THE South African rand retained its firm foothold on Wednesday morning floated by positive sentiment, dealers said. The rand was last quoted at R8.0820 to the U.S. dollar from a previous close of 8.0700. “Dollars have been long and dealers have been clearing their long positions, which has helped the rand firm quite a bit,” […]
AUTHORITIES at the University of Benin, in Nigeria’s southern Edo State, have expelled another 108 students for forging their credentials. The latest expulsions bring to 178 the total number of students sent away this month for forging their credentials. At least 1_000 students have been expelled from various academic institutions in Nigeria over the past […]
FORMER president Nelson Mandela and media company Naspers will launch two internet technology centres in the Karoo towns of Calitzdorp and Carnarvon on Thursday. Both towns will each receive an internet technology centre. Calitzdorp was identified by the Department of Health as one of the most underprivileged towns in South Africa. Each centre has been […]
THE Reverend Leon Sullivan, the civil rights crusader who wrote the Sullivan Principles, an international code of business conduct that helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died of leukemia. He was 78. Sullivan, a former Philadelphia minister described the principals as “a code that companies of America and the world came to follow to […]
TWENTY one African countries have developed action plans to contain the scourge of malaria plaguing the continent, WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland said on Wednesday to mark the first-ever Africa Malaria Day. Malaria kills at least one million people a year and it is a major barrier to development in the continent, Brundtland told a […]
UGANDAN police said in a statement on Wednesday they had destroyed 400 tonnes of marijuana, the largest haul deriving from a single seizure operation. The 600 000 plants, which were burned, were valued at 2.3m shillings ($1.1m). Eleven people were also arrested in the three-day operation carried out between April 18-20 in Busia District in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday PRESIDENT Mbeki said on Thursday that he was unfazed by allegations of a plot within the African National Congress to oust him. Mbeki, who was addressing businessmen and cabinet ministers at a breakfast at the Sandton Convention Centre, said there was no crisis ”certainly not in the ANC and not […]
Two things emerge from seeing <b>Hannibal</b>, the sequel to <i>The Silence of the Lambs</i>: one is that Hannibal Lecter – "Hannibal the Cannibal" – is not as interesting a character as he used to be, and the other is that Ridley Scott is a very uneven director
The Department of Finance believes the rand could sink as low as R26 to the United States dollar by 2018, after dropping to about R14,9 to the dollar by 2010. The department’s affordability study of the arms deal provides a rare insight into an official line on the future of the currency. The study, drafted […]
An imam from the Cape Flats has found a prison buddy in Allan Boesak Marianne Merten Prison has brought together two religious leaders a soft-spoken imam, who is accused of conspiring to murder a magistrate, and vocal liberation cleric Allan Boesak, serving time for fraud and theft. Imam Gasant Moos is detained in a cell […]