Risk-management group TransUnion on Wednesday announced that it has completed two separate black economic empowerment (BEE) transactions, with a market value of more than R80-million, in the local credit-data sector. The deals involved the Cida Empowerment Fund and Safika Investments.
New Zealand arrived in Harare on Tuesday for the start of their controversial tour of Zimbabwe. They spent most of the day travelling from the Namibian capital, Windhoek, where they had a week’s preparation for two Test matches and a triangular one-day international series involving Zimbabwe and India over the next month.
A Canadian company has put an ice-breaking ship, suitable for navigating icebergs and the often frozen waters of the Arctic, up for sale for a cool one million dollars. The sale of the unusual vessel by the Newfoundland-based Burry group will be conducted on the internet auction site Ebay.
Australia’s cricket team could decide to abandon the Ashes tour if there are more terrorist bombings in England, fast bowler Jason Gillespie said in remarks reported on Wednesday. Gillespie was quoted as saying the Australian team had been unnerved by the July 7 wave of suicide bombings.
Australia’s highest mountain can’t compete with the stature of Everest, K2 and Kilimanjaro. But Mount Kosciuszko in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains will soon boast something few others can: a state-of-the-art loo. A toilet resembling a hobbit hole is to be built on the freezing rooftop of Australia, 2&nsp;108m above sea level.
Television cameras captured dramatic images of an Air France passenger jet in flames moments after the packed plane apparently skidded off a runway and fell into a ravine on Tuesday night. Steve Shaw, a vice-president of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority, said there were no fatalities among the 297 passengers and 12 crew on board the plane.
Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbago is to leave it up his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki to rule on the stalemate created by the failure of loyalists and rebels to get a disarmament programme under way, a presidential aide said on Tuesday.
Listed telecommunications group Telkom’s response to the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s (Icasa) findings on ADSL is a mixed bag, with the operator calling for another look into a specific area it describes as "flawed" findings.
Police on Tuesday seized more documents in their continuing probe into claims of tender irregularities in Cape Town, this time from offices in the Civic Centre. Last week detectives raided the offices of procurement director Mabela Satekge in Wale Street in the city centre, as part of what mayoral spokesperson Mandla Tyala said was an investigation into security tenders awarded by the city.
Johannesburg’s city council was helpless when it came to so-called building hijackings and all it could do was offer advice, a city spokesperson said on Tuesday. Inner City Task Force spokesperson Roopa Singh said it was up to the owners to report the illegal occupation of their properties to the police.