MICHEL SAILHAN, Cairo | Thursday TUTANKHAMUN’S golden treasures are due to be moved from downtown Cairo to a new state-of-the-art museum complex which will be built near the Great Pyramids in the next few years, officials said on Wednesday. The collection, including the famous pharaonic boy king’s gold funerary mask, has been on display for […]

Lagos | Thursday THE Nigerian government will on Thursday open bidding for potentially lucrative licences to set up and run privately-owned oil refineries in Africa’s largest oil producing country, officials said on Wednesday. The potential investors, said to include a number of Nigerian and foreign firms, have all paid a non-refundable deposit of $50 000 […]

Cape Town | Thursday A KLEINMOND barber in the Overberg has denied chasing a 17-year-old youth out of his hair salon because he is black. The youth has filed charges of crimen injuria and assault with the police against Flippie Otto, who claimed on Wednesday: ”I can’t chase anyone, I have a wooden leg. It’s […]

Pretoria | Thursday EDUCATION Minister Kader Asmal was committing a travesty of justice by the way he was going about merging the University of South Africa, Technikon SA and the distance education centre of Vista University, Unisa principal Dr Barney Pityana said on Thursday. In a notice in a government gazette on Friday, Asmal announced […]

Johannesburg | Thursday THE head of the commission of inquiry into the rand’s depreciation, advocate John Myburgh, has indicated that investigations could begin by the end of next week, around January 18, Business Day reports. The paper quoted Myburgh as saying that President Thabo Mbeki still had to appoint other members of the commission, and […]

Harare | Thursday THE commander of Zimbabwe’s defence forces on Wednesday warned journalists against writing stories that undermine the country’s security and expressed support for the current political leadership. ”We are therefore advising all citizens of Zimbabwe that any reports and actions designed to create instability in Zimbabwe will be met by the full force […]

Johannesburg | Wednesday SOUTH Africa’s transport utility Transnet has sold its 20% stake in mobile operator M-Cell to a Dutch company, Ice Finance BV, the Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe said on Tuesday. The proceeds from the sale are about R5,7-billion ($475-million), representing an 18-percent premium over the share’s current trading price. “This transaction is […]

A PIETERMARITZBURG man – dubbed by the Road Traffic Inspectorate the “Silliest Driver of the Year” – appeared briefly in the Camperdown Magistrate’s Court outside Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, SABC radio news reported on Monday. Kennedy Msimang was not asked to plead on two counts of speeding and two of drunk driving. Msimang was apparently trapped […]

ALMOST 12 000 ships used the Suez Canal in the first 10 months of 2001, up on the same period of last year when a record was set for revenues, the head of the canal authority said Tuesday. A total of “11 823 ships transporting 385,5-million tons used the Suez Canal in the first 10 […]