The JSE Limited’s listing attracted plenty of interest on Monday as the exchange now joins an elite club of listed bourses worldwide. Examples of bourses that have listed on their own exchanges include the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, Deutsche Borse, Nasdaq, Euronext and the Australian Stock Exchange.
Swedish tennis great Bjorn Borg, winner of five consecutive Wimbledon titles, rated himself among the world’s top four players ever. In an exclusive interview with Stockholm daily Expressen, Borg was asked to rate the world’s top five players ever. He came up with four names: Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and himself, adding it was impossible to compare the quartet.
Former African National Congress Chief Whip Tony Yengeni might not have to report to jail just yet -– despite missing a deadline to seek leave to appeal against his four-year-prison sentence. He could apply for condonation of late filing of his application for leave to appeal, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein said on Monday.
London’s emergency services responded poorly to the July 7 suicide bombings by relying on outdated communications, lacking medical supplies and failing to track thousands of survivors, an official report said on Monday. The London Assembly’s July 7 review committee said that the most striking failure was the lack of planning to care for thousands of survivors.
Alan Garcia first became president of Peru in 1985. Within five years he had steered the South American country in the worst crisis in its history. Then the man known as the ”Kennedy of South America” disappeared into the political sunset, never to return — or so it seemed.
The JSE was weaker at midday on Monday, dragged down by softer world markets. Gold stocks bucked the trend, however, buoyed by a higher bullion price. By 11.56am, the all-share index shed 0,23%, while the all-share industrial index eased 0,13%. The financial and banks indices fell 0,69% and 0,3% respectively.
Gunmen wearing commando uniforms snatched at least 50 people from travel agencies in central Baghdad on Monday in an apparent kidnapping as 11 students were shot dead elsewhere in the capital. The commander of the police commandos, Major General Rashid Fulayah, strongly contradicted earlier reports that the operation was officially sanctioned.
A deadline imposed by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas for Hamas to soften its policies to end an acute crisis ticked to a close on Monday as at least five people were killed in fighting in Gaza. Meetings were planned throughout the day and evening in the West Bank town of Ramallah, where the moderate Palestinian Authority president is based.
The trial of Saddam Hussein and his associates resumed on Monday with all eight defendants present and a resumption of defence-witness testimony. Presiding Judge Rauf Abdel Rahman began the session by announcing that the court would hear testimony from two witnesses for defendant Ali Dayih Ali, a minor Ba’athist official from Dujail.
Former president FW de Klerk was doing well after weekend surgery to remove a colon tumour, a spokesperson for Cape Town’s Panorama Medi-Clinic said on Monday. Melissa Rademan said he was still in the general intensive-care unit. A decision had yet to be taken on when he would be moved to a general ward.