Deutsche Bank’s research team has been ranked first across the Emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region in the 2006 Institutional Investor (II) Emerging EMEA Research Team survey — up from second position in 2005. The annual II survey determines the best sell-side equity research coverage in the region.
Taswell Papier has become the first attorney from Africa to receive the global Lawyer of the Year award from Legal Business — a United Kingdom-based, worldwide industry publication — for his pro bono work and for getting leading local law firm Sonnenberg Hoffmann Galombik to set up South Africa’s first township pro bono office. He speaks to the Mail & Guardian.
Martine Urvoy will never forget July 3, 1995, the night she was told her husband, Francois, a Breton seaweed fisherman, had been lost at sea. For five terrible hours she had no news of his fate. Finally at daybreak, Francois was found clinging to a rock in the treacherous waters off Brittany’s northern coast.
South Africa would like Sven-Goran Eriksson to be their soccer coach at the 2010 World Cup. The Swede is leaving the England job after this year’s championship in Germany. Danny Jordaan, chairperson of South Africa’s World Cup 2010 organising committee, said Eriksson is the ideal man to lift the nation’s struggling team. ”Sven has overseen the emergence of young players and that sort of attitude would be important when building a new team for South Africa,” Jordaan said.
Asian shoppers with an eye for glamour and a wallet for luxury are off to Singapore, where stars such as Gaultier, Ferragamo and Calvin Klein headline the annual fashion festival that begins on Friday. The 10-day showcase brings together international catwalk stars and local designers.
High levels of a radioactive material has been found in groundwater near the Hudson River beneath a nuclear plant, the owner said. The groundwater does not reach drinking supplies, and although the strontium-90 is believed to have reached the Hudson River, it would be safely diluted, said Jim Steets, spokesperson for Entergy Nuclear Northeast.
A professor at the University of Washington Medical School who moved to Botswana to help alleviate a shortage of doctors there, was killed when a crocodile dragged him from a canoe, his family and colleagues said. Richard Root (68) was on a wildlife tour of the Limpopo River in remote north-eastern Botswana with his wife, Rita O’Boyle, on Sunday when it happened.
Racist abuse from Australian fans to South Africa’s cricketers was ”premeditated, coordinated and calculated to get under the players’ skins”, said an official report to the International Cricket Council on Tuesday. South African fast bowler Andre Nel said he was racially taunted by fans in the third Test in Sydney in January.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, on a red-carpet visit to the United States, called on Tuesday for exiled former Liberian strongman Charles Taylor to be extradited home swiftly. ”I wish we had the luxury of time on this issue. But it has become an impediment to our being able to move forward to be able to pursue our development agenda,” she said after talks with United States President George Bush.
South African brewing giant SABMiller said on Wednesday that following receipt of approval from the Slovak Anti-Monopoly Office on Monday March 13 it had acquired 48,4% of the Slovakian brewer Topvar. The controlling shareholders will sell further shares to enable SABMiller to increase its interest to at least 67% by the end of September 2006.