Gari Dombo has been appointed as managing director of Alexander Forbes Personal Insurance Services, a division of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Alexander Forbes group, with immediate effect. He is the first black MD to be appointed by the group.
Seventeen ships from five nations staged a mock sea battle off southern England on Tuesday to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, during which Admiral Horatio Nelson routed Napoleon Bonaparte’s French and Spanish forces and ensured that Britain ruled the waves for more than a hundred years.
Three new sites in South Africa may become United Nations world heritage sites. They are the Vredefort Dome in the Free State, the Taung Skull fossil site in the North West province and the Makapans Valley in the Limpopo province. The nominations were unveiled in Johannesburg on Tuesday by Minister of Arts and Culture Pallo Jordan.
Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi has accused certain newspapers of being ”part of a faction of the African National Congress”. Among the accused is the Mail & Guardian. ”Where is the working class media,” he asked.
John Fiedler, a stage and screen actor who grew up in Wisconsin and won fame as the voice of Piglet in Walt Disney’s Winnie-the-Pooh films, died from cancer, according to his brother, James Fiedler. He was 80. Fiedler died on Saturday in New York, a day after the death of Paul Winchell (82) who created the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh’s animated friend Tigger in the Disney films.
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang says South African HIV/Aids patients should be given the option to turn to traditional forms of medication as an alternative to anti-retroviral treatment. She said garlic is a key ingredient in the fight against HIV/Aids and is particularly useful in fighting fungus ”in the intestines and in the vagina”.
American high-speed cable networks are not required to provide access to rival internet service companies, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a case watched for implications on competition for internet access. The ruling paves the way for the federal regulators to ease open-access obligations on big phone carriers.
Cast members from Little House on the Prairie will reunite this weekend in Tombstone, a town known for its old West roots. Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder, is scheduled to reunite with Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder) and Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson) during the Tombstone Western Film Festival that runs from Friday until July 4.
The United States military said it plans to expand its prisons across Iraq to hold as many as 16 000 detainees, as the relentless insurgency shows no sign of let-up one year after the transfer of sovereignty to Iraqi authorities.
Taittinger, the French luxury goods group which owns one of the great champagne houses and renowned hotels, is effectively up for sale with a price tag of more than â,¬2-billion, it emerged on Monday. The group said it had asked BNP Paribas and Rothschild to examine offers for its assets.