No image available
/ 20 January 2006
The Southern African NGO Network (Sangonet) will be hosting its first-ever NGO Web Awards in conjunction with its second annual ICTs for Civil Society conference in March this year — and NGOs have less than a month to enter. Sangonet aims to encourage NGOs to use the internet as a communication and advocacy tool.
No image available
/ 20 January 2006
The National Treasury is unlikely to deviate from the path it has pursued since 1995, one of gradually dismantling exchange controls in a phased and responsible manner, despite speculation that the government may opt for a "big bang" approach to lifting remaining exchange-control regulations, Brait economist Colen Garrow said on Friday.
No image available
/ 20 January 2006
The JSE on Friday climbed to a fresh all-time high on positive sentiment from the previous day’s trade as well as higher metals prices and international equity markets. By 12.15pm, the all-share index added 0,89% and the all-share industrial gained 0,75%. Financials climbed 0,59% and resources climbed 1,21%.
No image available
/ 20 January 2006
A bottle with a message inside thrown in the sea in Britain has turned up in Australia six months later, news reports said on Friday. Alesha Johnson (4) threw the message-in-a-bottle into Morecambe Bay in the north of the United Kingdom in July.
No image available
/ 20 January 2006
Tshwane mayor Smangaliso Mkhatshwa is holding a R4,2-million festival this weekend while residents of the Winterveldt, Soshanguve and Olievenhoutbosch communities have been protesting a lack of service delivery, the Freedom Front Plus said in a statement on Friday.
No image available
/ 20 January 2006
The unexpected exit with a damaged boat of overnight leaders Len Jenkins and Michael Mbanjwa on Friday turned the second day of the Hansa Powerade Dusi Canoe Marathon on its head. Their withdrawal left the door open for defending champions Hank McGregor and Martin Dreyer to consolidate their lead going into the final-day run.
No image available
/ 20 January 2006
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s breathing is improving and may soon be disconnected from a respirator, an Israeli daily reported Friday. Sharon has been unconscious at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital since suffering a devastating stroke on January 4.
No image available
/ 20 January 2006
No one is particularly surprised that a stressful day at work raises blood pressure, but a new study in Britain suggests that on-the-job tension also can lead to heart disease and diabetes. A study of more than 10 000 British civil servants over a 14-year period has found a possible biological explanation for why workplace stress adversely effects health.
No image available
/ 20 January 2006
Wilson Pickett, the soul pioneer best known for the fiery hits Mustang Sally and In The Midnight Hour, died of a heart attack in a Reston, Virginia, hospital, his management company said. He was 64. Pickett died on Thursday after having suffered from health problems for the past year, said Chris Tuthill of the management company Talent Source.
No image available
/ 20 January 2006
The South African economy is capable of growing much faster than it has in the past, a panel of experts told a group of government ministers in Pretoria on Thursday. The panel comprised economic and political experts from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of London.