THE New National Party’s federal executive started a ‘strategy’ meeting at an undisclosed venue outside Cape Town at 10am on Monday. NNP spokeswoman Juli Kilian said it is a routine planning meeting which had been scheduled some time ago, with the party’s election performance and its future role on the agenda.
NAMPOWER, Namibia’s power utility, has successfully completed the first phase of its billion-dollar interconnector of 900km that extends from Aries near Kenhardt in South Africa to the Kokerboom sub-station near Keetmanshoop. The company says project teams diligently worked against time and other constraints to construct Africa’s first power line that supports not only the latest […]
NIGERIA’S fledgling petrochemical and natural gas sectors will be expanded to be on a par with the oil sector within four years, President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Friday. Setting out economic plans, Obasanjo told legislators at a joint sitting of the new Nigerian parliament that these two under-developed areas of the oil industry would be […]
THE son of a prominent member of vigilante group People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) was shot and seriously wounded while he was playing soccer at the Tafelsig sports grounds in Mitchell’s Plain on Sunday. Police spokesman Captain Jacques Wiese on Monday said two men, allegedly members of the Americans gang, shot Moegamat Heuwel (17) […]
The entire editorial, sales and supplements staff of De Kat magazine have resigned, citing financial problems at Penta Publications as the reason for their action. The group of 15 employees said although they were committed to producing a quality Afrikaans magazine, the current financial situation at Penta Publications make it impossible to meet that objective.
ZIMBABWE’S labour leaders Thursday warned that government’s decision to increase the price of fuel by up to 32% will hurt workers. Petrol price increased by 27%, diesel by 32% and aviation fuel by between 6% and 8%, on Thursday. It is the second hike in eight months. Further price rises will be effected after every […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: FOLLOWING an injury scare, South African soccer midfielder Brendan Augustine has been passed fit to take his place in South Africa’s line-up for their opening Group C encounter with World Cup hosts France on Friday. Augustine has been suffering with a groin injury and was examined by a specialist in Paris with national […]
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found a 5000-year-old necropolis in Egypt’s northern Delta region containing 100 funerary chambers and unique flint objects, a Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) official said Monday. Cosmetic boxes, flint knives and terra cotta vases with drawings of the fish-goddess Hat-mayhet were found in the funerary chambers which date back to the 1st and […]
EASTERN Cape-based tourism and leisure industry company, Emfuleni Resorts, was named successful applicant for the Port Elizabeth casino licence on Friday. The application projects more than R530-million in new investment and 3200 permanent new jobs. Chairperson, one GT Boltina, says Emfuleni’s success in the highly competitive Port Elizabeth casino licence race will guarantee the long-term […]
THE Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for Trevor Tutu, the son of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu faces arrest for failing to appear in court on three charges, including two of tax evasion. The two charges of tax evasion relate to Tutu’s alleged failure to submit tax returns in 1996 and […]