Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Friday she was shocked by reports of the attempted murder of Josiah Jele, a former South African envoy to the United Nations. Jele was shot outside his home in Glasgow Road in Lombardy West, south-east of Johannesburg, on Thursday.
In the first half of 2004, Zimbabwean total foreign-exchange inflows amounted to $778,6-million compared with $160,7-million over the same period in 2003, Standard Bank noted in its research brief on the Southern African country citing the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s report.
Cape Town brothel-keeper Amien Andrews, who offered young girls for sex and watched as two of them were raped, was on Friday jailed for 17 years. Cape Town Regional Court magistrate Chris Naude jailed him for three years for keeping the Salt River brothel and an additional 14 years as an accomplice in the rape of the two teenagers.
Negative perceptions are a greater challenge than crime with regards to South Africa attracting tourists to watch the 2010 Soccer World Cup, bid committee CEO Danny Jordaan said on Friday. Jordaan said these perceptions are the result of crime and because South Africa is the first African country to host the World Cup spectacle.
A gas pipeline in southern Belgium exploded in a ball of fire on Friday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 200, many of them seriously. Belgian authorities immediately rolled out a high-level disaster reaction plan as hundreds of firefighters and emergency service personnel raced to the scene of the explosion in Ath.
Ibiza’s famed dance-till-dawn club nights will be lacking many of the drugs that fuel them this summer: the Spanish police say they have made their biggest seizure of the stuff that makes Ecstasy. The raw material for at least 200 000 Ecstasy tablets was found on its way from Holland as the island filled up for the summer with clubbers from Britain and the rest of Europe.
British, French and German officials met their Iranian counterparts in Paris on Thursday to try to salvage the agreement by which Tehran promised not to develop a nuclear weapons programme. Pessimism is growing in the Foreign Office where there is now a belief that Iran is intent on creating the capacity to produce a nuclear bomb.
Shackled and handcuffed in pairs, the 70 men sporting bushy beards and khaki prison uniforms shuffle silently into a barn-like building surrounded by barbed wire fences and imposing walls. It is here in Chikurubi Maximum Security prison that the magistrate’s court sits in judgement over the suspected mercenaries arrested on charges of plotting a coup in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.
South African company Pensant Consulting has finalised a $10-million deal with the Italian owners of <i>National Geographic</i>’s merchandising rights, the Italian-South African Chamber of Trade and Industries announced on Friday. Local operations will have a strong black economic empowerment component.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was firm in noon trade on Friday on the back of futures buying despite a stronger rand. At 12.11pm, the all-share index was up 0,59%. Both the resources and gold mining indices climbed 1,22%. The all share industrial index edged up 0,15%.