International financial and risk services group Alexander Forbes on Wednesday announced the expansion of its black economic empowerment (BEE) footprint to Namibia through the sale of 30% of its Namibian business to a newly formed empowerment company.
Zimbabwe has threatened legal action against foreign media organisations and their local correspondents — including the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> — saying some of them are "mercenaries" working to topple the regime of President Robert Mugabe.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=32476">NNP: Zim govt is ‘desperate'</a>
Anti-terrorist police quizzed four British Muslims on Wednesday, a day after their release from United States custody at Guantanamo Bay, as a fifth savoured freedom for the first time in two years. All five men returned on a flight from the naval base in Cuba where the US holds about 650 alleged al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
British Airways, which is operated by Comair, has won the award for the best domestic airline in South Africa for the fourth time, the airline said on Wednesday. The Association of Travel Agents of South Africa has been making the award for the past 14 years.
South African envoys began holding talks with Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the Central African Republic on Wednesday after Pretoria said it is open to granting exile to the ousted Haitian leader. The delegation, led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad, first met with Central African Republic President Francois Bozize.
The State might get another chance to prosecute apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert Wouter Basson. The Constitutional Court agreed on Wednesday to consider certain constitutional issues arising from an appeal against his acquittal.
The detention of an aircraft, and its crew and passengers, in Harare, was all part of a "dreadful misunderstanding," the plane’s owner, Logo Logistics, said on Wednesday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=32441">Mercenaries ‘came to collect guns'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=32435">Zim plane definitely not South African</a>
Listed financial services group Metropolitan Holdings expects to return some amount of excess capital to shareholders in its new 2004 financial year, probably via some combination of a share buy-back programme, special dividend and strong dividend policy, according to CEO Peter Doyle.
The colours are vivid, the lines simply drawn, a strangely idealised version of what Nelson Mandela saw — or wished to see — through the bars of the tiny cell where he spent 27 years for resisting South Africa’s apartheid regime.
Officials in Madagascar have had no word of a ferry carrying 113 passengers and crew since a cyclone ripped across the Indian Ocean island, killing at least 11 and leaving tens of thousands homeless. The ferry reached the Mahajanga port at 5pm on Sunday but was not allowed to dock because customs officers were not on duty.
Cyclone wreaks havoc on island