PRICES at this week’s tea auction in Mombasa were boosted by soaring demand as a result of good leaf qualities, Africa Tea Brokers (ATB) said in a market report released on Tuesday. “There was good general demand with prices closely following quality in each category,” the ATB report said. Pekoe Dusts fetched high prices of […]

WEAKER copper prices and demand has lowered growth forecasts in Zambia, the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said in its latest update on Wednesday. “We (the EIU) have lowered our forecast of real GDP (gross domestic product) growth in 2002 to 4,3% despite increased mining output, because of weak copper demand and output,” said the […]

BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday TELKOM’S decision to implement an average 5,5% tariff hike for services without the approval of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) has raised questions about the ability of “regulators” to effectively police parastatals as they are privatised. Apart from ensuring that state monopolies do not abuse their position, […]

Pretoria | Thursday ANGLOGOLD on Wednesday announced the sale of all its assets in South Africa’s central Free State province, which includes four gold mines, for R2,2-billion ($222-million.) The buyers are African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and Harmony Gold Mining (Harmony). The announcement by AngloGold chief executive Bobby Godsell comes a day after a rival bidder […]

AIR France announced on Tuesday that it would be resuming flights between Paris and Kinshasa as of 8 January 2002. There will be two flights per week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, using an Airbus A340-300 with a seating capacity of 252. Air France suspended its flights between Paris and Kinshasa on 4 August 1998, two days […]

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Cosatu and the ANC have put aside their differences for now, and plan to meet to resolve tensions Glenda Daniels and Jaspreet Kindra In a clear move to ratchet down tensions in the tripartite alliance, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is to delay its planned “people’s summit” on the economy until it […]

Marianne Merten Want to find a peaceful final resting place with 24-hour security, rolling lawns, tree-lined paths, water features and a chapel? Memory Lane, the Western Cape’s first private cemetery, may be the answer. At present the 15ha stretch of land on the rural outskirts of Durbanville in the Mother City’s northern suburbs is still […]

Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The man touted in a newly published book as next in line to command military intelligence appears to have been pushed out of his job. General Horace Doncaster, chief of intelligence processing a key military intelligence division was once a major figure behind a string of the apartheid government’s deadly operations. […]

SERJEANT AT THE BAR Last week was a bad week for our constitutional enterprise. The week ended with the publication of the much-awaited report on the arms deal by the three public agencies. Understandably, the manner in which these three bodies were mandated to investigate meant that there would be even closer public scrutiny of […]