Government is doing little to remedy the severe skills shortage problem among black South Africans, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon.
Optimism on the impact of Aids on South Africa would be ”unconscionable”, according to the three authors of a World Bank study on the impact of Aids in the country.
Scientists meet on Aids strategies
Scores of Disney films like Chicago and Monsters Inc. will soon be available for downloading off the internet through a licensing deal reached between the entertainment giant and online movie service Movielink, the companies said.
Anglo American Platinum and Khumama Platinum Ltd said on Thursday they had agreed to a 50:50 joint mining venture in which Khumama is to be Angloplat’s black economic empowerment partner.
Durban Roodepoort Deep Limited’s revenue declined by R42-million in the quarter ended on June 30 as the rand strengthened by seven percent, DRD said in a statement on Thursday.
Seeff Residential Properties has urged property owners to have their properties and other assets valued for capital gains tax as soon as possible.
Indian plans to divert vast quantities of water from major rivers, including the Ganges and Brahmaputra, threaten the livelihoods of more than 100-million people downstream in Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi government fears.
With the backing of New Africa Investments Limited’s (Nail) major institutional shareholders, an empowerment consortium comprising Safika Holdings, Tiso Private Equity Fund, the Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC) and Investec Bank Limited has made a firm offer to acquire 100% of the issued share capital in Nail.
Telkom has urged its basic rate Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) customers to check the configuration of their modems, to ensure that these to not automatically dial up to their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on the second ISDN channel and ring up short duration calls on their phone accounts.
Nothing could have been done to stop the terrorist attacks on September 11 even though an FBI informant had contact with two of the suicide hijackers a year before they were carried out.