Durban Roodepoort Deep, the mining firm racked by allegations that executive chairperson Mark Wellesley-Wood took his corporate clean-up campaign beyond the limits of the law, was hit by another high-profile resignation in the third week of March.
The prime minister, Tony Blair, today told the Commons that coalition forces were just 60 miles from Baghdad, and in a ”crucial moment” would soon encounter a division of the Iraqi Republican Guard defending the route.
The African National Congress could emerge with an overall majority in the Western Cape with expected defections from the New National Party bolstering their numbers in the legislature.
Despite the collapse in share prices in sector heavyweights, most South African information and telecommunications technology (ICT) companies emerged from 2002 intact, a report released on Monday shows.
The government’s women empowerment drive bore fruit on Monday when Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau paid an inspection visit to Johannesburg’s Leeuwkop Prison where a R19-million revamp project by a black woman contractor has just been completed.
Education minister Kader Asmal said on Monday he foresaw that metropolitan city councils would ”in the fullness of time” run primary and secondary education.
Twelve wounded US soldiers were flown to Germany on Monday for treatment at a military hospital, including three seriously injured believed to be among the casualties of a weekend incident at the 101st Airborne Division’s command center in Kuwait, military officials said.
South Africa is the main destination for the trafficking of people for the sex trade in southern Africa, a report has found. Victims are from most countries in the region as well as from Thailand, China and eastern Europe.
The South African rand was steady against the dollar, but slightly weaker against the euro and sterling just before noon on Monday in a nervous market. Currency traders said that the rand was likely to remain range bound in the short term, but saw it weakening later in the day when US markets opened.