South African health and life insurer Discovery and its existing United Kingdom joint venture partner Prudential have announced plans to enhance their relationship through the roll-out of life-assurance products into the British market, it was announced on Thursday.
Impala Platinum (Implats), the world’s second-largest platinum producer, says it has won the Business Map Foundation’s award for black economic empowerment (BEE) deal of the year for its transaction with the Royal Bafokeng nation. The deal saw Implats swap a royalty agreement with the country’s richest tribe for an equity stake in the company.
South African consumers are still bearing the brunt of the legacy of apartheid, Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille told a consumer conference on Thursday. She was speaking at the National Consumer Forum at the Oppenheimer Conference Centre at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg.
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was doing well after she underwent a successful five-hour liver transplant due to long-term liver disease, said Professor Jeff Wing on Thursday morning. ”The were no complications during the operation, none whatsoever,” said Wing, head of the department of medicine at the Johannesburg hospital and the University of the Witwatersrand.
Celebrity ex-wives will urge anguished divorcees to burn their wedding gowns in an act of liberation as part of a new series planned for Dutch and French television. <i>Ex-Wives Club</i> will see three famous divorcees advise other women on how to get over their break-up, Dutch programme makers RTL said on Tuesday.
Eight months after its historic opening the railway to Tibet has already brought economic benefits to the remote region, but detractors continue to see the new line as a tool for Chinese colonisation. ”I have returned home,” said Wang Ping, a few days after stepping off the train as it arrived in Lhasa.
A man accused of drunken driving and crashing his truck into a lamp post told police a unicorn had been at the wheel when it careered off the road, Los Angeles media reported on Wednesday. Phillip Holliday (42) appeared before a court in the western state of Montana on Tuesday, the <i>Billings Gazette</i> reported.
Japan’s chief weatherman bowed in apology on Wednesday after a computer glitch meant that Tokyo will have to wait a few days longer than expected to revel under the cherry blossoms. The cherry blossoms bloom for less than a week every year, a rite of spring that is an excuse for nationwide debauchery.
An Australian gambler is suing a casino for tens of millions of dollars for allegedly luring him back to the gaming tables after he had banned himself from the premises. Harry Kakavas is claiming Aus$30-million (about R170-million) he says he lost playing baccarat at Melbourne’s Crown Casino in a 14-month spree — plus damages.
Bernard van Zyl, accused of the axe murder of his former gay partner, was found walking naked along a road at Plettenberg Bay, on his way to the police, the Cape High Court heard on Wednesday. Van Zyl has pleaded not guilty to charges of the murder of estate agent Andre Weitz and aggravated armed robbery.