United States First Lady Laura Bush arrived in Cape Town on Monday where she will spend time with her daughters while visiting HIV/Aids centres, the American embassy said. On the apron at the Cape Town International airport, awaiting her arrival in a US Air Force jet, was a cavalcade of more than 30 vehicles.
Seven of 15 South Africans believed to be missing in London following last week’s bomb blasts have been found, the Dutch Reformed Church said on Monday. The names of the 15 were read out during a church service in London on Sunday. The seven sent messages to friends and family to say they were safe.
Arsenal have admitted for the first time that Juventus have made a move to sign captain Patrick Vieira. Highbury chairperson Peter Hill-Wood said the club might sell the 29-year-old, whose contract expires in 2007.
At least 56 people were killed and 30 were seriously injured when a bus plunged over an embankment southwest of Asmara in what authorities believe was one of Eritrea’s worst road accidents, the state news agency Erina reported late on Monday. The bus, which police believe may have been overloaded, was travelling between the towns of Adi Quala and Maimene in southern Eritrea.
Municipal workers were on Tuesday preparing for a nationwide march over a pay dispute, the SA Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said. Spokesperson Roger Ronnie said that an early survey showed that both Samwu and Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union members had turned out for the strike.
South Africa’s third-largest gold-miner, Harmony Gold, experienced 29 fatalities during its 2005 financial year, from 42 in the previous year, Harmony spokesperson Vusi Magadana said on Monday. The group’s best fatality record was 25 fatalities, achieved in the group’s 2003 and 2001 years.
South Africa’s Anglican archbishop of Cape Town believes Zimbabwe is facing a ”humanitarian crisis” following the government’s campaign of shack demolitions that has left at least 300Â 000 people homeless, his spokesperson said.
Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe, still to come to terms with last week’s stunning defeat to London for the right to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, has accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair and London bid leader Sebastian Coe of breaking the rules. ”I don’t say they flirted [with the yellow line], they crossed right over,” he told his first Paris council meeting on Monday.
Shares in FirstRand were up more than three percent in early trade on Tuesday on rumours that it could be a possible takeover target by the world’s largest bank, United States group Citigroup. At 10.10am, the group’s shares were up 3,30% or 47 cents to R14,70 a share on the rumours.
Seven of 15 South Africans believed to be missing in London following last week’s bomb blasts have been found, the Dutch Reformed Church said on Monday. The names of the fifteen were read out during a church service in London on Sunday and the figure has been reduced from 50.