Blantyre | Tuesday THE Malawi government, facing looming food shortages, said on Monday the country and donors will spend $8-million on free agricultural inputs for one million rural households. The inputs include free fertiliser and seed, which will be given to villagers to spur maize production next year and ease food shortages at a time […]

MALAWI’S chief money-spinner, the tobacco industry, said on Tuesday it had formed an association to eliminate child labour on tobacco farms. Amin Mponda-Lungu, vice-president of the Tobacco Association of Malawi (Tama), said the association had been formed to fight “this evil practice” after Malawi was found to be the worst offender in the region. Mponda-Lungu […]

Harare | Tuesday A ZIMBABWEAN white farmer charged with murder over violence on his land saw his bail application postponed on Monday as President Robert Mugabe’s government accused commercial farmers of “economic terrorism”. A high court judge put off the bail hearing for three days in the case of John Bibby, a 70-year-old farmer arrested […]

DARREN SCHUETTLER, Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH Africa’s Gold Fields Ltd said on Monday it was eyeing more acquisitions in Australia and would spend up to $15-million a year searching for more gold on its two new mines in the western outback. Gold Fields announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement with Australia’s WMC […]

THE South African bourse edged higher at Wednesday’s open with mining giant Anglo American recovering from Tuesday’s drubbing. Market heavyweight Anglo hopped up 1,89% or 180 cents to R96,80, boosting the benchmark all-share index 0,23% to 7,899.1. Financial stocks also crept back on optimism that the central bank will cut interest rates this week after […]

Johannesburg | Tuesday SOUTH African shares bounced 2,5% higher in mid-morning trade on Tuesday, inspired by Wall Street’s overnight rebound, but traders said weaker US futures could cap further advances. The benchmark all-share index gained 187 points to 7,568 at 0900 GMT, led by mining house Anglo American Plc. Anglo, the bourse’s biggest share, hurdled […]

PETROCHEMICALS company Sasol on Wednesday announced it would be rebranding. The new corporate image features two elements; an animated logo which uses a molecular structure to represent the chemical character at the core of the Sasol business and demonstrates the way in which Sasol interacts across businesses and markets. The second element is a positioning […]

ANGELA QUINTAL, Cape Town | Tuesday NEW National Party (NNP) rank-and-file in the Western Cape on Monday rallied around their embattled unicity mayor Peter Marais, using a provincial congress platform to vent their frustrations about their alliance partner, the Democratic Party (DP). The NNP, DP and Federal Alliance merged to form the Democratic Alliance (DA) […]

PRETORIA | Monday SOUTH AFRICAN authorities said yesterday the US had forwarded a list of names of people with possible links to suspects in the attacks on New York and Washington. A senior police official said the names and number of people would not be made public. South Africa’s government last week reaffirmed its non-military […]