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/ 25 January 2006
Donald Trump, the property magnate with a fondness for putting his name to really tall buildings, signed his name to a monumental lawsuit on Tuesday, suing the author and publisher of a new biography for -billion. Trump was infuriated when TrumpNation estimated his net worth at only -million to -million, rather than the billions Trump says he is worth.
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/ 25 January 2006
London-listed life assurer Old Mutual plc has received acceptances for 71,6% of Swedish insurer Skandia’s shares. Old Mutual is offering R38-billion for the Swedish insurer. The company said on Wednesday that acceptances of its offer received by January 23 have now been validated
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/ 25 January 2006
South Africa’s consumer price index excluding mortgage rate changes (CPIX) for metro and other areas, which is used by the South African Reserve Bank for its inflation target, rose by 4% year-on-year in December after increasing by 3,7% in November, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
After months of running on a skeleton crew, the Cape Town clothing factory owned by listed manufacturer Rex Trueform officially reopened on Wednesday under a new five-year lease agreement with House of Monatic, a wholly owned subsidiary of black economic empowerment group Brimstone Investment Corporation.
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/ 25 January 2006
A senior police officer is to probe allegations of racial tension in the North East Rand Dog Unit, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. ”It is very peculiar that this type of thing should be happening in this day and age,” Superintendent Eugene Opperman said.
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/ 25 January 2006
Preparations have been made for thousands of people to attend the memorial service of business tycoon Anton Rupert, who died last Wednesday, and was buried next to his wife Huberte on Tuesday. The memorial service takes place at the historic NGK ”Moederkerk” in Stellenbosch at 3pm on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
Armed police patrolled rooftops of polling centres on Wednesday as activists waving the green flags of Islamist party Hamas and the yellow banners of rival Fatah mingled with Palestinian voters in the impoverished Gaza Strip. "We want things to improve," said the elderly Abu Mohammed, leaning on a wooden cane. "I support Hamas. Why would I vote for Fatah?"
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/ 25 January 2006
First he lost his oil empire, then most of his money, then his freedom. Now prison officials have taken away Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s right to human company by putting him in solitary confinement. Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, has been moved to solitary confinement at the Siberian penal colony where he is serving nine years for fraud after breaking prison rules for a second time.
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/ 25 January 2006
A pumped-up Nicolas Kiefer and an ice-cool Amelie Mauresmo drove vastly different roads to park themselves in the Australian Open semifinals on Wednesday. Kiefer was on court for four hours and 48 minutes against Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean, while Mauersmo was back in the dressing room in less than an hour against Switzerland’s Patty Schnyder.
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/ 25 January 2006
More than 60 Indonesians screamed anti-graft slogans at the top of their lungs in a contest aimed at encouraging the public to speak out against rampant corruption. The loudest yell clocked in at 113,2 decibels — roughly as loud as a chainsaw — and the screamer snared two million rupiah ($200) in prize money.