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/ 29 January 2004
The R4,1-billion deal between Mvela Resources and world number four gold group Gold Fields is likely to be completed within two months or by the end of March, Gold Fields said on Thursday. The transaction will see Mvela take a 15% stake in Gold Fields’ South African operations, which consist of the Beatrix, Driefontein and Kloof gold mines.
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/ 29 January 2004
A suicide bomber blew up on a bus in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing at least 10 bystanders and wounding about 30 in an attack outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s official residence, police and paramedics said. The prime minister wasn’t in the area.
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/ 29 January 2004
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) nationals accused of diamond trafficking in Angola are being held in ”inhuman conditions” in Angolan jails, said the non-governmental organisation Voices without Voices on Wednesday.
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/ 29 January 2004
Trade between the United States and Africa fell during 2002, weighed down by a decline in US exports of transportation goods and a decrease in energy exports from Africa, according to a US report. In 2002, US-sub-Saharan merchandise trade totalled ,1-billion, down from ,8-billion in 2001.
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/ 29 January 2004
Demand for access to ”secret” documents by the South African History Archive Trust could result in a mammoth legal battle in the Pretoria High Court. The Justice Department is strongly defending the non-disclosure of the 34 boxes containing sensitive Truth and Reconciliation Commission documentation.
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/ 29 January 2004
The leader of Zimbabwe’s main opposition, Morgan Tsvangirai, who is facing charges of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday wound up his evidence before a Harare High Court hearing his trial.
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/ 29 January 2004
Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper is to be restored, 38 years after it was severely damaged by floods which killed 30 people in Florence. Experts at the city’s Opificio restoration institute will begin a preliminary inspection of the work on Friday.
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/ 29 January 2004
In Spain, it’s a much venerated literary prize and showcase for the country’s finest erotic writing. But judges of the Vertical Smile have concluded that authors who specialise in this lauded oeuvre have lost some of their oomph.
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/ 29 January 2004
The man who gave the world All Shook Up may now be all cut up, according to a company selling what it claims are two-inch pieces of one of Elvis’s famous songs. The sale has provoked a row within the music world over what some critics call sacrilege.