MINING, IT and financial stocks hoisted the South African bourse to a firmer close on a stronger gold price and US markets and a weaker currency, which benefits resources and rand-hedge stocks, dealers said. Anglo American proved a winner, lifting 2.72% or R13.20 to end on Thursday at R499. Dealers said Anglo, which is also […]
LUCIA MUTIKANI, Johannesburg | Tuesday THE rand fell to a new low of 8.20/dollar on Monday as investors took fright over speculation a bid for diamond giant De Beers, set to trigger large capital inflows, may fail. Fears are mounting that Anglo American’s joint bid for De Beers, expected to result in capital inflows of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday FORMER US president Bill Clinton will introduce to South Africa the concept of town hall meetings at a two-day conference on civil society this week – but the conference is being boycotted by trade unions and non-governmental organisations. The boycotters claim the conference will not represent grass-roots views. Clinton will […]
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A ridge of cowrie shells braided into her hair, the Amazon reaches out and smashes a rebellious slave to the ground with a brutal blow. The she-warrior is just one member of an elite army running slave raids for King Adanggaman, a powerful African monarch who seizes villagers to sell to European slave traders.
It’s a truism as old as Hollywood itself that no one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the public.
SOUTH African soldiers leaving for the Democratic Republic of the Congo for peacekeeping duties should do their country proud, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and SA National Defence Force chief General Siphiwe Nyanda said on Friday. “You leave as heroes. Come back as even bigger heroes,” Lekota said as they bade farewell to 90 SANDF members […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday AN international panel of high-ranking lawyers returning from a fact-finding visit to Zimbabwe reported on Monday that democracy and the rule of law there were “in the gravest peril.” In the report written for the International Bar Association (IBA) they said the government of President Robert Mugabe was deeply implicated […]
THE chief editor of Sudan’s independent newspaper Al-Rai Al-Akher has won an international award for her courage in reporting news. Amal Abbas, the newspaper’s editor, said she had received a fax at the weekend from the Washington-based International Women’s Media Foundation announcing they had granted her the bravery award for 2001. “I believe in freedom […]
THE Sudanese government said on Sunday it viewed favourably a recent call by the UN Human Rights Commission for a ceasefire in the country’s brutal three decade civil war between the Muslim north and Christian and animist south. “The government has always advocated a comprehensive ceasefire as a prelude to a negotiated settlement to the […]