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/ 30 December 2003
KWV International, the export subsidiary of KWV Ltd, one of South Africa’s largest producers of wine and spirits, has continued to see its export volumes grow in the first half of its financial year, but financially the strong rand is having a negative impact on the group, according to managing director Vernon Davis.
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/ 30 December 2003
Undetected by most media Richter scales, important shifts are taking place beneath the architecture of globalisation. Journalists’ silence about this story is surprising given that much of the movement has been directly about the media and their relation to other powerful pressures welling up from subterranean levels.
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/ 30 December 2003
Japan’s top carmaker, Toyota, will develop a humanoid robot designed to help factory workers and provide assistance in nursing care and rescue operations, a newspaper report said on Tuesday. Toyota will announce details of the project in January and plans to unveil the as-yet-unnamed robot in 2005.
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/ 30 December 2003
The South African Castle Premiership has drawn to the the end of the first half of the season and there are still no clear contenders or pretenders to the league title. But look elsewhere in Europe and you can already predict who is going to win. In England, it is between Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal. In Italy, Juventus or AC Milan, while in Spain it is between Real Madrid and Deportiva La Coruna.
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/ 30 December 2003
Noted linguist and author Charles Berlitz, whose book sparked interest in the Bermuda Triangle and whose grandfather founded the language schools that bear the family name, has died at age 90. Berlitz was known for his bestseller The Bermuda Triangle and other books on paranormal phenomena.
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/ 30 December 2003
The Nation of Islam is rallying to support Michael Jackson and has begun handling some security for the pop star as he prepares to defend himself on child molestation charges, sources have said. The sources said the Chicago-based group’s involvement may extend into Jackson’s financial affairs.
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/ 30 December 2003
The Eastern Cape provincial health department says the R1-million allocated to awareness-raising programmes on the problems of traditional circumcision practices has been well spent. ”A lot of unnecessary incidents have been avoided,” said departmental spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo.
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/ 30 December 2003
The Vatican’s ambassador to Burundi was shot dead on Monday when his car was raked with gunfire in an apparent ambush that government and rebel forces blamed on each other. Archbishop Michael Courtney, a 58-year-old Irishman and mediator in peace talks, was wounded in the head, shoulder and leg.
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/ 30 December 2003
A sudden storm with winds gusting up to 75kph killed a child, injured 78 people and displaced hundreds of families in the southern Mozambique town of Moamba, state radio reported on Monday. The storm lasted barely 10 minutes on Saturday afternoon, but razed hundreds of flimsy homes.
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/ 30 December 2003
About 28 000 corpses have been pulled out of the rubble and buried after the devastating earthquake in and around Bam, in southeastern Iran, state radio reported on Tuesday quoting local government officials. A local governorate official has estimated that the final toll will top 30 000.