Almost all the tahrs on Table Mountain have now been killed, South African National Parks chief executive David Mabunda announced on Thursday. ”With 109 Himalayan tahrs removed we estimate that the operation is 95% complete,” said Mabunda.
Swiss-based, South Africa-listed luxury goods group Richemont has outperformed market expectations for its financial year ending March 31 2004, analysts said on Thursday, reporting a 3% rise in fully diluted earnings per unit of €1,193 and boosting its dividend by 25% to €0,4 per unit.
The Cape Wine Academy has joined forces with the SA Wine Routes Forum to improve service levels at wine cellars throughout South Africa in an effort to maximise the country’s wine tourism potential. This entails offering a new wine course focusing on improving the services offered by wine cellar personnel.
The reorganisation of the state-owned Denel arms group has been delayed by an anti-corruption drive led by chief executive Victor Moche, defence industry sources say. The group, with effect from April 1, reorganised into two broad divisions, called Denel Land Systems and Denel Aerospace.
Ahead of talks with G8 leaders, South African President Thabo Mbeki called on Wednesday for greater urgency in resolving two of the most pressing crises in the African continent — in Zimbabwe and Sudan. He lamented that formal talks between Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had not started despite prolonged informal negotiations.
Attempts by United States President George Bush to exploit the diplomatic triumph of the United Nations resolution on Iraq were on Wednesday night running into stiff opposition at the G8 summit, as France joined Arab countries in deriding the White House plans for a greater Middle East initiative.
The publisher and three news directors at Zimbabwe’s banned independent newspaper, The Daily News, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of publishing without a licence. The four are facing charges under Zimbabwe’s tough media laws that oblige all news organisations and journalists to be registered by a state commission.
The black marble monument still stands in the town centre, but Ventersdorp no longer fears the one-time Afrikaner messiah who promised blood and thunder. Eugene Terre’Blanche walks out of jail on Friday, having served his time for beating up black people, but he will find the home he returns to, like the rest of South Africa, changed.
The United States can benefit from researching and acknowledging past atrocities committed against blacks and American Indians, said South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. ”There is a pain that sits in the tummy of most African Americans and Native Americans, and maybe white Americans, that needs to be articulated in a non-threatening environment,” said Tutu.
Excuse us for not adding our voice to the outpouring of praise for defunct United States president Ronald Reagan — the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> does not believe in sanitising the malodorous dead. Our only regret is that this smiling ghoul was not gathered to his fathers before the start of his eight-year reign of terror over the Third World.