EDGAR BRANDT, Windhoek | Friday SOUTH African Breweries (SAB) is in the running for the takeover of German brewer, Beck & Co, in a venture which could see the giant brewer automatically becoming a part owner of Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL)Becks holds a 49% stake in Namibia Breweries Investment Holdings, which in turn owns 50,1% […]

BARRY STREEK, Cape Town | Friday THE African National Congress has only about 100 staffers at Parliament, but is facing “a litany” of cases at the Labour Court and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). In the most recent case before the CCMA last Friday, a woman employee sought relief after she returned […]

Cape Town | Sunday STORMY weather has delayed a navy mission to airlift two seriously ill weathermen off the remote Marion island until Monday, the navy said. One man is suffering a bleeding stomach ulcer and the other a heart condition on the island in the southern Indian Ocean, some 1_700km southeast of South Africa. […]

A 26-YEAR-OLD South African woman opened the door to a lift (elevator) in a block of flats in Johannesburg — fell four floors, and survived, emergency services said Friday. “When the doors opened, she stepped into what was supposed to be the lift,” on the sixth floor of the flats in the run-down neighbourhood of […]

Johannesburg | Sunday STEEL and mining giant Iscor has averted an indefinite strike but some 15_000 workers downed tools during their first shift Friday before the union accepted a new wage offer, a union spokesman said. The five-hour mass action took the form of peaceful meetings during the first shift at the three major steel […]

SACRED objects worth an estimated 885,000 birr ($104_000) were stolen last month from an Orthodox church in central Ethiopia, police said on Friday, adding that one person had been killed during the robbery. The theft took place on July 29 in a church in Girar Jarso in Oromo country, police told the national news agency. […]

ETHIOPIA has denied accusations by Somalia that it was involved in clashes in southern Somalia last week between supporters of the Mogadishu government and militiamen opposed to its rule. “(This is) mere fabrication,” a senior Ethiopian foreign ministry official told national television late on Friday. Yemane Kidane, the head of the foreign minister’s cabinet, said […]

SENIOR South African figures slammed the United States Thursday for threatening to boycott a United Nations conference on racism, and condemned the “evasive” language of draft declarations. National Assembly speaker Frene Ginwala, attending a preparatory conference in Cape Town, said she found it unacceptable that the United States, which guaranteed freedom of speech in its […]

UGANDAN police on Friday announced that they made the first arrest, of a Ugandan man, in connection with the 1999 murder by suspected Rwandan Hutu extremists in Bwindi National Park of eight western tourists and a Ugandan guide. “He is part of the group that attacked Bwindi and we are still following up some clues […]

FRED ESBEND, Port Elizabeth | Friday THE South African Human Rights Commission has expressed the “gravest concern” at the growing number of racial incidents taking place in South Africa. With the United Nations World Conference against Racism due to kick off in Durban in three weeks, three racial incidents in the Cape made media headlines […]