SEKUNJALO Investments, which has obtained a R92m 13% share in Siemens Southern Africa, was interested in acquiring a further 10% holding in the electronic and electrical engineering giant, Sekunjalo chief executive Iqbal Surve said this week. Siemens Southern Africa chief executive Klaus Doring said a price could not be put on the 10%. Sekunjalo, which […]

SCIENTISTS working on a primate research project near the Kenyan coast fled a protest by more than 300 naked women against plans to turn their land into a national park, newspapers reported on Wednesday. The dozen scientists carrying out a census of rare red colobus monkeys in the Mnazini area of Tana River district last […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Mbabane | Thursday A CLAIM for compensation by South African miners suffering from asbestosis may have pushed Swazilands asbestos export earnings down, the Central Bank of Swaziland said on Wednesday. The countrys asbestos export earnings declined by 37.9% in the first six months of 2000 compared to the corresponding period in 1999, possibly […]

KWAZULU-Natal Wildlife is to retrench about 600 employees to cut costs, Agriculture and Environmental Affairs MEC Narend Singh confirmed on Wednesday. Singh said 600 out of a total of 3_600 employers were to be retrenched “so more money can be directed to ground work”. He said the restructuring process began in the 1990s when the […]

EXACTLY a year after torrential floods caused over R70m worth of damage in the world renowned Kruger National Park, the park unveiled its new Riverside luxury chalets in Skukuza on Wednesday. On February 7 last year floods destroyed roads and infrastructure in the park and washed away chalets along the Sabie River in Skukuza camp. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Thursday IN a sprawling mansion protected by North Korean tanks and heavily armed Zimbabwean soldiers, with a waiting room full of sleepy guards, President Joseph Kabila said on Wednesday he was ready for peace – but on his terms. The young leader, who is in his late 20s, has promised to […]

SOMEONE has to serve these poor people in the rural communities. They need our help more than people in the urban areas and they are so appreciative for the little they have and receive,” says nurse Maggie Ntikinca, deputy manager of the SA Transnet-Phelophepa Health Care Train health clinic. “Phelophepa” means good, clean health – […]

A DECISION by the new administration of the debt-ridden Ivory Coast airline Air Afrique to lay off nearly 1 000 employees for two months without pay is “illegal and illegitimate” and should “be scrapped, pure and simple,” a union leader said. The airline management announced that nearly one-quarter of the airline’s 4 126-strong workforce would […]

THE Northern Cape government has ordered residents of Schmidsdrift to take all meat and carcasses of cows that recently died to health authorities after at least 15 people were admitted to hospital after having eaten meat infected with Anthrax. The patients are being kept in an isolation ward with swollen arms and skin lesions. Five […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday FACING legal challenges over the governments moratorium on crime statistics, Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete has now indicated the gag will probably be lifted during the second half of this year. The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday said it was convinced the moratorium was unconstitutional, while Independent Newspapers announced it […]