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/ 14 February 2005
High production output and sales volumes helped push Anglo Platinum’s (AngloPlat) headline earnings for 2004 to R2,62-billion, the company said on Monday. This was 25,1% above headline earnings in 2003, Anglo Platinum’s chief executive Ralph Havenstein said.
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/ 14 February 2005
The coach of Australian swimming superstar Ian Thorpe said on Monday the fertility of female swimmers is being threatened by a ”win at all costs” approach adopted by some coaches. Tracey Menzies said the gruelling training regimes could interrupt athletes’ menstrual cycles and affect their fertility.
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/ 14 February 2005
Michael Owen and Ivan Helguera scored three minutes apart late in the second half and Real Madrid rallied past Osasuna 2-1 on Sunday to give coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo a record seventh straight victory since taking over the club. The victory on a wind-swept field kept Madrid four points behind Spanish league leader FC Barcelona.
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/ 14 February 2005
Andy Roddick can forget his frustrating finish in the Australian Open. The top-seeded Roddick played a near-flawless first set and breezed to a 6-0, 6-4 victory over unseeded Cyril Saulnier of France in 50 minutes to win the SAP Open in the fastest final on the ATP circuit thus far this season.
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/ 14 February 2005
The South African National Blood Service is to unveil new models for testing the safety of blood supplies which does not include a racial profile, the organisation said on Monday. The development of a new model follows a furore last year when it became publicly known that race was among a check list of factors that determined the safety of donated blood.
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/ 14 February 2005
World number one platinum-miner Anglo Platinum (AngloPlat) on Monday announced that it has reduced its refined platinum target for its 2006 financial year to between 2,7-million ounces and 2,8-million ounces (oz) from its previous target of 2,9-million oz. The group aims to produce 2,6-million oz of platinum in 2005.
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/ 14 February 2005
The JSE Securities Exchange’s (JSE) new interest-rate exchange, Yield-X, will start trading on February 28 this year, the JSE said on Monday. In October last year, the JSE announced that it would launch a new interest-rate platform to trade a broad spectrum of interest-rate products, with a focus on derivatives.
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/ 14 February 2005
President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday that he would appoint a commissioner to investigate the possibility of incorporating the Scorpions into the South African Police Service. The commissioner will determine the structure and what should happen to the elite law enforcement arm of the National Prosecuting Authority.
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/ 14 February 2005
My father, Todd Matshikiza, who was known at times to be a difficult and suspicious person, in true Xhosa spirit, nevertheless opened his heart without reserve to people he grew to trust. Anthony Sampson was one of those, and the friendship between them, starting with a collaboration in the early years of Drum magazine, was something that bordered on love.
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/ 14 February 2005
Sideways is a fine movie about mid-life humiliation and vineyards. So much so that it’s been shortlisted for a best-picture Oscar. This is how my wife and I found ourselves driving up the 101 freeway from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez valley, where most of the movie is set. But we were in search of something that fans of Sideways might overlook …