Future leaders in the mining industry are to get an insight into the challenges they face when they attend a workshop in Sandton hosted by the government, Standard Bank and the Kellogg Foundation.
The World Health Organisation’s long-held position that dirty needles cause 2,5% of African HIV exposures is too conservative, says a leading researcher at the United Nation’s agency.
Liberian rebel fighters who have advanced to the suburbs of the capital Monrovia have asked the Italian Catholic community of Sant’Egidio to mediate in their war with President Charles Taylor, the community revealed late on Sunday.
The shortage of fertilisers, seed for staple cereal crops, fuel and electricity supply, compounded by continued shortage of foreign currency, are diminishing output prospects for the country’s coming winter maize, wheat and barley as well as the 2003/04 summer crops
StanLib Asset Management’s pension funds face losses of approximately R20-million resulting from the reduced valuation of the South African government’s inflation-linked bonds.
Witnesses told yesterday how Iraqi intelligence officers executed at least 150 prisoners in early April, three days before US troops entered Baghdad.
It was, according to the organisers, a world record of huge artistic import. Seven thousand synchronised bottoms were pointed at the sky for what goes down in history as the most numerous nude photo shoot ever.
World number one platinum miner Anglo Platinum and London and Australian-listed Aquarius Platinum have entered into an agreement to jointly mine the adjacent Rustenburg and Kroondal properties.
The South African government is looking at a mechanism to stabilise prices of staple foods, such as maize or wheat, at times of high prices such as during food crises or drought.
Mohammed Hussain was sitting on the roof of his house listening to the radio when he heard the sound of helicopters flying low over his village. He thought nothing of it. It was only when he inspected his opium field the next morning that Hussain noticed something was wrong.