Five people were killed in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, police said on Tuesday, in a widening crackdown on a criminal gang blamed for a horrifying spate of murders and beheadings. The five were shot dead and two pistols recovered after carjacking and robbery incidents in the capital’s Ngong and Balozi suburbs overnight, police said.
South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Mandisi Mpahlwa, speaking during the current South African-Italian Business Forum, said that he would not like foreigners to fear black economic empowerment (BEE), but rather that they understand the economic imperative underlying it.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has no intention of stopping its blitz on price hikers, a Cabinet minister was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said Zimbabweans had welcomed the blitz on stores and supermarkets, which has seen prices halved and the arrests of more than 1Â 300 people for charging too much.
Little by little, the All Blacks are deteriorating as the world’s rugby superpower, according to World Cup-winning former Wallaby coach Bob Dwyer. While he declined to nominate the areas in which New Zealand’s game has fallen away, it is apparent to him the All Blacks are not the side they were a relatively short time ago.
Banayana Banyana drew 2-2 with arch-rivals Nigeria on Tuesday in their first fixture at the All Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria. Nigeria found themselves 1-0 down early in the game after a dreadful own goal. The South Africans capitalised and further increased their lead after netting a superb cross from the left wing.
The JSE was slightly down at noon on Tuesday with all the shares looking toppish after the market’s good run the day before, according to a trader. At 12.01pm, the all-share index was flat (-0,06%). Resources lost 0,70%, the gold index rose 0,98% and the platinum index slipped 1,10%. Banks rallied 1,49%, financials added 0,67% and industrials strengthened 0,24%.
Metal and engineering industry strike action could be over on Tuesday if talks succeed, both unions and employers said on Tuesday morning. Talks between unions and the Steel and Engineering Industry Federation of South Africa resumed at 10am in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Whatever glimmer came off the reputations of Brazil and Uruguay during the first round of the Copa America was certainly polished during the quarterfinals. The heavyweights redeemed themselves with one-sided victories over the weekend and face off against one another on Tuesday for a berth in the final, each emboldened by their high-scoring blowouts.
The owners of the Assmang manganese processing plant at Cato Ridge, where at least 50 workers are suspected to be suffering from manganese poisoning, were warned as early as 1995 about the dangers of high levels of dust at the plant. In 1999 the owners were advised to use international measurements of acceptable dust levels because the local legislation was outdated.
A Congress of Democratic Taxi Associations (Codeta) driver has been shot dead in Khayelitsha in the sixth taxi-related killing in less than a month. The murder of a 24-year-old Codeta-affiliated driver, who may not be named as his next of kin have not been informed, follows the murders of five Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association drivers in the past three weeks.