SABMiller, one of the world’s largest brewers, has received permission from the Slovak competition authority to acquire Slovakia’s third-largest brewery, Topvar, in a deal worth an estimated value of $15-million (as measured by net-asset value). SABMiller confirmed this to I-Net Bridge on Tuesday
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is to visit Zimbabwe in a further attempt to resolve that country’s problems. Briefing the media in Cape Town after discussions with President Thabo Mbeki, Annan said Zimbabwe had great potential and an important role to play on the continent.
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The best friend of Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser on Tuesday corroborated the complainant’s earlier testimony that a lawyer tried to get her to drop the charge. Nomthandazo Msidi, known as Kimi, told the court that her friend went to the lawyer to discuss Beeld newspaper’s publishing her picture in contravention of the law.
Genet Kidane has been separated from her farm by a field of landmines since her nation’s 1998-to-2000 war with Ethiopia. Efforts to remove mines stopped after Ethiopia refused to accept a 2002 ruling on where the boundary should fall. And then there is military service, which keeps thousands of Eritreans ready to fight.
Heavily bundled crews are braving merciless cold to continue cleaning up the largest oil spill ever on Alaska’s North Slope. In recent days, the wind chill factor dipped to more than minus 57°C at Prudhoe Bay, as workers attacked the estimated spill of 223 000 litres that seeped into almost 0,8ha of snow-covered tundra.
Israeli troops, backed by tanks and helicopters, on Tuesday stormed a prison compound in the West Bank town of Jericho to seize militants held over the assassination of an Israeli minister. The raid came minutes after British monitors were withdrawn from the prison and sparked a wave of violent demonstrations.
The particles the Stardust probe brought back to Earth in January are a mixture of extremely hot and cold minerals pointing to a mixed origin of the Wild 2 comet, Nasa scientists said. Rather than the balls of ice, dust and gas astrophysicists thought they were, comets turn out to be celestial bodies of complex and varied origins.
Somewhere beneath the thousands of multicoloured kites that flash above the rooftops in defiance of a government ban, Rizwan Ahmed is mourning the death of his four-year-old son Shayan. ”You cannot imagine the horrible and tragic scene. My son’s throat was completely cut open,” he says from his humble home in a suburb of Lahore.
The case against three men, accused of murdering four-year-old Makgabo Matlala and gang-raping her 57-year-old nanny, was on Tuesday postponed in the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court to March 23 for a bail hearing. All five benches at court number two were full of people from Lenasia and Vereeniging.
British male drivers waste nearly six-million hours a year on the road because they are reluctant to ask for directions, a study said on Tuesday. Men who are lost wait an average of 20 minutes before giving up and asking for directions, while women only wait 10 minutes before seeking help.