The largest diamond cutting and polishing factory in Africa, owned by Russian-Israeli tycoon Lev Leviev, opened in Windhoek on Monday, officials said. The Leviev group, one of the world’s largest cutters and polishers of the precious gems, took over offshore diamond mining concessions from the liquidated Namibian minerals corporation, which collapsed in 2001.
Atlanta Bread executive Basil Couvaras plans to return to South Africa to face fraud charges, a spokesperson said. ”Basil is voluntarily going back to South Africa. We are working on the details of when that will occur,” said Jane Langley, spokesperson for Couvaras and his brother, Jerry, who was arrested by South African officials in March.
Three more people were arrested on Monday in the continuing blitz on soccer match-fixing in the country, police said. Premier Soccer League referee Enoch Hadebe and Dumisani Ndlovu of Hellenic Football Club were arrested in Durban, and Dolf Rousseau, the owner of Basotho Tigers, was arrested in Johannesburg.
Cops to stop counting chickens
The commissioner of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) has spelt out four major obstacles to ending conflict on the continent. At a meeting at the AU’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Said Djinnit said limited resources, lack of support for peacekeeping operations and poor conflict early warning systems all served to hamper efforts to resolve the conflicts ravaging Africa.
South African investment trust Hosken Consolidated Investments Limited, which is suspended from the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa pending the outcome of court action over its plans to delist, on Monday reported diluted headline earnings per share of 2,65 cents.
Everybody should have a right to protect themselves from baseless and debasing sexual innuendo, particularly the kind that ridicules and humiliates. According to a United States federal judge, however, that right does not extend to dolls — even Barbie.
”I believe there was a desperate need for America and Britain to overthrow this fascist and dictatorial regime,” said Wadha Abdullah Hussein. ”I believe most Iraqis appreciate what the Americans and British have done in Iraq. Now we will go through a critical stage until the government and the elections are settled and I think that after elections the situation will improve.
Something happened in Baghdad on Monday, but what exactly? What we know is that somewhere in Saddam Hussein’s sprawling former cantonment on the banks of the Tigris, behind silver miles of new razor wire, an American bureaucrat handed a piece of paper to an Iraqi judge, jumped on a helicopter, and left the country.
The view from the Baghdad streets
French president Jacques Chirac bluntly told United States president George Bush to mind his own business on Monday when the United States president urged European leaders to give Turkey a firm date for starting European Union membership talks later this year. Bush, he complained, ”not only went too far but went on to territory which is not his own”.
It may seem as though Michael Schumacher and Ferrari will dominate formula one (F1) for the foreseeable future, but with a bit of research and crystal ball gazing it is possible to come up with a good prediction of who the team may be looking at as his successor.