”Operation Most Wanted” led to 11 arrests on a variety of charges on Thursday and Friday, the Pretoria police said. The Rietgat tracing unit made four arrests for armed robberies and attempted murder, the Pretoria flying squad arrested five men for hijacking and the city’s organised crime unit made two arrests for drug dealing, said Constable Brenda Kgafela.
Hurricane Emily strengthened dangerously after slamming into Grenada, where it blasted out windows and flooded two main hospitals and tore roofs from homes still damaged by last year’s storms. At least one man was killed. The storm grew to a dangerous category three as it cleared the Windward Islands, unleashing heavy surf, gusty winds and torrential rains on islands hundreds of kilometres away.
The JSE was still down slightly in midday trade on Friday after slipping off Thursday’s all-time high. The JSE started lower on early profit taking as well as the stronger rand against the United States dollar, equity brokers said. On Thursday the all share reached an all-time high of 14,832.18.
The next empowerment deal that South Africa’s largest food group, Tiger Brands, does will be broad-based and the empowerment parties involved will have to add value, with a possible grouping being communities near the group’s operations, Tiger Brands chief executive Nick Dennis said on Thursday.
The treatment that ”illegal foreigner”, ”prohibited person” and Hollywood star Wesley Snipes received from the National Immigration Branch showed that the new immigration system worked, the Department of Home Affairs said on Friday.
Standard Bank, which garners the largest chunk of the credit-card market in South Africa, and First National Bank have both managed to increase their share of the market at the expense of the country’s other major banks. According to a new analysis, the overdraft market seems to be a more competitive area of banking.
Higher fuel costs have hit rural bed-and-breakfast (B&B) establishments hard this year, as companies have had to raise fuel allowances due to higher fuel costs for their commercial travellers visiting rural areas, while cutting their accommodation allowances to keep down the overall cost per sale.
It can safely be assumed that Jack Nicklaus did not grow up with a burning ambition to win the Telus Skins Game, a made-for-television marketing event disguised as a Canadian golf tournament, but put a club in the hands the greatest player of all time and he just cannot help himself.
Minutes after the explosions in central London, a quiet room inside the ambulance service headquarters on Waterloo Road became the heart of the capital’s emergency response. A chamber usually used for low-priority calls was transformed in a short space of time into the ”gold control room” — the communications centre for hundreds of ambulance workers.
A leading international agricultural policy group on Thursday urged African nations to drop opposition to biotechnology crop research and genetically modified foods, saying such a step could dramatically improve food security on the impoverished continent.