Rescuers battled to move hundreds of thousands of people trapped by floodwaters to safety on Friday, as heavy rainfall submerged 17 000 villages in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.
Members of the 16-strong the ”Fist of the Fleet” squadron are spending yet more hours airborne, honing their flying skills in their deadly gunbattle grey F/A-18C Hornets south of Iraq.
South African companies showed a shockingly low level of public disclosure on social and environmental issues.
South African central bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Tuesday the inflation outlook for 2003 was worrying, and the official inflation target — although a good thing — may have been introduced too quickly.
South African energy group Sasol on Thursday opened a 20 million euro cobalt catalyst plant in the Netherlands it said would supply its proposed Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) operations.
South African diversified industrial company Bidvest Group Ltd said it was dropping its offer for British food group Brake Bros Plc after the UK government referred its bid to the Competition Commission.
National Foods is an ”independently managed associated company and not a long-term component” of Anglo American plc business in Zimbabwe, Anglo American said on Monday.
The business confidence index (BCI) as measured by the SA Chamber of Business (Sacob) has improved from 101,3 in April, to 107 in May to 108,1 in June.
South African Breweries said on Tuesday that its takeover of Miller Brewing to create the world’s second largest brewer has been completed.
Modest gains in heavyweight South African stocks like South African Breweries (SAB) and miner Anglo American kept the wider market firm on Tuesday.