Indian defence journal SP’s Land Forces has defended the accuracy of a report that the country’s defence ministry has initiated action to cancel all contracts with Denel. The South African arms maker has denied the report and the Indian high commission in Pretoria has indicated the contracts may just have been suspended.
The United States military launched a major offensive early on Tuesday in a cluster of cities in the Euphrates River valley aimed at insurgents who were using the area as a safe haven and who had killed 20 marines there in August. It was the second US offensive launched against al-Qaeda in Iraq militants in the Anbar region of western Iraq in four days.
Hope faded on Tuesday for 59 police trainees missing after a landslide in south-eastern China as the confirmed death toll from Typhoon Longwang rose to 15 and wild weather pummelled other parts of the country. Longwang landed in Fujian on Sunday after leaving at least one dead in Taiwan. So far, 15 are confirmed dead in China.
Listed hospital group Medi-Clinic on Monday announced a black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction valued at R1,1-billion in which it plans to sell a 15% equity stake to strategic black empowerment partners (with 11%) and participating Medi-Clinic staff (4%), based on a share price of R18,40 per Medi-Clinic share.
Hong Kong’s high-end hotel sector just got more luxurious with a spate of new openings and refurbishments designed to cash in on the Chinese city’s newfound position as a top travel destination. Spurred by a strong economic recovery from almost seven years of decline the city got its first new hotels in 15 years this autumn.
Two months in state hospitals in North West and Gauteng changed a healthy pensioner of Lichtenburg into an ”empty shell”, News24 reported on Tuesday. Des Farrell (72) was admitted to hospital on July 23 with a broken leg. On September 21, he was discharged with mild brain damage and many bedsores.
The JSE was marginally higher on Tuesday on the weaker rand and the higher gold price, with the bourse in consolidation phase, equity brokers said. By 12.03pm, the all-share index had added 0,18%, industrials climbed 0,18%, financials soared 0,34% and resources were 0,8% higher.
It’s official. For an initial period of a year, former Springbok and Sharks coach Rudolph Straeuli will rejoin the management team at the headquarters of the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union in the new post of commercial manager. Originally the post had been advertised as being for a director of rugby.
If coach Stuart Baxter expected a transformation in old habits, with all Bafana Bafana 20 players assembling en masse at the squad’s training camp in Durban on Monday prior to the critical African Nations Cup match against the Democratic Republic of Congo, it was a case of Bafana’s leopards simply not changing their spots.
There were thrills, spills, breakages and plenty of action in the Trapani Louis Vuitton Act 8 off Sicily on Monday where the 12 teams from 10 nations across five continents entered for the America’s Cup in 2007 battled for supremacy on the penultimate day of match racing.