A DELEGATION representing families of victims who died in the 1989 bombing of a French airliner asked the United Nations Friday to block the lifting of sanctions against Libya. Francoise Rudetzki, the head of the French association SOS Attentats (SOS attacks), which represents the families, met at the United Nations on Friday with chief UN […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela is to honour his director-general Jakes Gerwel and Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan, for their efforts in mediating an end to the Lockerbie dispute, his office said on Saturday. The two men will receive special awards at a lunch hosted by Mandela in Cape Town on Tuesday, an […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Monday 6.00pm. MOST indices on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange drifted without direction on Monday, while gold lost over 5%. The rand stayed in a range around R6,15, while bonds slipped. Dealers lamented the lack of direction in the equities market, as a firm opening on the JSE gave way to moderate […]
THE Jewish Board of Deputies in the United Kingdom is investigating complaints that an exhibition by leading South African artist, William Kentridge, is anti-Semitic. Offence has reportedly been caused by some of the animated films which form the focus of the exhibition and depict characters called Soho Eckstein and Felix Teitelbaum. Kentridge, himself a Jew, […]
NINE oil exploration firms have come together to launch the Offshore Petroleum Association of South Africa (Opasa), a pressure group to convey the upstream industry’s interests to the government. The firms are Energy Africa, Forest Oil Corporation, Mossgas,PanCanadian Petroleum Limited, Phillips Petroleum SA, Petroleum Limited, Pioneer Natural Resources SA, Sasol Petroleum International and Soekor. The […]
GUNMEN shot dead a grandmother, mother, teenager and baby, all from the same family, near Pomery in KwaZulu-Natal province at the weekend, police said on Monday. The killers then burnt down the Ndlovu family’s rural homestead. Police believe the massacre was in revenge for the killing of a traditional chief, also from the Ndlovu family, […]
MICROSOFT SA, the Associated South African Music Industry and the Pretoria branch of the police commercial crime unit this week joined forces against copyright violation. In a joint statement issued on Friday, the three bodies said the police, at the request of Microsoft and ASAMI, conducted a raid on a person suspected of making illegal […]
NIGERIA’S military ruler General Abdulsalami Abubakar has put a stop to 660 million dollars’ worth of last minute spending plans by his outgoing administration, a report said Saturday. Abubakar, who steps down at the end of this month, ordered the freeze on new capital project spending at a meeting of the military-led government in Abuja […]
ALLAN Boesak, who has petitioned the Chief Justice for leave to appeal following his recent six-year sentence for theft, has confirmed that his wife Elna is five months pregnant with their second child. “I’m ecstatic,” Boesak is reported in the Cape Times as saying. He was sentenced in March to six years imprisonment for stealing […]
THE World Health Organisation on Friday confirmed that the epidemic of haemorrhagic fever in northeastern DRC is not due to the Ebola virus, but could be caused by the related Marburg virus. One of five samples analysed in South Africa tested positive for Marburg virus, the other four were negative. Revised figures from the WHO […]