THE South African bourse started weaker on Friday pressured by gold stocks on a retreating bullion price, but IT shares provided support, dealers said. By 0730 GMT, the benchmark all share index had lost 0.43% or 40.2 points to 9,411.9, weighed by the world’s largest gold miner AngloGold and parent company Anglo American. AngloGold fell […]
PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin said Russia had no plans to sell gold to raise funds to help victims of floods in Siberia’s Yakutiya region. Russian news agencies on Thursday quoted Putin as saying he intended to sign a decree on gold and diamond sales if a clear scheme was presented to him ”to help people now […]
A PYTHON swallowed a baby minutes after it was born near the central Zambian town of Serenje, state television reported. Heavily pregnant Joyce Mibenge was on her way to plough fields one mile from her home when she went into labor, ZNBC reported. Halfway home, she was overwhelmed by labour pains and retreated into a […]
AN orphan kidnapped in June 2000 by Angola’s main rebel group has escaped and managed to make his way to the town of Kuito, the aid agency that was caring for him said this week. ”We can confirm that the child has arrived in Kuito, but we have not yet had any contact with him,” […]
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A third South African police officer has been arrested for his apparent involvement in a group that are said to have raped young girls, The Star reports. The arrest this week follows investigations of at least 15 members of Pretoria’s Flying Squad. By Monday, four girls had already made statements to the investigating officers, and […]
THE Rwandan army killed 35 rebels and took into custody 21 others, most of them minors, after they launched an attack in a town in northwestern Rwanda, the deputy army chief said this week. The attack in Nyamutera, near Ruhengeri, was launched early on Sunday and continued until Monday morning, according to Brigadier General James […]
US Secretary of State Colin Powell left Washington late on Tuesday for his first African tour, a five-day trip that ends on Sunday. The trip is seen as an effort by the new administration to maintain US interest in Africa, building on the personal attention lavished on the troubled continent by former president Bill Clinton, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mbabane | Thursday THE Swaziland government has banned two news publications critical of the authorities for a second time, barely a week after the Swaziland High Court lifted an earlier ban on one of them. The government banned the weekly Guardian newspaper and monthly Nation magazine, both privately owned publications, in a gazette […]
JACQUES NELL might be the first white member to serve on the Northern province executive of the National African Federated Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) if he is elected at the organisation’s annual provincial conference on Thursday. Nell, who served as president of the South African Chamber of Business (SACOB) in Pietersburg for two years until […]