OWN CORRESPONDENT, Abuja | Tuesday 09.00am. NIGERIA is to boost its electricity supply by some 450 megawatts in a deal with one of the Italian oil and gas majors already operational in the country. In a Memorandum of Understanding between Agip and the Nigerian government, the Italian oil giant will build and operate a power […]
THE former Azanian People’s Liberation Army (Apla) commander who ordered the killing of three people in Eikenhof, Gauteng in 1993, regarded children as legitimate targets. This emerged during Apla commander Phila Dolo’s testimony during his amnesty bid at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission this week. Zandra Mitchley, 38, Shaun Nel, 14, and his friend Claire […]
INVESTIGATORS are sifting through the wreckage of the Air France Concorde to determine what started the fire that caused it to crash moments after takeoff killing 109 people on board and four on the ground. This is the first major accident since the supersonic craft was first launched 31 years ago. The French ministry of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. MINISTER of Trade and Industry Alec Erwin says South Africa will not let itself be bullied into accepting the controversial wine and spirits agreement with the European Union, which again hangs in the balance in spite of a final agreement reached last month. One of the agreement’s contentious issues […]
A PRIEST has implicated former South African National Defence Force Minister, Joe Modise, in the killing and torturing of former ANC members. Rustenburg priest Tlhomedi Mfalapitsa, testifying during a Truth Commission hearing in Pretoria, accused Modise of ordering the deaths of several people and said that in one instance Modise had personally tortured an ANC […]
AROUND 20 people were injured, including two policemen, in clashes between African Christians and Egyptian Muslims after a car hit a Christian outside a church. Violence errupted and eventually hundreds of riot police were called in to restore order. The man hit by the car was given first aid on the scene while Sudanese and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Melbourne | Tuesday 09.00am. Rio Tinto Plc said it was studying the value of Japanese steel mill incentives behind Anglo American’s A$3.bn offer for North Ltd in deciding whether to outbid the rival miner. Anglo American Plc trumped Rio’s A$2.8bn hostile bid last week with the help of promises from North’s Japanese partners […]
ZIMBABWE said it intends to introduce health quarantines in the country’s prisons to curb the spread of communicable diseases among inmates. Under the plan, existing prison laws will be amended to provide for compulsory medical tests for all convicts, and give the prison service legal powers to confine inmates suffering from such diseases. Prison officials […]
WINSPEAR Diamonds, in its latest attempt to block an unsolicited takeover bid by De Beers, is challenging in court ”certain deficiencies” in the South African company’s C$259 million cash offer. Winspear appeared to be seeking more time in its battle against De Beers, the world’s biggest diamond company, and advised shareholders not to make any […]
SOUTH African information technology service company Usko Ltd said it planned to raise between R210m and R250m with a rights offer of new Usko shares. It said the proceeds of the offer would be used to reduce debt to strengthen its balance sheet and position it to capitalise on growth opportunities. The terms of the […]