Johannesburg | Monday A STRIKE that brought South Africa’s car manufacturing industry to a near standstill last week would continue on Monday along with strikes in the metal and aluminium industries, a trade union representative said on Sunday. Dumisa Ntuli from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) said the union was organising […]
THIRTY-three people were killed and several others wounded in a weekend bus crash in eastern Zambia, police said on Monday. Police said the bus travelling from Malawi overturned and rolled into a gully on Saturday night. The driver survived the smash and is being questioned by police. – AFP
SHARES in Dimension Data dived 7,7% early on Friday in Johannesburg, in a catch-up from Thursday’s 12% losses in London, when the South African bourse was closed for a holiday. Didata shed more than a rand in early trade to a fresh four-year trough of R12,50, but by 0839 GMT gains in European tech stocks […]
A MOTHER and her three children were shot and killed by Islamic extremists at the weekend as they slept in their isolated country home in western Algeria, locals said on Sunday. Earlier, local media reported that five members of another family were killed and three others injured in an attack by armed militants in the […]
Johannesburg | Monday HUMAN trials on a new Aids vaccine will start simultaneously in the United States and in South Africa’s eastern port city of Durban in March 2002, it was reported on Sunday. The Sunday Independent reported that scientists were selecting 48 HIV-negative volunteers to take part in the phase one trials at Durban’s […]
DEPUTY Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad on Saturday condemned the suicide bombing which left 15 people dead at a pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, calling on Israel not to retaliate. In a statement, released in Pretoria, Pahad said he ”condemned in the strongest possible terms” all such attacks against civilians. But Pahad added that the government is […]
THE gold index of the JSE Securities Exchange jumped almost 5% on Friday, pushed higher by an increase in the price of the yellow metal. By 9.25am, the index had gained 4,84% or 56,6 points to 1_226,2, compared to the overall market, which was 0,23% weaker. ”The gold price is up because the dollar has […]
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Pretoria | Sunday SANCTIONS against Zimbabwe have had little or no effect and are not a viable way to effect change in that country, President Thabo Mbeki’s spokesman said on Saturday. Bheki Khumalo said some countries had followed a policy of “loud diplomacy” — openly criticising the government of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe — and […]
AT least 91 people died and 146 were injured when a train struck a landmine east of the Angolan capital Luanda, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported on Saturday. The train, consisting of four passenger cars, two freight cars and two oil containers, was derailed by the explosion. Some 500 passengers were reported aboard. Angola, […]