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/ 18 October 2004
Gold miner Gold Fields on Monday said it has rejected a takeover bid by world number-six gold miner Harmony to create the world’s leading gold mining group, saying it is not in its interests. "Harmony’s true agenda has not been revealed," Gold Fields official Andrew Davidson said.
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/ 18 October 2004
The Boeremag treason trial may be delayed yet again — this time because of a planned urgent application to stop some of the accused being moved from individual to communal cells. The Boeremag accused — who are being held at Pretoria local prison — have complained bitterly about plans to move them from their present single cells into communal cells.
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/ 18 October 2004
More than 900 people were arrested in the Johannesburg area this weekend — almost half of them for serious crimes, police said on Monday. Police spokesperson Inspector Amanda Roestoff said eight murder suspects, four suspected rapists, and five suspected car-hijackers were arrested during police operations.
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/ 18 October 2004
Sectoral education and training authorities (Setas) are here to stay, Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana said on Monday about the oft-criticised learning institutions. ”We are not going to scrap the Setas. On the contrary, we are going to do what we can to strengthen them,” Mdladlana said.
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/ 18 October 2004
South Africa paper and pulp giant Sappi has announced the appointment of Veronica "Ronee" M Hagen, currently chief customer officer of Alcoa Inc, as president and CEO of Sappi Fine Paper North America. Jonathan Leslie, CEO of Sappi Limited, said: "Hagen comes highly qualified to lead one of Sappi’s most important businesses."
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/ 18 October 2004
Two separate car bombs killed six Iraqis and wounded 19 others in the northern city of Mosul, the United States military said on Monday. On Sunday, a car bomb detonated on a Mosul bridge at about 10.30am, killing five Iraq civilians and wounding 15 other people.
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/ 18 October 2004
The South African government has taken "strong exception" to reported comments attributed to the interim Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, accusing President Thabo Mbeki of failing to respect international law by allegedly "allowing a person in his territory to organise violence in another country".
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=123896">’Mbeki not respecting international law'</a>
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/ 18 October 2004
A Nigerian police officer on Friday fired into a group of youths that had descended on government offices to demand Ramadan presents, killing two and injuring three more, a government spokesperson said on Monday. The clash erupted on the second day of the annual Muslim month of prayer and fasting.
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/ 18 October 2004
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon conceded on Monday he may have to call fresh elections to end divisions over his Gaza pull-out plan as pressure for a referendum mounted within his party. In the latest violence, four Palestinians militants were shot dead by Israeli troops, including a Hamas pair who were planning to attack a kibbutz.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=123852">’They destroyed all the houses'</a>
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/ 18 October 2004
The troubled western Sudan region of Darfur is facing another catastrophe with a growing number of animal deaths, including donkeys, in the region where more than 70 000 people have died in a major humanitarian crisis. Donkeys are economically vital for the impoverished people of Darfur.