World number two platinum-miner Impala Platinum (Implats) on Friday reported a 9,9% increase in basic headline earnings per share for the year to June 2005 of 4 325 cents, from 3 924 cents in the group’s 2004 year. The group declared a final dividend per share of 1 800 cents.
The Springboks will play their final match of the 2005 Tri-Nations against New Zealand on Saturday. A win will give them back-to-back titles in the competition, something only achieved previously by their opponents. Defeat will almost certainly mean second place in the log, for no one in their right mind believes that in the current circumstances Australia can win in New Zealand a week later.
Failed brakes apparently caused the school bus accident that claimed the lives of three pupils and the driver in Cape Town on Thursday, education authorities said. About 40 pupils were injured when the bus overturned in Kloofnek road in Cape Town, the provincial education department said in a statement.
The answer, whether the question is asked of the left or right, militarists or peaceniks, almost always boils down to one word: nothing. Even before Ariel Sharon finished prising 8 000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip and a small part of the West Bank earlier this week, the debate in Israel had turned to what happens next.
Iraq’s leaders missed another deadline for a new Constitution on Thursday night when the ruling Shia and Kurdish coalition failed to win Sunni Arab support for the proposed draft. A one-day extension was announced minutes after the midnight deadline but there was little sign that last-ditch talks on Friday would bridge divisions between the main ethnic and sectarian groups.
Love in Action International stands on a bluff in north Memphis, the steep roof of the ministry’s angular modernist church offering itself as a beacon of hope for the world’s reluctant homosexuals. That should include every gay man and lesbian on the planet, according to the Reverend John Smid, the head of this evangelical group, whose mission is to take gays and straighten them out.
A 50-year-old tree tumbled across a road in Newlands, Cape Town, on Friday as gale-force winds, driving rain and bitter cold hit the city in the early hours of the morning. The Elsieskraal River flowing through Pinelands had apparently burst its banks, but there was no major flooding reported so far, said senior traffic officer Lyndon Herbert.
Seventeen people including many children died and about 30 were injured early on Friday when a blaze ripped through a dilapidated apartment building in Paris occupied by African families. The origin of one of the worst blazes in post-war Paris was not known, but a criminal investigation is under way. The fire was a reminder of a blaze on April 15 this year in the central Opera district in which 24 people, also immigrants, perished in a hotel.
The "Bertone" badge says it all. Designed by the Bertone Style Centre, the Alfa GT makes a big statement, no matter where it goes. Look closely, and you’ll see that its pedigree stems from its attractive 156 sibling. With a length of 4,48m, width of 1,76m and a height of just 1,37m, the Alfa GT Coupé is aggressive and compact.
The new 3-Series exhibits the least controversial design, yet it seems to be the one that the most consideration has gone into. It has an aggressive snout which pays tribute to the performance of the model, sleek lines with nicely rounded wheel arches and an overall aesthetic befitting the lineage of the car.