MARK BENDEICH, London | Monday. The world’s third-biggest iron ore producer, Rio Tinto, triumphed in a bidding war for the number four, Australia’s North Ltd , but this has set the scene for a wider battle with iron ore consumers. Rio emerged victor when its only rival bidder, London-listed Anglo American, threw in the towel, […]
SOUTH Africa’s Competition Commission has raided the premises of Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) and its subsidiary Slagment Ltd as part of an investigation into alleged collusion. The competition watchdog said it had been unable to get information from the parties to facilitate its investigation, and ”as the Commission had reason to believe that key information […]
ZIMBABWE’S Finance Minister, Simba Makoni, says the projected budget deficit for 2000 has been raised to 14.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) from 3.8% due to a higher wage bill and defence spending. Makoni said the budget deficit was expected to soar because of an increase in the public sector wage bill, the government interest […]
The president of Burundi, Pierre Buyoya arrived in South Africa on Thursday for talks with former President Nelson Mandela aimed at resolving problems over a proposed peace plan for Burundi.
SOUTH Africa’s bid to overturn the award of the 2006 Soccer World Cup to Germany has been dismissed by FIFA – but the world body has pledged to embrace the principle of rotating future finals around the continents. FIFA’s executive committee unanimously supported a proposal by president Sepp Blatter that, from 2010, the finals would […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has ordered officials to toughen South Africa’s laws against child pornography, which is apparently flooding into the country via the Internet. Mbeki’s order follows the arrest last week of two media personalities for having a large amount of pornography in their home, allegedly bought over the Internet. Police have confirmed that a […]
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Shirley Kossick A Larger Silence by Yvonne Burgess (Penguin) Y vonne Burgess+s latest novel is, in effect, a sequel to her moving -alternative love story+, Anna and the Colonel (1998). It is not necessary to have read the earlier book to enjoy A Larger Silence, but the two together comprise the history of Rudyard Kipling […]
They+ve come through two by two – South African heavyweights trying to win the world title Gavin Evans When Lennox Lewis entered the ring to the sounds of Bob Marley+s We+re Gonna Chase Those Crazy Baldheads Out of Town, you couldn+t miss the message: no place for White Hopes in this hood. Francois Botha+s demise […]