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. […]

TWO people have been killed in Burundi in an attack blamed on rebels from the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD), one of two Hutu rebel groups opposed to the minority Tutsi government. “A member of the peacekeeping militia was killed and another seriously injured” in one attack in the Kirekura area of Rumonge […]

Cape Town SOUTH African millionaire Mark Shuttleworth has confirmed that he is undergoing training in Russia to become the next paying space tourist, it was reported on Friday. The Cape Times newspaper quoted Shuttleworth as saying he began “intense” training at the Star City astronautical centre outside Moscow on Tuesday to in a bid to […]

Maputo | Saturday TWO Mozambican policemen were Friday sentenced to 17 and 18 years each in jail over last year’s death of 83 detainees from suffocation at a police holding cell in Mozambique’s northern town of Montepuez, state media reported Saturday. The officer on duty on the night of the deaths, Tereciano Mithale, was sentenced […]