Cape plc will pay out only a third of the amount promised to the victims of its local asbestos-mining operations. The dramatic reduction will, Meeran warned, prevent any compensation for future victims of asbestos pollution or other exposure at Cape’s abandoned mines. However, South African investment holding company Gencor is supplementing the settlement
The executive committee of the Cape Town unicity trashed five years of negotiations and consultants’ reports costing R221 500 when it decided recently to scrap a plan to rejuvenate the historic, but degraded, Company’s Garden. Pressure from the South African Municipal Workers’ Union could be behind the decision.
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Athos Kyriakides talks to TranxAfrica’s Busi Ntuli about her company’s involvement in helping filmmakers return to their roots.
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Friday that force should only be used against Iraq in ”extreme circumstances”. Angola is one of six non-permanent members of the UN Security Council.
Frantic diplomatic talks were continuing at the UN today, with Britain and the US making a final push to win backing for a second security council resolution on Iraq, as the leading proponents of war planned a three-way summit to discuss their position.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon says reports that President Thabo Mbeki has urged his Zimbabwean counterpart to end so-called land reform in that country are false, and that the president really said the opposite.
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