IT group Dimension Data (DiData) has proposed dual primary listings on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges for its international assets, estimated to be worth about $3,5-billion. Business Day reports that DiData chairman Jeremy Ord said this will be an interim measure pending greater clarity from government on moving DiData’s domicile offshore. Although a primary […]

SOUTH Africa and Kuwait are eager to boost their military cooperation, Defence Minister Patrick Lekota said on Monday, shortly before the end of a three-day visit to the emirate. He said the two countries are convinced of the need to draw up and sign such a cooperation agreement, the official KUNA news agency reported. Lekota […]

CHINESE parliament chairman Li Peng on Tuesday pledged to continue assistance to Kenya, especially through joint ventures in exploiting natural resources. Speaking at a meeting with Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, Li said that as soon as China becomes a member of the World Trade Organisation, it will work closely with other developing countries. Li, […]

BRITAIN’s Princess Anne landed in Botswana on Tuesday on the first leg of a three-nation African goodwill tour. Wearing a green suit buttoned high at the neck, Princess Anne was met by Foreign Affairs Minister Mompati Merafhe and British High Commissioner John Wilde. Merafhe stood in for President Festus Mogae who is at a summit […]

THE Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee meeting kicked off in Pretoria on Wednesday with a committment by Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni that the committee will provide more information later in the day on how it calculates its monetary policy stance. At its meeting last month, the first since it assumed its new form, the […]

ALLEGED mafioso Vito Palazzolo has turned the tables on the Western Cape police and laid a charge of defamation of character against police management for a report last year that named him as head of the Western Cape mafia. The Cape Times reports that Palazzolo has filed a civil action in the Cape High Court, […]

A PORT Elizabeth man has been kicked and punched to death for stealing a bag of carrots. The man, named only as Michael, was found dead on the pavement by ambulance personnel, police spokesman Johan Buys said. The murdered man was pursued by the owner of a vegetable stall and his son after he allegedly […]

ZAMBIAN police have shot and killed one murder suspect and arrested another in their enquiry into the killing of a son of former president Kenneth Kaunda, Home Affairs Minister Peter Machungwa said. The minister also said that a fifth suspect in the November 4 killing of Major Wezi Kaunda is still on the run. Machungwa […]

A GROUP of Mpumalanga women were arrested on Monday for walking naked along a road in protest against a local chief. Twenty-four unclothed women, carrying four babies, marched along the Jeppe’s Reef road to the kraal of Chief Matsam Shongwe, demanding land to grow mealies. Schoemansdal station commissioner Captain Magdarine Nel on Tuesday said the […]

THE Bank of England has frozen several bank accounts belonging to Angolan Unita rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, in an attempt to prevent him from continuing to wage war in the country. The British government has called on the international banking community to follow its lead.