Luanda | Friday THE Luanda government said this week it regrets a decision by South African diamond giant De Beers to suspend its activities in Angola over a contractual dispute. Reacting for the first time to the decision announced by De Beers a week ago, the statement said negotiations had been continuing in a cordial […]
Johannesburg | Saturday TRIBUTES have poured in for South Africa’s Aids icon Nkosi Johnson, who died in the early hours of the Friday morning, commending the courage of the 12-year-old boy who came to symbolise the fight against HIV/Aids and discrimination. The skeletally-thin Nkosi, South Africa’s longest surviving child Aids sufferer, died peacefully at his […]
TWENTY of every 100 pregnant women who attend ante-natal consultations in Mozambican health units are infected with HIV, the virus that causes the lethal disease Aids, according to Martinho Djedje, representative for the Coordinating Council of the Health Ministry, which has been meeting in Maputo since Monday. Djedje said the situation was made worse because […]
HILARY GUSH Johannesburg | Friday A long-running legal battle over the award of South Africa’s lucrative third mobile phone licence to Cell-C took a new twist on Friday, when losing bidder NextCom said it would settle the case out of court. But the row over whether the selection process for the licence winner was flawed […]
FORMER Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, Chester Crocker has been tipped as US envoy to Sudan, where he could lead American efforts in resolving Sudan’s 30-year-old civil war, press reports said in New York on Thursday. During his trip to Africa last week, Secretary of State, Colin Powell had indicated that the US administration […]
Cape Town | Friday THE partial listing of South Africa’s Telkom is on track for the fourth quarter of 2001, but will be timed to ensure that it enhances and does not undermine the company’s value, government officials said on Friday. ”We are ready for the planned listing of Telkom in the fourth quarter subject […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI Pretoria | Friday SOUTH Africa’s trade surplus widened in the first four months of the year on strong base metals exports, boosting prospects of a current account surplus in the second quarter of this year, figures showed on Thursday. The South African Revenue Services (SARS) said the country recorded a trade surplus of […]
Take cover everyone – Hollywood’s shameless rewriting of history has Peter Bradshaw yelping with dismay.
You gotta laugh. In the press release for Pearl Harbor, the new mega-budget flick about the surprise Japanese attack that destroyed the United States Pacific Fleet in 1941 and brought the US into World War II, there is a profile of producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Anthony Quinn, the Mexican-born Hollywood star who carved a niche playing larger-than-life, good-hearted ruffians, most famously Zorba the Greek, died in a Boston hospital yesterday, aged 86. His death, from respiratory failure, was announced by the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, Vincent "Buddy" Cianci. "I was proud to call him a friend," Mr Cianci said.