Don?t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington? ran the old song. Today?s version might continue: ?Put her into marketing.?
That most redoubtable of worthies, Nigel Bruce, recently distinguished himself in Parliament. Once the editor of the <i>Financial Mail</i>, Nigel Bruce is now an MP for the DA. For a precious five minutes Nigel claimed a forum often jealously occupied by the screechy victimocracy.
A typical end-of-year summing up of South Africa’s 2004 will look like this
TEA prices fell sharply in Kenya this week as ripples from heavy withdrawals seriously hit Monday’s weekly tea auction in Mombasa, leading broking house, Africa Tea Brokers (ATB), said in a market report released here Tuesday.<br>
ABOUT a quarter of AngloGold employees in South Africa are HIV-positive, the company’s Aids report for 2001/2002 stated.
AngloGold’s own research, using data gathered from sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in 2001, indicated HIV prevalence levels of between 25 to 30% among its 44 000 employees.
ZIMBABWEAN police brutally broke up a protest on Tuesday in Harare by about 200 people demanding the government adopt a more democratic constitution
MARK Shuttleworth, due on Thursday to become Africa’s first spaceman, is a youthful idealist who sees his flight into orbit as a contribution to science rather than a rich man’s self-indulgence.
AFRICA’s first spaceman, Mark Shuttleworth, was on Sunday wished a good trip and decent weather by South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma, as the astronaut prepared to blast off next week.
SPACE tourist Mark Shuttleworth will conduct biology experiments involving rat and ewe stem cells during his stay on the International Space Station (ISS), his scientific adviser said on Monday.
JEANNETTE Harksen, wife of fugitive German businessman Jurgen Harksen, was released on bail of R25 000 rand (2 500 euros) by a Cape Town magistrate on Tuesday after having been arrested on fraud charges involving some R60-million on Monday.