Johannesburg | Monday DEMOCRATIC Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Monday that he has lodged a formal request with the Medical Research Council to secure its report on Aids-related deaths. “I have also requested the findings of a study on the economic impact of HIV/Aids from the Department of Finance,” Leon said in a prepared […]

SEVEN people, including tourists from the French island of Reunion, were killed on Monday when the light aircraft they were flying in crashed near the airport of Madagascar’s capital, pilots said. The Navajo PA 31 plane was approaching Antananarivo when the pilot reported problems first in one engine, then in the second, and subsequently crashed […]

ZAMBIAN President Frederick Chiluba has divorced from his wife of 33 years, Vera. The couple had been separated for more than a year before Chiluba (58) filed for divorce before a local court in Copperbelt province. Vera Chiluba told a conference of women in politics Monday that the divorce was a very sad development for […]

SOUTH African Airways (SAA) will resume scheduled flights between Johannesburg, Lagos and New York on Wednesday, the airline announced on Tuesday. This is because “the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos now meets (US) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) security requirements,” it said in a statement. The statement said that SAA flights from Johannesburg to Atlanta, Georgia, […]

US President George W Bush on Monday extended for another year sanctions imposed against rebels of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita). The White House said the president had concluded the rebel group continued to threaten the peace process in Angola. The 1993 sanctions banned arms and oil sales to Unita […]

THE IMF executive board on Thursday gave preliminary approval to a three-year credit worth $169-million for Sierra Leone to help the conflict-riven West African nation fight poverty. Final approval for the credit, called a poverty reduction and growth facility, will come with action by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund’s sister institution. The bank’s […]

Manila | Tuesday THE Philippine government will obtain a court order to freeze the assets of the Muslim Abu Sayaf kidnap-for-ransom group as ordered by US President George Bush, officials said on Tuesday. “The freeze of assets must go through court process,” President Gloria Arroyo’s representative Rigoberto Tiglao said. Bush issued an executive order on […]

DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s Gold Fields Ltd said on Monday it was eyeing more acquisitions in Australia and would spend up to $15-million a year searching for more gold on its two new mines in the western outback. Gold Fields announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement with Australia’s WMC […]

THE South African bourse edged higher at Wednesday’s open with mining giant Anglo American recovering from Tuesday’s drubbing. Market heavyweight Anglo hopped up 1,89% or 180 cents to R96,80, boosting the benchmark all-share index 0,23% to 7,899.1. Financial stocks also crept back on optimism that the central bank will cut interest rates this week after […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH African shares bounced 2,5% higher in mid-morning trade on Tuesday, inspired by Wall Street’s overnight rebound, but traders said weaker US futures could cap further advances. The benchmark all-share index gained 187 points to 7,568 at 0900 GMT, led by mining house Anglo American Plc. Anglo, the bourse’s biggest share, hurdled […]