IN its first foray into the Chinese market, the world’s largest gold firm, Anglogold, on Monday announced a series of initiatives to boost China’s gold market. The drive is co-sanctioned by the World Gold Council. Announcing the plan in Beijing, China, Anglogold CEO Bobby Godsell said he sees China developing as a major growth market […]

MAURITIUS Telecom has acquired 66% of the private Madagascar telephone company Sosaiety Misahna Varotra Sylndostria, the Mauritian national company said on Tuesday.The installation of expansion facilities will begin in April at a cost of 15 million dollars to MT, which will oversee the financial, commercial, technical and administrative management of SMVI. According to 1996 figures, […]

KURDISH rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan applied for a visa to South Africa before leaving Italy at the weekend, the Anatolia news agency reported on Monday. His whereabouts are at present unknown. The report quoted anonymous security sources as saying they received information that Ocalan went to Moscow after leaving Rome on Saturday and then moved […]

FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda has challenged incumbent President Frederick Chiluba to refute charges that he has helped to arm Unita rebels in Angola. “There is no smoke without fire — let them deny it convincingly and effectively because Angola keeps coming back with the same accusations,” the independent Post newspaper quoted Kaunda as saying. […]

THE University of Pretoria launched a satellite-based pilot programme on Tuesday which will link two schools via satellite to lecturers in Pretoria in the rural Northern Province. The pilot project, which has targeted 200 pupils at the Nape A Ngaato and Mkoni A Mabule high schools, hopes to boost existing matric pass-rates of roughly 20% […]

TWO women have won a prestigious South African boxing award, without ever fighting. Shona MacTaggart and Robbyn Segal are the joint winners of the 1998 King Korn/Boxing World special award — making them the first female recipients of an award in the 23-year history of the event. Boxing World magazine editor Bert Blewett said the […]

AIR Lesotho will fold its wings on February 6. “Heavy losses from August 1997 to December 1998” were blamed by the privatisation unit of the Lesotho ministry of finance for closing the national air carrier. The firm was established in 1997 after privatising Lesotho Airways. Since then is has lost approximately R200000 per month, according […]

THE launch of South Africa’s first home-grown satellit has been delayed again, according to a statement on Tuesday by Stellenbosch University. Spokesperson Douglas Davies said the launch by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Vandenberg Air Force base in California is now scheduled for 12:39:52 SAST on Wednesday. He said the latest delay […]

KENYAN authorities have appointed an anti-corruption advisory board, meeting a key condition for the resumption of talks on an aid package halted by the International Monetary Fund in July 1997. Attorney General Amos Wako named the new advisory board to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority (KACA)late on Monday. Its first task will be to nominate a […]

PENNY HEYNS won her second breast stroke event and the World Cup short-course swim meet on Saturday. Heyns edged two Australians in the 50-m sprint, finishing in 31:27 to Helen Denman’s 31:29 and Samantha Riley’s 31:81. Heyns beat Riley in the 100m breast stroke on Friday.