SOUTH Africa’s Digicore Holdings Ltd is on track to achieve its forecast turnover of R300m by June 2001 on the back of a number of large orders, including a R150m order from Debis Fleet Management. In August Digicore had reported poor earnings for the year to June 30, 2000, blaming restructuring costs and tough trading […]

SOUTH Africa’s Impala Platinum (Implats) has recovered a R22m, 30-tonne shipment of platinum group metals matte, which was stolen by hijackers, at a scrapyard warehouse in Alberton. The matte – an intermediate form of metal which has the appearance of granulated, heavy black powder – was being shipped to the company’s Springs refinery from its […]

sunday, 1.15pm I’m at my mom’s house, enjoying a traditional Cape Flats lunch: yellow rice, beetroot, sweetcorn, overcooked carrots, roast potatoes, roast chicken, roast lamb – you know, the usual. I hungrily stare at the prepared feast and momentarily experience feelings of guilt about the fact that I’m not vegetarian, thinking how devastated some of […]

ALISTAIR THOMSON, Abidjan | Friday IVORY Coast’s army ruler General Robert Guei has vowed to stand down if he loses Sunday’s presidential election – but claims have already been levelled that soldiers loyal to Guei are trying to rig the poll. Guei, who is running against four other hopefuls, appealed to the people to ignore […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS and REUTERS, Johannesburg | Thursday SOUTH African farms will descend into chaos unless the government speeds up its process of land reform to satisfy the demands of landless blacks, lobby groups and lawyers have warned. Andile Mngxitama of the National Land Committee (NLC), a group of civil organisations working for land rights, said […]

MOZAMBIQUE has urged the United States to release $55m it pledged last May to rebuild an important railway that was damaged by devastating floods, the Mozambican transport minister said this week. “It is very important that those funds are released as quickly as possible,” Transport and Communications Minister Tomas Salomao told a press conference. The […]

THE Nigerian government has banned the militant group blamed for three days of bloody ethnic violence in Lagos and ordered its leaders to be arrested. Information Minister Jerry Gana told television that law enforcement agencies had been told to detain the leaders of the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC) over the killings of more than 100 […]

REUTERS, Lome | Thursday THE Organisation of African Unity (OAU) has followed the lead of the United Nations in withdrawing all monitors and observers from Ivory Coast’s presidential election this weekend in protest at the exclusion of most major candidates. Critics both in Ivory Coast and abroad say the poll is unrepresentative after the supreme […]

MINING magnate Harry Oppenheimer, whose fortune was estimated at R30bn, has left a will that refers to wealth of only R307m, The Star newspaper reported. Further vast wealth is believed to have been left in trust before he died. The former chairman of the Anglo American Corporation and De Beers died in August aged 92. […]

SOUTH Africa and China have signed an agreement on the exchange of medical and public health expertise during a visit by Chinese Public Health Minister Zhang Wenkang. Zhang and his South African counterpart Manto Tshabalala-Msimang endorsed the cooperation pact, which encompasses primary health care, training and family and traditional medicines. South Africa and China reestablished […]