POTENTIAL bidders continue to woo SA Druggists as the likelihood of Texas company Argyll Scientific making a serious bid for the company appears to be diminishing. Black empowerment group Macmed and two pharmaceutical companies are believed to be negotiating with Fedsure, SAD’s largest shareholder. Fedsure’s proposal to buy 100% of SAD and sell Pharmacare to […]

MOZAMBIQUE’S navy commander is out of danger and recovering well from gunshot wounds to the abdomen, a spokesperson for Johannesburg’s Milpark Hospital said on Wednesday. Rear Admiral Pascoal Nhalungo was transferred to the Milpark Hospital for specialist treatment on January 31 after being ambushed and shot twice in the abdomen in the Mozambican capital Maputo.”He […]

SECURITY guards nationwide are set to strike on Wednesday to demand a shorter working week. The guards — 70000 strong — belong to the Transport and General Workers Union whose general secretary, Randall Howard, warns businesses face chaos if the strike goes ahead. Howard said on Monday that industrial action was the union’s response to […]

MPUMALANGA’S new Environmental Affairs MEC, Luckson Mathebula, has been charged with assault after allegedly beating his estranged wife with a large wooden curio. Mathebula was formally charged with assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm by the auditor general on Monday and will appear in court next week. He allegedly beat Aletta Rose Mnisi […]

ONE person died and eleven others were injured at the weekend when guards opened fire on angry football fans who tried to storm the palace of Ghana’s Ashanti king at the weekend, police said on Monday. Some 2000 fans rushed to the Asantehene’s residence in Kumasi, 200km north-west of Accra. The crowd was protesting the […]

A COMMUNIST opposition group in Sudan has been planning bomb attacks, political assassinations and the overthrow of the current Islamic regime, a pro-government daily charged on Tuesday.A ”secret document” sent by members of the Modern Forces Movement to its leaders in Sudan and abroad reveal plans for a ”comprehensive war” against the regime of President […]

THE South African-based McCormick Property Development Group committed $23-million on Wednesday to building Mozambique’s biggest shopping mall yet in the industrial suburb of Matola near Maputo city. The 21500m Matola Plaza will boast between 67 and 85 shops, the country’s first ”mall style” entertainment complex and cinema and a 40-bed private clinic. Developers will break […]

HUNDREDS of millions of rands are expected to be allocated to job creation projects by government next week. The projects are the result of last year’s Jobs Summit. Labour Minister Shepherd Mdladlana, who has replaced Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin as the main implementor of the summit’s agreements, said the funding will be phased […]

TWO people were killed and about 10 injured in last week’s crash of an Antonov-26 cargo plane in Angola and the Russian pilots, said to have been drunk, will be tried. Angolan aviation officials said on Tuesday that a pregnant woman was among those killed when the transport plane, owned by the Airangol company, crashed […]

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela’s spokesperson Parks Mankahlana faces arrest for failing to pay child maintenance for his eight-year-old daughter, The Sunday Times reports. The mother of his daughter claimed that he only paid once for the upkeep of their child and is seeking R40000 in back payments. Mankahlana confirmed that he was contacted at home in […]