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/ 28 January 2005
Nasdaq, the world’s biggest electronic stock exchange, is pro-actively canvassing issuing clients in emerging economies. It says that it sees more activity from, for example, Israeli, Russian and Chinese companies than from the more established economies of, say, France and Germany.
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/ 28 January 2005
She identified her uncle from the gaps between the teeth of a skull she was shown in Phalaborwa mortuary, Fetsang Jafta told the Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Friday. Jafta was testifying in the trial of three men accused of killing her uncle, Nelson Chisale, by feeding him to lions on January 31 last year.
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/ 28 January 2005
The Freedom Front Plus, which has waged a parliamentary campaign against retrenchments at Telkom, has congratulated the partly state-owned company and its three trade unions after an agreement was struck to put the redundancy of 4 300 of its workers on the back-burner.
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/ 28 January 2005
Alex Sudheim visits Kathryn Smith’s latest exhibition, Euphemism, and describes it as ”a sprawling, frustrating, incoherent exhibition by the 2004 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year”.
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/ 28 January 2005
While the world’s richest and most powerful meet in the snowcapped mountains of Switzerland to lament Africa’s dead and starving, the people here advise them to save their breath — they’ve heard it all before. ”It should not be just talk, talk, but do, do something,” said Charles Davies, a newspaper editor in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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/ 28 January 2005
Procter & Gamble is buying razor and battery maker Gillette for about -billion in a stock deal that would create the world’s largest stable of consumer products, the companies announced on Friday. The companies said they expect to save billion to -billion in annual costs, and cut about 6Â 000 jobs as part of the integration.
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/ 28 January 2005
Hundreds of Palestinian police deployed in the Gaza Strip on Friday, a day after the new Palestinian leadership banned civilians from carrying weapons and Israel’s prime minister said conditions are ripe for a ”historic” breakthrough toward peace.
But the ruling Fatah party was overwhelmingly defeated by the militant group Hamas in local elections on Thursday.
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/ 28 January 2005
The death toll from the strong tropical storm Cyclone Ernest, which hit Madagascar at the weekend, has risen to seven, with the recovery of the bodies of four more fishermen off the island’s southern coast, officials said on Friday. The death toll is likely to grow given that 79 fishermen, whose boats capsized in the storm, are still missing.
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/ 28 January 2005
Beer remained the fastest-growing and top-selling alcoholic beverage in South Africa in 2004 — with the premium beer segment posting excellent growth of about 18%. The segment lifted its share of the total liquor sector to more than 80% (by volume in litres) and took away market share from all other drinks, apart from flavoured alcoholic beverages.
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/ 28 January 2005
South Africa has sacrificed the nation’s sporting potential once before under apartheid, and the country should not make the same mistake again, says official opposition leader Tony Leon. ”If the state applies racial criteria to cricket and rugby, what is next? Will there be quotas for bridge and lawn bowls?” Leon asked in his weekly newsletter.