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/ 28 January 2005
World number six gold miner Harmony Gold on Thursday announced that it has elected to waive the minimum acceptance condition — that it secure 50,1% of Gold Fields stock — in terms of its subsequent offer to Gold Fields shareholders. "As a consequence, the subsequent offer has been declared unconditional as to acceptances," Harmony said.
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/ 28 January 2005
South Africa’s petrol price for all grades will decline by two cents a litre from midnight on Tuesday February 2, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel 0,3% sulphur will decrease by eight cents per litre and that of diesel 0,05% sulphur by seven cents per litre.
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/ 28 January 2005
Red on the faces of officials and politicians in the departments of defence and arts and culture! And this time, the total onslaught is one of sheer ignorance and incompetence, writes Mike van Graan.
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/ 28 January 2005
The burgeoning cheese industry in South Africa, which has been around for more than 100 years, is set to benefit when the first plug of formerly disadvantaged cheesemakers goes to France to learn more about the trade. The objective is to offer cheesemakers the opportunity to gain new skills and expertise by doing an intensive, three-week course.
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/ 28 January 2005
England beat South Africa A by six wickets in a day-night match played at the De Beers Diamond Oval in Kimberley on Thursday. Replying to the SA’s 50 overs total of 251/8, England, with 87 not-out from Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen’s aggressive 97 (his last 47 runs coming off only 21 balls) in the end achieved an easy victory.
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/ 28 January 2005
On a blackboard under a baobab tree in the Senegalese town of Peycouk, Samba meticulously spells out a vocabulary lesson for his 20 students, a piece of chalk clenched between the nubby fingers of his leprosy-scarred hand. ”It’s not a hardship, it’s not a punishment — it’s something that can happen to anyone,” he said, keeping his hands in view instead of hiding them in the folds of his robe.
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/ 28 January 2005
An isolated community of endangered gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is managing to hold its own and may even be growing despite the constant threat from poachers and civil war, a United States-based conservation organisation said on Thursday.
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/ 28 January 2005
All but one of the 17 Sasol employees and contractors taken to hospital after a fire at the Sasolburg plant have been discharged, the company announced on Thursday. The person remaining in hospital was being kept for observation and showed no signs of complications.
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/ 28 January 2005
South Africa’s Jewish community joined in the worldwide commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camps in a ceremony at a Johannesburg synagogue on Thursday. Rabbi Yossy Goldman thanked the Allies and the Russian army in particular for freeing Europe’s Jews from the Nazis.
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/ 28 January 2005
The government plans to use microchipping and special enforcement agents to stamp out ”canned” lion hunting — but there are concerns about the ability of provincial officials to curtail this industry. If regulations published on Friday become law, all large predators kept in captivity will have to be microchipped and recorded in a database.