OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Tuesday HEALTH workers are fighting two separate outbreaks of cholera in northern Kwazulu Natal, which have killed two people and seen more than 1 000 contract the disease. An outbreak of the disease was reported in the rural Empangeni area in the northern part of the province in late August and […]

CAPE Town’s Cape Grace Hotel has been rated the finest hotel in the world at the Conde Nast Traveller’s 2000 Readers’ Choice Awards. Cape Grace won the award with a score of 95, the highest achieved in any category this year and the highest rating ever accomplished in the 13-year history of the poll of […]

SOUTH Africa’s Distillers Corporation is to buy Stellenbosch Farmers’ Winery in a deal worth R515m to create the country’s biggest wine and spirits group. The deal will be settled by the issue to SFW of 55.58 million new Distillers shares, valued at around 927 cents per share, and will mean that SFW will hold 28.4% […]

A CANDIDATE from the banned Muslim Brotherhood running in Egypt’s parliamentary elections said the authorities had arrested his campaign manager and 17 other Islamists. The Brotherhood has been banned since 1954, but has enjoyed intermittent periods of official tolerance. It cannot take part openly in political life, but informally nominates and supports candidates running as […]

ITALIAN oil and gas company Eni said it planned to raise its global oil production by 80% to 1.8m barrels per day (bpd) in four years, from the current output of 1.0m bpd. Eni Chairman Gian Maria Gros-Pietro said Nigeria, OPEC’s sixth largest oil exporter, was central to achieving its plan to nearly double oil […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday THE Pan Africanist Congress has denied claims of a division in its ranks on racial policies after being accused of fuelling racism through slogans and utterances by some of its leaders. PAC president Stanley Mogoba has strongly reiterated that the slogan ”one oppressor, one bullet”, used recently on a […]

ALISTER BULL, Prague | Tuesday GRUDGING debt relief and stingy overseas aid mean poor nations struggle to make themselves heard on the global stage and initiatives to ease poverty have not cut the odds stacked against their fragile economies, says South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. Speaking on the eve of the IMF/World Bank’s annual […]

THE South African government is likely to offer incentives for people to hold onto shares in state telecoms firm Telkom when it is floated next year, Public Enterprises director general Sivi Gounden said. ”We are looking at loyalty bonuses for shareholders,” he said. ”It is a model we think will revolutionise the culture of savings […]

A COUPLE have been publicly flogged in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state for failing to prove their allegations that the Islamic head of the village had sex with their daughter, a court official said. Haruna Dutsi and his wife, Aishat, were given 80 strokes of the cane each in a public spectacle in the village of […]

BLOODY attacks attributed to armed Islamic militants in Algeria multiplied last week, with local media reporting nearly 40 killings, as fears of a resurgence in violence haunted the country. Most of the attacks took place in the Mitidja region, the fertile agricultural plain near the capital and former stronghold of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). […]