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/ 14 January 2005
Banking group Absa was the most-reported-on company in leading South African media in 2004, according to research conducted by Media Tenor South Africa. Absa was followed by telecommunications group Telkom and gold miner Harmony. For the first time in five years, black CEOs topped the list of most-quoted managers in the media.
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/ 14 January 2005
Global resources BHP Billiton moved to a three-month high on Friday on speculation about the level of 2005/06 iron-ore settlements, brokers said. Shares in South African diversified mining group Kumba Resources climbed to a two-and-half-year high on the strong prospects for iron-ore contract prices.
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/ 14 January 2005
An MP of the ruling Zimbabwean Zanu-PF party spied for a ”South African agent” and was paid 000 (about R60 000) a month to provide political and economic information, media reported on Thursday. This emerged when the court case against Phillip Chiyangwa was moved from Harare’s Magistrate’s Court to the High Court on Thursday.
Cosatu: Return to Zimbabwe
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/ 14 January 2005
When she was nine years old Maribel Dominguez’s family moved from the pine-dotted picturesque volcanoes of Mexico City’s semi-rural southern fringe to the unremitting urban sprawl stretching east alongside an open sewage canal. But there were important compensations.
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/ 14 January 2005
One expects the great issues of Europe to be played out in Brussels, or perhaps Strasbourg, or the national capitals, possibly even on the streets, but certainly not in the football stadiums. Yet, that is what is happening on race. You would barely know it. Football is not accorded that kind of significance in national life: it’s just a game.
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/ 14 January 2005
There are nine days of Test cricket left in England’s tour of South Africa, but only bright-eyed optimists and Centurion tourism officials can believe we will see more than six of those days unaffected by rain. Given the meteorological history of the pretty venue south of Pretoria, the fourth Test at the Wanderers is suddenly looking like a soggy decider.
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/ 14 January 2005
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has applied to the Zimbabwean government to send a high-powered delegation on a fact-finding mission to the country, two months after officials from the labour organisation were deported. But, said Zimbabwe Minister of Labour Paul Mangwana: ”They have no business to do in my country.”
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/ 14 January 2005
Mark Thatcher, the son of the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, left South Africa a free man on Thursday night after agreeing to pay a R3-million fine for his role in a coup plot which could have landed him in jail for 15 years. He flew to London and was thought to be bound for the United States to join his wife and two children after pleading guilty to funding an attempt by mercenaries to topple the government of Equatorial Guinea.
Mark Thatcher pleads guilty
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/ 14 January 2005
Graphic details emerged on Thursday night of the allegations made by the boy accusing Michael Jackson of molestation, including an explicit account of how he was allegedly plied with alcohol and masturbated by the pop star. Jackson faces 10 counts of child molestation and conspiracy.
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/ 14 January 2005
Balancing on the edge of the wooden catamaran, Anura Aparekkag stares long and hard at the blue waters lapping at the sides of his boat. ”No fish today. No fish yesterday. They are too scared to come back here,” he says. In the two hours since leaving the sands of Koggala, the 5m vessel has plied the waters along the coast in a futile search for fish that once could be scooped out of this ocean by hand.