No image available
/ 24 February 2003
The South African Treasury is rolling in money and will be able to give taxpayers back some R10-billion rand when the 2003/4 Budget is presented on Wednesday, PLJ Financial Services chief economist Dawie Roodt said.
No image available
/ 24 February 2003
South African employers of domestic workers — estimated to number about a million — have been warned of stiff penalties for non-compliance with the looming deadline for the implementation of unemployment insurance.
No image available
/ 24 February 2003
South African tourism and travel services group Tourvest on Monday reported a 62% rise in headline earnings per share to 9,4 cents for the six months ended December 25 from 5,8 cents for the same period the year before.
No image available
/ 24 February 2003
Gold stocks were under pressure in early trade on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) on Monday, paring gains on the all share index. While gold counters had taken their cue from their ADRs, which performed poorly on Friday, the remainder of the market was buoyed by a stronger Dow.
No image available
/ 24 February 2003
A national crop survey conducted this week by the UN’s World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organisation has found widespread crop failures in the most impoverished areas of Swaziland.
No image available
/ 24 February 2003
Security agents in the Central African Republic have arrested Socrate Bozize, the son of former army chief of staff turned rebel leader Francois Bozize.
No image available
/ 24 February 2003
Pointed pistols and shouted commands announce the arrival of Britain’s Royal Marines aboard Iraqi vessels suspected of smuggling oil.
No image available
/ 24 February 2003
A group of San (Bushmen) from Lake Chrissie in Mpumalanga visited the mountain peaks of their forefathers in KwaZulu-Natal last week, along with local San descendants and other San from the Northern Cape.
No image available
/ 24 February 2003
The fraud and theft trial of African Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and broker Addy Moolman is to resume in the Pretoria Regional Court on Monday.
No image available
/ 24 February 2003
Some 15 human shields — including Britons, Turks, and Russians — arrived at their battle stations at the Baghdad South power station yesterday, throwing down their rucksacks on rows of cots overlooked by a gilded image of Saddam Hussein.