Sydney’s six Anglican bishops issued a scathing denunciation on Monday of the appointment of gay priests to senior church positions in Britain and the US and told worshippers who supported such moves they were no longer welcome in their diocese.
South African banking group Absa and New York-based Ecoban Finance Limited LLC have established a working agreement to develop Absa’s Structured International Trade and Commodity Finance business in selected emerging market countries.
Telkom on Monday reported a 33,5% increase in basic earnings per share and strong revenue growth for the year to March 31, 2003, in the first set of results to be released since its listing earlier this year.
A unit of DaimlerChrysler is planning to launch a tiny two-seater car on the US market in 2006, and is reviewing whether to introduce the make, the Smart, in China, according to the German magazine Automobilwoche on Sunday.
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Monday signed into law a tobacco regulatory act that imposes an absolute smoking ban in public places and stops tobacco advertisements by July 2008.
Mercedes-Benz has launched an all-new new CLK Cabriolet series. The four-seater soft-top, which comes in six-cylinder CLK 320 and V8 CLK 500 versions, is longer, wider and higher than its predecessor.
The government must stop offering ”red herrings” as obstacles to a comprehensive antiretroviral treatment programme for people living with HIV/Aids, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.
A day after the official launch of her fledgling new party — the Independent Democrats (ID) — party leader and outspoken Aids activist Patricia de Lille confirmed the election of the ID’s national executive committee members on Sunday.
Thousands of displaced people in the war ravaged Liberian capital Monrovia were on Sunday still crammed in schools, public buildings and camps amid abysmal conditions with fears of a cholera epidemic.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma is to face a question from the African Christian Democratic Party in Parliament on Wednesday about whether he is reconsidering his association with and support for the loveLife message.