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/ 17 December 2004
Media group Primedia has made a firm offer to buy New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) for R45,1-million, or R0,356 a share. William Kirsh, CEO of Primedia, said: "The conclusion of the Nail deal is another milestone for Primedia and brings to conclusion Primedia’s successful bid for Nail’s key media assets."
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/ 17 December 2004
The Mental Health Care Act has been promulgated by President Thabo Mbeki and comes into effect immediately, the Department of Health said on Friday. The measure seeks to realign mental health-care service with the National Health Care Act by emphasising the protection of patients’ rights, equity, affordability and access to quality health care.
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/ 17 December 2004
Civilians looted shops and patients lay unattended in a clinic in the front-line town of Kanyabayonga on Thursday after days of fighting between renegade soldiers and troops loyal to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) government. At least 25 000 people have fled the area over the past three weeks.
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/ 17 December 2004
Former president Nelson Mandela and the Nelson Mandela Foundation were granted an interdict in the Pretoria High Court on Friday to prohibit Investgold from importing and selling gold coins bearing his image and name. Investgold sought permission from the foundation in October to import 24-carat gold coins minted in the United Kingdom.
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/ 17 December 2004
Russia’s embattled Yukos oil giant was satisfied on Friday at a United States Bankruptcy Court ruling that slapped a 10-day halt to a planned sale of Yukos’s core asset, its main oil-pumping division Yuganskneftegaz, Yukos’s spokesperson said. But Russian federal property fund’s officials said the sale will go on as planned.
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/ 17 December 2004
Tolkien’s Gollum from his Lord of the Rings trilogy suffered a personality disorder akin to schizophrenia, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal on Friday. The disturbed hobbit-like creature most probably suffered from schizoid personality disorder, medical students from London’s University College found.
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/ 17 December 2004
Just a year ago, terrified inhabitants of African village of Mbomo desperately locked up their schools and churches and stayed inside their homes, not daring even to shake hands with each other for fear of contracting Ebola. Victims of this fever bleed to death after their internal organs liquefy.
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/ 17 December 2004
The South African rand could see more strength over the next few months on the back of a weak dollar, which has been the main driver of the rand since early 2002, Nedcor economist Dennis Dykes said in a commentary this week. According to Dykes, the rand’s fortunes look set to remain tied to the dollar’s in the short to medium term.
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/ 17 December 2004
Three students in sweltering Singapore realised their dream of seeing a snowman by scouring the internet for information and constructing the city-state’s first one, the trio said on Friday. Undeterred by the perpetual heat and humidity, they erected a 3m-tall snowman with a girth of 5,5m and weighing 2,5 tonnes.
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/ 17 December 2004
Vice-chancellors of South Africa’s universities have rejected reports that prospective students must write compulsory entrance exams in 2009. Several newspapers said the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors’ Association decided that students must write entrance exams because the proposed new grading system will be unreliable.