Inam said in a statement Cyclone Ivan, a category-four storm, had strengthened over the Indian Ocean and was likely to cause damage when it reached the coast.
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/ 18 February 2008
Police in Germany are hunting scammers who tried to obtain money from widows by falsely claiming that their recently deceased husbands had secretly bought mail-order pornography. The police, in the city of Bielefeld, said false invoices had been sent to relatives of deceased men all over Germany.
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/ 18 February 2008
The chance of a free and fair election in Zimbabwe is ”good” if all the agreements reached as part of the political facilitation process are implemented, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Monday. Zimbabwe is due to hold joint parliamentary and presidential elections on March 29.