Johannesburg | Tuesday CLUFF Mining Plc said on Tuesday it will fast-track its South African Blue Ridge Platinum Project which could produce 200 000 ounces of platinum group metals (PGM) a year. The latest results of a drilling exploration programme showed a measured resource of 1,1-million ounces of platinum group metals, Cluff said in a […]

Johannesburg | Monday RETIRED deputy SA Reserve Bank (SARB) governor James Cross told the Commission of Inquiry into the rapid depreciation of the rand on Monday that he was not the source of information on possible trades which could have led to the currency’s collapse last year. According to media reports there were strong rumours […]

East London | Tuesday THE Eastern Cape health department said on Monday it needed three weeks to determine which health institutions in the province had the capacity to administer the anti-retroviral, nevirapine, to HIV-positive pregnant women. Departmental representative Mahlubandile Mageda said the department did not know yet which hospitals had capacity, but nine hospitals in […]

Suburbia has been turned upside down

PEACE talks on the Democratic Republic of Congo gained momentum on Monday as the DRC put a power-sharing proposal on the table and the
South African president met with warring rivals.

The current constitution, negotiated with the former colonial
master Britain at independence in 1980, gives Mugabe broad
executive powers, which he used to change electoral rules up to the
day before voting began.

JESSICA HODGSON, THE GUARDIAN, Harare | Tuesday THE powerful head of the Zimbabwe state broadcaster is to be investigated by the government after allegations of homosexuality were made against him, according to newspaper reports. Alum Mpofu, the chief executive of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corp, has been accused of causing a disturbance at a Harare nightclub […]