South African cement producer Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) on Tuesday announced details of its Batsweledi cement-capacity expansion project. PPC will invest R1,36-billion to increase the company’s inland cement capacity in South Africa by just more than one million tonnes a year.
So, what do you look for when buying a car? Gorgeous styling? Impeccable attention to detail? Stunning performance? Despite what the motor industry would have us believe, the average working-class South African buys largely on price. Give him all the bells and whistles at a reasonable price and a queue starts developing outside dealers’ doors.
Oil prices remained within striking distance of $70 a barrel in electronic trading on Tuesday on worries that Hurricane Katrina may have heavily damaged United States crude production facilities, dealers said. The contract had struck an all-time high of $70,80 on Monday as the market braced for Katrina’s landfall.
Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota and KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sibusiso Ndebele are taking the <i>City Press</i> newspaper to court over an article that alleged they were apartheid spies. "This is after the <i>City Press</i> newspaper refused to apologise and retract in full its report of August 7 2005," Lekota said on Monday evening.
"Although Statistics South Africa conducts exhaustive surveys on a regular basis, an odd reliance on small, private surveys persists in the media and among politicians. Given the economic, social and political divisions in South Africa, smaller surveys are more likely to be inaccurate," writes the coordinator of fiscal, monetary and public sector policy at the Congress of South African Trade Unions, Neva Makgetla.
Students of European soccer will know that at midnight this week Wednesday, the transfer window closes until Christmas. The rumours and counter-rumours, the hyperbole and avarice of player’ agents, the acquisitive hopes and dreams of the coaches and club supporters will cease.
Almost three-quarters of Britons are happy to give up civil liberties to make us safer from terrorist attack, according to a recent Guardian/ICM poll. Having seen the all-too-real threat of the July bombings, 73% are ready to pay the price, ready to let their protectors do whatever has to be done.
South African banking giant Absa had repeatedly been alerted to irregularities and unexplained payments authorised by the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe (CBZ) with which it exchanged financial vows in 1998. Absa has a 26% controlling stake in CBZ, now known as Jewel Bank.
The Dutch Reformed Church is unlikely to find a mutually agreeable solution to the ideological divide over membership for practising gays, experts said this week. But while some expect the church to split on the issue, others predict a mere glossing-over to the detriment of gay congregants.
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