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/ 18 January 2005
AltX-listed food company All Joy’s deal with the National Empowerment Fund, whereby 8,33-million shares in All Joy were bought by the fund, will help beef up the company’s empowerment status while improving the share liquidity, as it will allow ordinary people to own 26% in the group, CEO and chairperson Marci Pather said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 January 2005
German linguists, always on guard to protect the language, announced on Tuesday that ”Humankapital” — ”human capital” — was the ”ugly word” of 2004, in their view. The jury of linguists said the term is degrading to employees and reduces people ”merely to an economically quantifiable size”.
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/ 18 January 2005
Boxing SA chairperson Mthobi Tyamzashe is spending sleepless nights worrying about the dwindling number of white boxers in the country. South Africa currently only has six white professional prize fighters. They include Anton Nel (heavyweight champion), Andre Thysse (super middleweight holder) and Daniel Bruwer.
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/ 18 January 2005
The new loveLife campaign for 2005 was launched last week. It is again a message that is hard to understand.
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/ 18 January 2005
Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary says he has met the ghost of eminent British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who died during an expedition to Antarctica in 1916. In a video promoting conservation work on Shackleton’s hut in Antarctica, New Zealand’s greatest explorer describes how he saw the apparition when he first visited the hut at Ross Island.
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/ 18 January 2005
Cambodian authorities said on Tuesday that they have acted to combat a growing mouse plague by offering a government bounty of about two cents for every mouse tail farmers can muster. The offer of a bounty on only the severed tails of the mice is meant to encourage people not to waste the rest of the mouse after they receive their reward.
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/ 18 January 2005
Chief land-claims commissioner Tozi Gwanya says he believes that all 22 447 unresolved land-restitution claims will be settled by the end of this year. ”We are confident,” he said on Monday in Cape Town, where he and provincial commissioners are holding their regular quarterly meeting.
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/ 18 January 2005
Pharmacists will not be breaking the law should they not abide by the government’s dispensing-fee rule for medication, and have nothing to fear from threats by the Department of Health to prosecute those who do not adhere to the government’s regulations, says Anthony Norton, attorney for the Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=178127">Pharmacies charge ‘whatever they want'</a>
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/ 18 January 2005
Cosatu has accused ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe of attacking the movement’s integrity by suggesting that its plans to revisit Zimbabwe was motivated by a desire to attract media attention. During their last visit, Cosatu delegates were deported back to South Africa for involving themselves in Zimbabwean activities.