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/ 30 September 2005
Marketing company Proudly South African on Friday announced the appointment of Manana Moroka as its new CEO with effect from November 1. First launched in 2001, the campaign made progress by achieving a national awareness rate of 80% and is now recognised as one of the country’s top 50 brands, the company said.
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/ 30 September 2005
New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been released from prison after agreeing to testify in a federal probe on the outing of an undercover CIA agent, the newspaper announced. Miller, who spent 12 weeks in a prison near Washington, was set free after her source waived her pledge of confidentiality, the Times said on Thursday.
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/ 30 September 2005
South Africa recorded a deficit of R3,243-billion for its trade with non-Southern African Customs Union trading partners in August after a R1,017-billion deficit in July, according to the latest Customs and Excise figures released on Friday. "It’s not a great number at all and there are no massive imports to account for it either," said one economist.
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/ 30 September 2005
The clocks in the corridors of the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court, where Benedict "Tso" Vilakazi is appearing on a rape charge, were not working this week. They have not for many years now. And it seems, as with the timepieces, time itself has stood still for Vilakazi. For the first time since he appeared on the soccer scene almost five years ago, Vilakazi finds himself a truly marked man.
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/ 30 September 2005
The Constitutional Court on Friday ordered that the controversial medicine-dispensing fee be reviewed within 60 days. In what it called a ”partial victory for both sides” it set aside a Supreme Court of Appeal judgement declaring the new medicine-pricing regulations invalid. It said there is no need to scrap the law, but that changes within the law are needed.
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/ 30 September 2005
Japanese carmaker Nissan on Friday unveiled a car of the future which only goes forward — with a cabin able to revolve 360°, eliminating the need to reverse. The three-seater electric concept car, nicknamed Pivo, will be put on display at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show to be held in Chiba, outside Tokyo, from October 22 to November 6, Nissan Motor Company said in a statement.
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/ 30 September 2005
Convicted killer Mark Scott-Crossley was married in the Phalaborwa Magistrate’s Court on Friday ahead of his sentencing for the murder of farmworker Nelson Chisale. Meanwhile, the community of Phalaborwa wants for life sentences for Chisale’s killers, people said as they crowded the doors of the circuit court.
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/ 30 September 2005
Former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni’s appeal against a fraud conviction and four-year sentence is to be heard in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. Yengeni is to contest the verdict on the grounds that he was deceived into pleading guilty by former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka.
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/ 30 September 2005
South Africa’s retail petrol price for all grades of petrol will increase by 12 cents a litre (c/l) from October 5 after a 29c/l rise on September 7, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel 0,3% sulphur will rise by five c/l after September’s two c/l increase, while diesel 0,05% sulphur will cost six c/l more after a three c/l addition in September.
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/ 30 September 2005
The JSE reached yet another record high on Friday, peeping above the 16 800 level for the first time. Strength in heavyweight dual-listed stocks offshore and a higher gold price contributed to the JSE’s strength. The rand was bid at 6,35 per dollar from 6,38 when the JSE closed on Thursday, while gold was quoted at $473,55 a troy ounce from $471,85/oz at the JSE’s last close.