RESCUE workers have recovered the bodies of all 143 passengers and crew from the Gulf Air plane which crashed into the Gulf off Bahrain last night, a Bahraini civil defence official said. The Gulf Air Airbus A320, on a flight from Cairo, crashed into shallow waters off the Gulf with an engine on fire as […]

AVIS Southern Africa Ltd, the South African-based auto rental group, has completed its takeover bid of Avis businesses in Norway and Sweden. Avis, which has other numerous offshore operations, said it had also appointed Pat O’Brien as its Oslo-based chief executive of the two Scandinavian units, while current chief executive Paul Ramm would take over […]

TRANSPORT group Roadcorp Ltd said it had asked the Johannesburg bourse to suspend trade in its shares after its bankers, Nedbank, demanded payment it owes them. ”The directors of Roadcorp have received a written confirmation from its main commercial bankers, Nedbank, in terms of which Nedbank withdraws its support of Roadcorp and the Roadcorp subsidiaries […]

INDUSTRIAL group Barlow Ltd said it planned to change its name to Barloworld, if shareholders gave their approval. ”The Barlow strategy is to develop an integrated industrial brand management company and, through the introduction of value-based management, enhance shareholder value,” chief executive Tony Phillips said. He said the Barlow name was not unique internationally and […]

ELLIS MNYANDU, Johannesburg | Thursday METALS and minerals group Iscor Ltd reported a sharp drop in headline earnings after taking a knock from losses at its Saldanha Steel joint venture. The group, which is South Africa’s biggest steel maker, forecast higher profits in the current year to June 2001 amid expected gains from iron ore […]

THREE German skinheads on trial for murder have denied they intended to kill a Mozambican man despite admitting to the attack that led to his death, court officials said. Two 16-year-olds, Frank Mietbauer and Christian Richter, and 24-year-old Enrico Hiltricht went on trial this week for the racist murder of 39-year-old Alberto Adriano, who died […]

TAIWAN’S president, Chen Shui-bian, will cut short the final leg of his African tour following a typhoon which killed at least 11 people at home. Chen told a news conference before leaving the West African nation of Burkina Faso for nearby Chad that his visit there would be limited to the signing of a joint […]

A CAPE Town policewoman has been shot and wounded while getting off a bus in Nyanga, one of the city’s townships where taxi operators have targeted buses in a bitter turf war, say police. The 24-year-old constable was hit in the leg and side, but police say it is not clear whether the shooting was […]

POLICE have used stun grenades to disperse an angry mob in Palm Springs, near Vereeniging, after the local municipality began seizing property from rates and services payment defaulters. Angry residents claimed the Vereeniging municipality was not providing them with services. The municipality’s tough stance was prompted by arrears of about R200m and the fact that […]

THE Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Jean-Marie Compaore, has asked 128 African refugees holed up in the city’s cathedral for three months to move out. The archbishop said in a letter that “the grounds for the hospitality offered no longer existed” and that their stay in the church had “become an additional obstacle to the resolution of […]