Media group Caxton and CTP Publishers and Printers lifted headline earnings per share from 75 cents to 94 cents for the year ended June — an increase of 26%. This was achieved on the back of a 10% growth in turnover from R2,9-billion to R3,2-billion.
As dawn broke over the ravaged Gulf of Mexico coastline on Tuesday, rescuers in boats and helicopters furiously searched for survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The governor said the death toll in just one Mississippi county could be as high as 80. ”The devastation down there is just enormous,” said Governor Haley Barbour.
A corruption scandal centred on Brazil’s governing Workers Party has been gathering momentum on a daily basis since it broke two months ago. But the great paradox of the situation is that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvas’s grip on power seems undiminished.
Villagers said a meteorite that slammed into rural Zimbabwe sounded like a helicopter as it landed, state media reported on Tuesday. The 4,1kg, white-speckled black lump landed on August 22 in the remote Dotito area of the Zambezi escarpment, about 140km north of the capital, Harare.
A drinking and dancing celebration by the king’s daughter shocked a Swazi traditionalist enough for him to deliver a spanking to the teenage princess, and cast a pall over Swaziland’s annual royal bride-choosing rites. Royal officials had tried to keep word of Princess Sikhanyiso’s party quiet, but acknowledged it late on Monday.
Following several power cuts in Johannesburg, an independent audit has identified serious problems concerning the city’s electricity supplier. These include serious transformer leaks — some at major infeed stations — and the insufficient maintenance of battery systems, the National Electricity Regulator said on Tuesday.
Tourism is a priority sector for South Africa and is well-placed to contribute to economic growth and job creation, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Tuesday. The deputy president was speaking at the launch of the School of Tourism and Hospitality in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, on Tuesday.
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s son, Tutu Buthelezi, is to stand against his father’s party in an upcoming municipal by-election in the Inkatha stronghold. Tutu Buthelezi announced this week that he had joined former Inkatha Freedom Party national chairperson Ziba Jiyane in his new National Democratic Convention party.
Japanese encephalitis has killed 14 more people in northern India, taking the death toll from the mosquito-borne disease to 267, officials said on Tuesday. The new deaths were reported since Monday in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state and one of its poorest.
The European Union on Tuesday warned Somalia’s bickering leaders to resolve a long-running and deepening dispute over the seat of the lawless nation’s transitional government or lose out on much-needed aid. ”The leaders have some differences that are not fully encouraging aid to Somalia,” British envoy David Bell told a meeting of EU diplomats.