Stocks rose slightly at midday on Monday, reversing earlier losses, but overall trading was muted ahead of another wave of corporate earnings reports and inflation data later in the week. At noon, the all-share index was up just 0,09%, thanks to a 1,06% gain in the platinum-mining index.
Old media enter into an uneasy alliance with new media on Monday night to grill the Democratic candidates in the United States’s 2008 presidential race. CNN and <i>YouTube</i>, are holding a joint debate in which the public have sent in video-recorded questions for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the other candidates.
A Nigerian woman weightlifter and an Angolan male swimmer have tested positive for banned substances at the All Africa Games. Blessed Udoh, a medallist in the 48kg category, tested positive for diuretics, Zohir Bensohane, a Games official in charge of anti-doping control, told reporters.
United States and Afghan soldiers surrounded a district in central Afghanistan where 23 South Korean Christian aid workers were being held hostage on Sunday night as their Taliban captors extended a deadline for their demands by 24 hours. The insurgents, who snatched the South Koreans from a bus at gunpoint on Thursday, have threatened to start executing the group.
Sajida Khan (55) died in her home on Sunday night, during a second bout of cancer caused — she was convinced — by Durban’s largest dump. The Bisasar Road site, which handles most of the city’s rubbish, was placed directly across the street from her home in Clare Estate in 1980.
There has been a ruckus recently because Discovery Health Medical Scheme has continued to fail to meet its 25% solvency ratio required by law. The question Discovery Health members are asking is: are their benefits safe? Can Discovery Health meet member claims?
Africa’s east coast could go from having no undersea broadband cables to four. The planned East Africa Submarine System, touted as the solution for the bandwidth-starved continent, has been plagued by political squabbles that have resulted in it splintering into four mooted cable projects.
Last week France and Germany abandoned the dual-nationality management structure at Eads, the owner of Airbus, in an attempt to turn the struggling aerospace and defence group into a "normal" global company. The move will bring an end to the strife that has crippled the group for the past two years.
Philomena Appiah’s factory is the surprising source of thousands of American uniforms and workwear items, tailored by Ghanaian seamstresses and shipped across the Atlantic to stores in the United States as part of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa).
Motorists can be expected to pay more for fuel soon as crude prices soared again to nearly $77 a barrel. Turmoil in the international oil markets — due to strong demand, geopolitical instability and a shortage of refining capacity — will put further upward pressure on forecourt prices.