With war in the Gulf almost inevitable, local economists are divided, agreeing only that the currency’s direction in the likely event of a war is difficult to call.
South African Casino operators have banded together to form a new voluntary association named The Casino Association of South Africa.
The UN’s nuclear watchdog demanded greater access to Iran’s nuclear programme yesterday, amid growing anxiety in the west that Tehran is much closer to building a nuclear bomb than previously feared.
Ariel Sharon has told his cabinet that he plans to extend the ”security fence” Israeli is building along the length of the West Bank so that it entirely encircles any Palestinian state.
US Major General Thomas Rhame is not impressed by Saddam’s much-vaunted elite troops, the Republican Guard. ”They are simply terrible,” he said. ”They did not perform worth a crap.”
Banking group FirstRand (FSR) confirmed on Monday it has appointed a leading firm of attorneys, Hofmeyr, Herbstein & Gihwala Inc, to conduct an independent inquiry into recent allegations made against one of its directors, former Transport Minister
Mac Maharaj.
Connie Molusi has been appointed the new group CEO of Johnnic Communications (Johncom, JCM) with immediate effect it was announced on Monday.
Rape is being used as a political weapon by the youth militia and other groups allied to Zimbabwe’s ruling party, according to human rights workers and church groups. Investigations by the Guardian reveal allegations of politically motivated rape against opposition supporters.
Were it not for the scientific shenanigans of Nobel Prize winners Francis Crick and James Watson, Rosalind Franklin might well be commemorated today as the discoverer of DNA.
The Cold War and the seven decades of the Soviet Union live now only in the history books. Or at least that’s how it looks. In fact, the reverberations of that place and time rumble on even now. Fifty years after his death, Joseph Stalin is still a presence in our world.