Congested ports in Brazil and Australia are adding to world number one resources group BHP Billiton’s operating costs, executives at BHP Billiton’s carbon steel materials division said in a conference call on Thursday.
The National Union of Mineworkers on Thursday announced that it had declared a dispute at the Modikwa Platinum mine, near Burgersfort in Mpumalanga, and said the matter has been referred to the Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration.
A salmanazar and several jeroboams are among the more exotic sized bottles in a line up of outstanding South African wines donated to a high-profile charity auction at Cape Wine 2004, the four-day wine trade fair taking place in Cape Town on March 30.
United Kigdom and South Africa-listed SABMiller has established two separate joint ventures with its pan-African partner the Castel Group in the French speaking territories of Algeria and Morocco, at a total cost to the group of $46-million, the company announced on Thursday.
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Afrikaners must get involved and work with other South Africans to improve the country, National Action leader Cassie Aucamp told farmers in Limpopo province. The former self-proclaimed Afrikaner supremacist-turned-moderate now believes all South Africa’s inhabitants must ”pull in the same direction”.
A decision on whether to prosecute three men arrested following the shooting of an ex-soldier outside former President Nelson Mandela’s home will be made on Thursday. Authorities have 48 hours from their arrests to charge the men, or free them.
Absa is the first bank in the country to implement an advanced debit card fraud software system which detects fraud in near real-time. The strength of the system lies in its neural network technology that identifies subtle patterns of suspicious or unusual behaviour by looking at known patterns of fraud.
As Ted Kennedy said en route to Chappaquiddick, bad roads do not a bad driver make. It takes more than a rutted Iranian riverbed-cum-highway or an Iraqi shooting gallery to push motorists to the limits of endurance. For that, you need to be in Cape Town on the weekend of the Argus cycle tour.
Religious fundamentalism is on the rise, Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu warned the United Nations on Wednesday, and he pointed to Iraq as a place where religious divisions threaten to disrupt the rebuilding of a shattered nation. He urged diplomats to embrace moderate religious values — charity and understanding — as a basis for their work.
A fourth set of charges — this time under draconian Zimbabwe state security legislation — has been brought against 70 alleged mercenaries said to have been part of a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea. The 70 have been in detention for more than 10 days since they were arrested at Harare international airport .