THE SA rand held steady at firmer levels against the dollar in slow Monday trade, but struggled to pierce through 7.88 technical resistance in the absence of London and New York players, traders said. The rand made feeble attempts to break through 7.88/dollar, but was restrained by insufficient domestic factors, settling around 7.8875 against the […]
THE United States government will give Uganda $50-million in a five-year programme towards the prevention and fight against HIV/AIDS. Visiting Secretary of State Colin Powell dropped the hint on Sunday at Mulago Hospital in Kampala where he had gone to meet people living with HIV, after holding talks with his host President Yoweri Museveni. Powell, […]
THE caretaker of a mill in the southern town of Quss in Egypt, dreamt overnight he was killing his dog, awoke with a start and proceeded to open fire, wounding three soldiers, a police source said on Sunday. Yakoub Ashmawi, caretaker for Upper Egypt Mill, a company in Quss near Luxor, wounded the three soldiers […]
A CRIPPLED car carrier – listing heavily in swells off the South African coast – was under way on Monday under its own power and heading for a sheltered bay, a ports representative said. Terry Taylor said engineers on board the Panamanian-registered Modern Drive had got the ship’s engines going and that it was headed […]
MINISTERS, academics and industrialists from the Commonwealth countries on Monday opened the 40th Session of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Science Council in Cape Town. The one major purpose of the council is to enhance the capacity of its members to utilise science and technology for social, economic and environmental development. Ministers from Australia, […]
GOLD coins and mobile phones have rained down on people in southeast Egypt as a candidate, standing in the ongoing consultative council elections, decided to shower locals with incentives to sway their vote, a police source said on Sunday. Over the last four days, a glider bearing the name and election symbol of independent candidate […]
THE SA government is to open high profile public hearings on Monday into a controversial multi-billion dollar arms deal. It will be presided over by a panel made up of three agencies led by the Public Protector, Selby Baqwa. The agencies are the Public Protector, the Auditor General and the National Directorate for Public Prosecutions. […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Sunday THE Sunday Times is leading with a story on a new book by Pick ‘n Pay tycoon Raymond Ackerman — which blames Sam Ramsamy of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (Nocsa) for losing South Africa’s bid to hold the Olympics in Cape Town in 2004. The paper’s […]
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LOCAL press reports on Friday said a massive oil spill has occurred on Ikevemor Island in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, threatening the livelihood of about 60 villages in the area. A representative for the residents of the affected villages, Jacob Oyanimigha, said the spill resulted from a ruptured pipeline maintenance facility owned by Shell Petroleum […]