No image available
/ 8 December 2003
South African sugar producer Tongaat-Hulett Sugar on Monday announced that it is looking to cut costs by half as a result of the strong rand, chief executive of the Tongaat-Hulett group Peter Staude said in a statement. These cuts will require the downsizing of its head office at La Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal.
No image available
/ 8 December 2003
Four more bodies were found on Monday to take the toll from a gas explosion in a coal mine in northern China to 20, state media said. Nine workers were rescued from the Longtai mine in Zhangjiakou city, Hebei province, following the blast on Sunday, the Xinhua news agency said.
No image available
/ 8 December 2003
The Ugandan army has denied reports from local leaders in the country’s troubled northern Lira district that up to 70 bodies from Lord’s Resistance Army attacks have been recovered in the last week. "There is no way that there could be a killing on that scale and we fail to know." said an army spokesperson.
No image available
/ 8 December 2003
God is certainly having his day in court these days, but I doubt if he’d be anxious to endorse the way his name is being bandied about if he was around to hear it. Down in Bloemfontein in the so-called Free State, former apartheid-era Judge Joos Hefer is trying valiantly to play God while a motley crowd of well-heeled natives and Indians scamper around pointing fingers at each other.
No image available
/ 8 December 2003
A German court was set on Monday to view video tapes showing how a self-declared cannibal killed, cut up and ate his victim. The second day of the murder trial of 42-year-old Armin Miewes began in Kassel with evidence to be given by police who visited the crime scene.
No image available
/ 8 December 2003
Global automobile giant DaimlerChrysler has opted to postpone for several weeks the announcement of the company’s decision regarding the expansion of its South African production plant in East London, originally expected last week. The expansion would involve additional foreign investment of more than R1-billion.
No image available
/ 8 December 2003
Former security policeman Bernie Ley, who confirmed spy allegations, made in the media, against chief prosecutor Bulelani Ngcuka, told the Hefer commission on Monday that he had been ”played like a fiddle”. ”He played me like a fiddle, and the tune he used was our friendship of three decades ago,” Ley said of former colleague Gideon Nieuwoudt.
No image available
/ 8 December 2003
About 51 detainees at police cells in the Mangaung region of the Free State were fingerprinted, and seven of them identified as being wanted for other crimes. Captain Sam Makhele said the police visited four facilities and used a new ”morpho-touch” mobile fingerprint device to scan the inmates.
No image available
/ 8 December 2003
A group of chanting Buddhist monks is in line for a Grammy Award, and exiles from Tibet hope the nomination will raise Western awareness of Tibetan culture and their homeland’s plight under Chinese rule. "Any avenue to create more awareness is positive," a Tibetan political activist said.