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/ 1 September 2006
South Africa is in a strange situation with regard to the supply of petroleum fuels. Sasol produces about 23% of the country’s requirements at, what seems to be, a considerably lower cost than the other refineries — yet it is required by law to sell its products at prices as if the stuff was being imported from international refineries.
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/ 1 September 2006
As Europe seeks to reduce dependence on the unstable Middle East’s oil reserves, it is not only looking to continents such as Africa or Latin America, but also to its own soil to ensure supplies. Several companies are investigating the possibilities of starting or increasing oil production in Spain, an insignificant producer so far.
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/ 1 September 2006
Chad’s president has threatened to expel energy giants Chevron and Petronas, two of the three consortium partners in a World Bank-backed project that was meant to serve as a model for oil extraction in Africa. Idriss Déby accused the United States and Malaysian companies of failing to pay R3,2-billion in taxes and told them to make plans to leave the country.
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/ 1 September 2006
Dust off your bike, fuel shortages may soon hit again, says an investigation commissioned for the Department of Minerals and Energy. In December last year South Africa experienced a series of shortages in fuel supplies that caused major disruptions for commuters and businesses alike.
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/ 1 September 2006
About 60 Somalis have been killed and another 15 injured in the Western Cape in the past two months in a deliberate attempt to chase businessmen from the African country out of Cape Town’s townships, according to the Somali residents. They said 29 Somali businessmen had been killed in August alone, mostly in Khayelitsha.
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/ 1 September 2006
Slam poetry used to have an element of hipness about it, but today I would rather be bludgeoned with a blunt object than be trapped in a crowded, dimly lit room being forced to clap to the garbage coming out of the microphone. But then there’s Odidi Mfenyana’s Rhythms Down My Spine – a one-man nu-cabaret that is currently doing the rounds in Cape Town, writes Fidel Mbhele.
In a twist to the oft-told tale of humans encroaching on the wild habitats of Africa, dozens of exotic animals have made a middle-class Gauteng suburb their permanent address. ”Don’t mind the mess,” says Debbie Mills as she unlocks the front gates to reveal a cage-lined driveway where monkeys play with snacks of sugary cereal and fruit cocktail.
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Public interest ”demands” that former deputy president Jacob Zuma is not granted a permanent stay of prosecution, the state argued in heads of argument filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday. The state said: ”We submit that there is a compelling public interest in ensuring that the guilt or innocence of the accused is judicially determined after a full and open hearing.”