SIX people were arrested in Los Angeles after an international investigation into an alleged multi-million dollar orchid and cycad smuggling operation, the Australian government said on Tuesday. Environment Minister Robert Hill said border and wildlife agencies from several countries joined forces in the endangered plant investigation, which spanned the United States, Australia, South Africa and […]
AN unlucky South African crook was arrested after he broke into a Boksburg library where the local policeman was discussing crime statistics, a newspaper said on Tuesday. The Citizen newspaper said Superintendent Christo Heunis was addressing business people last Tuesday when the building’s alarm went off. ”It was quite ironic. I was actually presenting crime […]
Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s Department of Minerals and Energy confirmed on Tuesday that the retail price of petrol would be cut by 19 cents from August 1 in line with falling international crude oil prices. Wholesale paraffin prices would fall by two cents a litre and diesel by four cents a litre, said departmental […]
A SOUTH African government minister is making a secret herbal medicine out of peach leaves to help treat Aids, the Sunday Times reported. It said the medicine was mixed and brewed in a hut on Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau’s property in the poor Eastern Cape province and had already been dispensed to at least […]
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THE 35-thousand entrants in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour earlier this year spent R66-million in Cape Town, according to a impact study carried out by the Cycle Tour and the City of Cape Town Council. If travel to and from the city is included, the direct economic benefit of the Tour is […]
IRIN Copenhagen | Monday A DANISH company, the DLH Group, has decided to stop importing Liberian timber in reaction to a public call by three non-governmental organisations that it stop dealing with Liberian logging companies implicated in arms trafficking. DLH imported logs from the Liberia-based Oriental Timber Company and Royal Timber Corporation into Europe. Greenpeace, […]
NIGERIA’S second largest port, in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt, is in danger of collapsing because of corrosion of underwater structures, officials stated on Thursday. The port in Port Harcourt was built some 88 years ago and many of its structures are now crumbling, officials said, confirming reports in the Nigerian press. On […]
SOUTH African platinum stocks are seen coming under renewed selling pressure on Thursday because of more weakness in the price of the white metal, putting downward pressure on the overall market, traders said. The market has been pushed lower this week by steep reverses in platinum counters as investors watched platinum and palladium prices touching […]
THE South African government said on Sunday it would release its long-delayed final telecoms policy directives on Thursday which would cover the ”diverse views and needs” of all South Africans. In an advertisement in Sunday newspapers, the Department of Communications invited all stakeholders to attend the launch of the directives at 0800 GMT on Thursday. […]