SOUTH AFRICA’S heavyweight gold shares took centre stage on Tuesday as bullion jumped to its strongest levels in more than two years, but the rest of the market traded sideways weighed by soggy overseas markets.
MPs in the National Assembly on Tuesday warmly applauded the achievements of South Africa and Africa’s first space tourist Mark Shuttleworth.
OLYMPIC mascots Phevos and Athena have feet even bigger than those of the Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe and look like pictures of Bart Simpson made from macaroni and dressed in a sock.
DR JOE Rosen is not a quack. He works at the acclaimed Dartmouth Medical Centre and has been a scientific adviser to Nasa. He is fond of making statements such as: ”Human wings will be here. Mark my words.”
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NIGERIAN dealers dominate the cocaine trade which has exploded in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, according to a report by the Pretoria-based Institute for Security Studies. “Cocaine and crack cocaine were not commonly available in South Africa (prior to 1994) … This market vacuum was filled when Nigerian nationals arrived in […]
THROUGHOUT much of the world, pyjamas are generally the business of, and seen by, yourself and your loved ones alone. But not in Shanghai. Any time of the day or night, at virtually any time of the year, a casual stroll through the streets of the eastern Chinese city will give the tourist a visual […]
THE Eastern Cape’s seven provincially aided SA National Tuberculosis Association (Santa) hospitals are in financial dire straits.
DECIPHERING the mouse genome is the latest stakes in a race between public and private sector research teams to announce the results of their work.
DRAFT legislation which proposes ruling out the participation of school governing bodies in the appointment of teachers at government schools has produced an outcry from some education stakeholders.