OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.35pm FORMER president Nelson Mandela warned on Wednesday that a proposed consumer-led boycott of diamonds could ravage southern African economies. ”If there is a boycott of diamonds, the economies of especially two countries, Namibia and Botswana, will collapse and we want to avoid that,” Mandela said. Human rights organisations such […]

MOZAMBIQUE has cancelled plans for a massive game park and resort complex dreamed up by a now-deceased American millionaire businessman, James Blanchard III. Blanchard, who died earlier this year, had planned to raise $800-million for the project. The elaborate scheme, approved by the government in 1996, called for a five-star hotel, floating casinos and a […]

EGYPTOLOGISTS have found limestone inscriptions they describe as the earliest known examples of the use of an alphabet, one which takes a step from hieroglyphics toward a Semitic language like Arabic or Hebrew. John Coleman Darnell, an Egyptologist at Yale University, and his wife Deborah, a doctoral student, discovered the inscriptions on cliffs west of […]

EGYPTOLOGISTS have found limestone inscriptions they describe as the earliest known examples of the use of an alphabet, one which takes a step from hieroglyphics toward a Semitic language like Arabic or Hebrew. John Coleman Darnell, an Egyptologist at Yale University, and his wife Deborah, a doctoral student, discovered the inscriptions on cliffs west of […]

INTERNET service provider M-Web Holdings Limited announced on Sunday that its revenue for the six months to September 30 grew by over 130% to R92-million. A combination of agressive marketing and its growing internet branding saw after-tax losses fall from R189-million in its year-end to March, to R133-million for the six months to September. The […]

Former president Nelson Mandela persuaded striker Philemon Masinga to face Sweden on November 27 in Pretoria.

GOLD moved towards $300 an ounce on Thursday in Europe, with dealers predicting prices could reach this level by Friday. The $300 level is the strike price for a large number of call options. Platinum and palladium continued to move higher driven by ongoing supply concerns from Russia a major producer of both precious metals […]

Australian Prime Minister John Howard bestowed his country’s highest honour, on former President Nelson Mandela.

CELLPHONE network Vodacom on Sunday announced it is slashing the tariffs of its pre-paid package, Vodago, by almost half for calls made between 8pm and 7am — with immediate effect. “Some 1,1-million active Vodago users stand to benefit from the longest pre-paid off-peak hours in South Africa,” said Vodacom’s managing director Andrew Mthembu. The Vodago […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Tuesday 7.20pm BRITISH gay activist Peter Thatchell was on Tuesday charged for threatening Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe during a private visit to London late last month, Scotland Yard said. Tatchell (47) of the gay rights association OutRage! jumped in front of Mugabe’s limousine as he was leaving his hotel on October […]