SOUTH Africa’s biggest sugar firm Illovo Sugar said on Monday its headline earnings per share for the year ended March 31 had fallen 23% to 67.5 cents, but earnings would show good growth in the coming year. Illovo said it had paid a dividend of 34 cents compared to 48 cents for the previous year. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Thursday FOREIGN investment in Zimbabwe dropped 61% between January and April this year compared to the same period last year, the country’s investment promotion agency was on Thursday quoted as saying. The state-owned Business Herald said statistics from the Zimbabwe Investment Centre (ZIC) showed that only 24 projects compared to 63 […]
IRIN, Johannesburg | Thursday AN Amnesty International (AI) research team has found widespread evidence of politically-motivated murder, torture, rape and violence. Tor-Hugne Olsen, head of the team, told IRIN on Wednesday that after spending a week in the country, they had established that such acts were “commonplace” and that the government was doing nothing to […]
ABOUT 80 bodies of Ghana’s football stampede victims remain unclaimed by relatives almost two weeks after their deaths. Lieutenant Colonel Sam Aninkora, administrator of the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, said the corpses had not been claimed although relatives had identified the bodies and submitted the required documents, including copies of death certificates. “This could […]
SA maize farmers are reaping an estimated seven million tonne harvest, which is good quality so far, while Zimbabwe and Zambia are fretting about poor maize grades, officials said on Wednesday. ”Harvesting has started in the eastern parts by farmers who planted early and so far the grade is really good. The maize in the […]
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"The truth is that art triumphed over commerce." Derek Malcolm rounds up Cannes 2001 and defends a much-criticised festival.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, United Nations | Wednesday THE UN Security Council on Tuesday “strongly condemned” recent attacks by Angolan Unita rebels and urged the release of all civilians – both children and adults – currently being held by the armed group. The council particularly condemned Unita attacks on the town of Caxito, 60km from Luanda, and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday THE United Transport and Allied Trade Union (Utatu) and the SA Logistics, Services and Allied Workers Union (Salstaff) have reached an agreement with Spoornet management on a wage increase, Spoornet said in a statement. Spoornet representative Mike Asefovitz said the agreement was reached with two of the three unions involved […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Wednesday HALF a year after the assassination of Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso – editor of the independent fax newspaper Metical – the country’s public prosecutor’s office has charged six people for the murder, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) reported on Tuesday. Quoting the Tuesday issue of Metical, Misa said […]